Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Ajin: Demi-Human vol. 16

So it turns out that THIS is the penultimate volume of “Ajin.”  Mangaka Gamon Sakurai sure had me fooled with the ending of the previous volume.  As it showed Kei getting up and starting the climb out of the sewer to face off against his nemesis one last time, I was ready to expect things […]

X-Ray Robot

Max Wilding is a scientist who believes that interdimensional travel is possible.  He also believes it’s really dangerous, or else he wouldn’t be working in a lab with his fellow scientists on a robot that can travel between them.  The good news is that when they finish it and turn it on, all of reality […]

Asadora! vol. 1

Getting new manga from Naoki Urasawa after years of nothing over here should’ve been a reason to celebrate.  Except that “Mujirushi” was a flawed attempt at telling a heist story with some nods to other media and politics that fell flat.  His short story collection “Sneeze!” was par for the course for these kinds of […]

Chu vol. 1: The First Course

I don’t want to say that the existence of this series is proof that we’re living in the worst timeline.  It’s just that if we were in a better timeline then I’d be writing about the fourth volume of writer John Layman and Afu Chan’s “Outer Darkness” instead of mourning its demise in this one.  […]

A Man Among Ye vol. 1

John and I have gone back and forth at one time or another about the idea of representation in comics.  I’m all for seeing diversity in stories regardless of the setup.  Which is why you’re reading a review of a new series about female pirates.  John isn’t against the idea of diversity at all.  He’s […]

Superman/Action Comics by Bendis vol. 3’s

These are the penultimate volumes in Bendis’ tenure on the Man of Steel.   It wasn’t supposed to play out this way, but after the massive changes at DC parent company AT&T/Time Warner, the writer might just be feeling lucky to still have a job there writing “Justice League.”  Still, it has to sting.  Especially […]