And so Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz’s year on Booster Gold comes to an end… and damned if, surprisingly, it hasn’t turned out to be really rather good. There have been stutters – the Barbara Gordon issue wasn’t as clever as it thought it was, and the “alternate universe” storyline went on a bit too [...]

DC appear to have been taking a looser approach to continuity of late. Perhaps it’s an acknowledgement that a succession of Crises have failed to sort things out once and for all, or simply that DC’s “shared universe” has always been somewhat less grounded in reality than Marvel’s, but I’ve noticed a growing attitude of [...]

Continuity, they say, can be both a tool and a trap. But whether or not you’re the sort of person who will just write what they please and hang trying to make it tie in perfectly with everything that’s gone before, there are certain rules that everyone knows to stick to. Such as - don’t [...]

As I’ve mentioned in the past, Green Lantern is a series I’ve always found more interesting in concept than in execution. Despite the odd excellent story here and there (usually involving Alan Moore and/or Dave Gibbons, or when teamed up with Green Arrow), I’ve often felt that a great idea has been wasted on some [...]

It’s been a fair while since I read a DCU comic - almost nothing since the end of 52, in fact. Still, even someone as largely disinterested in DC Universe comics can’t fail to notice that big things are happening. DC’s second weekly series, Countdown, has ended, apparently without getting to the place it was [...]

And so Booster Gold continues to confound expectations by being… well… quite good, actually. Even those of us who followed him into his latest solo title through sheer character loyalty (from either Justice League International, 52 or both) surely didn’t see that one coming. But Johns and Katz have found a perfect niche for him [...]