Comic Picks by the Glick

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Stray Dogs

Sophie is a dog, and she’s just found herself a new home.  There are plenty of other dogs there and most of them seem pretty nice.  This home also has a master who feeds them all, looks after them, and forbids them from going in his special room.  It seems like Sophie could get used […]

S.W.O.R.D. vol. 1

The first time we got a series about the Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Division, it didn’t last all that long.  In fact, it was cut down from an ongoing title to a miniseries in the middle of its first arc.  Which was a shame as that first arc was really great and I’d have […]

Serial vol. 1: The Glass Tomb

Zoe has been ten years old for most of her life.  That’s because she was possessed by a demon that kept her young and warped her personality to the point where, now that she’s free of it, she’s still a serial killer.  This should all be familiar to people who have read Terry Moore’s “Rachel […]

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt vol. 16

Your enjoyment of this volume will likely depend on how you feel towards Darryl Lorenz. Do you feel that the ex-Zeon pilot who, along with his comrades, has allied with the Nanyang Alliance is a tragic figure?  That he sacrificed so much of himself for so little only to find a true family with a […]

Batman Black & White (vol. 5)

“Batman Black & White” has been one of the most consistently successful anthology series in comics for a couple decades now.  There’s something about the appeal of telling a “Batman” story in black and white (and shades of gray) that tends to bring out the best in a lot of creators.  Vol. 5, however, isn’t […]

The Good Asian vol. 1

On the surface, Edison Hark has it a lot better than most Chinese-American citizens circa 1936.  Not only is his surrogate father Mason Carroway a very rich businessman, but those family connections helped him become a cop out in Honolulu.  However, Edison is now back stateside after his brother Frankie told him that their dad […]

DC Solicitation Sneaks: January 2022

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Nice House on the Lake vol. 1 I picked the first issue of this maxi-series for this slot a while back and now I’m giving its first volume the same treatment despite the fact that I haven’t read any of it yet.  What gives?  Well, in a slate of solicitations that runs […]

Drifting Dragons vol. 9

The dragon the Quin Zaza was facing off against at the end of vol. 8 was special in a couple of ways.  We find out here that not only is it one of the four legendary dragons that roam the skies, but it’s also the one that took down the Quin Zaza and its original […]