Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Thanos Rising

The characters of the Marvel Universe are a diverse and flexible bunch.  This is to the point where if a writer wanted to, they could tell a pretty straightforward genre story with the right one.  Garth Ennis has told war stories with Nick Fury, Bendis and Brubaker have done legal thrillers with Daredevil, the latter […]

Hellboy: The Midnight Circus

I have a pretty good idea of how this new original graphic novel came about.  Either Mike Mignola or someone at Dark Horse realized that with the current schedule of “Hellboy in Hell” there wasn’t going to be a new “Hellboy” collection coming out this year.  So Mignola calls up Duncan Fegredo and now we’ve […]

New Avengers by Bendis vol. 5

The reason this is coming so late is because I somehow missed this when it showed up on Diamond’s weekly shipping lists.  There was this nagging thought on my head, “When is this volume going to come out in paperback?” that I didn’t get around to checking out until this week.  Imagine my surprise when […]