It’s well-known that the 1990s weren’t kind to comics. A wave of 80s-inspired grit washed through the industry, and Spider-Man in particular suffered ridiculously under the weight of it. As increasingly dark storylines brushed his supporting cast aside and sent Peter himself into a downward spiral, the convoluted and editorially botched Clone Saga was conceived [...]

After the success of the really-rather-good 52, and the failure of the catastrophically-bad Countdown, it’s fair to say the jury’s still out on DC’s grand “weekly comic” experiment. So the question is, can Trinity push the balance back towards the favourable side?

The omens are good, in that lessons have clearly been learned from what [...]

Mighty Avengers, (or as CBR review jokester Hannibal Tabu would put it, the Republican Avengers) has, unlike it’s sister-comic, been largely staying out of crossovers-ville. There was that ill-advised tie-in with New Avengers, and we’re getting frequent skrull references, but with regards to the actual plot of the issues, it’s well out of the territory [...]

So, it’s been a couple of months now and Seb and I have (mostly) kept our heads down, dutifully reviewing a comic a day for a fair few weeks with very little industry sarcasm and speculation. Well, not much anyway. Still, it’s not enough for us. We want a place where we can talk about [...]

Every Wednesday we take turns to delve into our trusty longboxes, pluck out a dusty back issue at random, and give you our thoughts. We’ll also try and place it in the context of the time it was originally published.
Now this is an odd beast that you don’t see a lot of nowadays - a fill-in [...]