Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Our occasional trip through DC crossoverville now brings us to Millennium, the 1987/88 event that has bafflingly recently [...]

With Batman R.I.P. past the halfway mark, Grant Morrison isn’t wasting any time. The question implied by the previous issue’s cliff-hanger is answered almost immediately, as Wayne talks to statues, stabs himself in the mouth and concludes that he is an inevitable result of the city he protects. Batman has gone stark, raving mad… and [...]

Compared to the bombast with which a new volume of the Authority is traditionally launched, this is a much more muted affair, with the team lowering its sights to simple survival. However, the real test for any take on the book is whether the creatives have been able to bring their own spin to its [...]

There are a number of factors contributing to Final Crisis just… not really working as a big “event” book yet. It’s fairly typical Morrison storytelling, in that it’s slow-burning, and allusive, and multi-layered, and in that many of the early pages will only really begin to unfold themselves properly upon a second read once the [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Alright, I’ve put it off for long enough. Let’s do it. Let’s look at Armageddon 2001. DC’s ill-fated [...]

The Wildcats franchise embodies any writer’s nightmare: trying to follow genius. Joe Casey turned a standard superhero team book into a brilliant corporate espionage tale, as the Halo Corporation gave the fruits of its alien technology to the world, in the face of opposition from every source of political or financial authority. Low sales forced [...]