Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Image Advance Arrivals: December 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where the Body Was HC Big surprise:  Another OGN from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips gets the top spot this month!  It may seem obvious and predictable that I keep giving this spot to new work from these creators.  However, when they’ve consistently been delivering greatness (or at least above-averageness) for over two […]

Marvel Penguin Picks: December 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Venom by Ewing (& Gronbekk) vol. 5:  Predestination The solicitations just have Al Ewing’s name in the title, but it’s been clear from the last few solicitations that Torunn Gronbekk is now filling the co-writing role that Ram V was at the start of this series.  While she did a decent job of […]

Pandora in the Crimson Shell vol. 16

It’s safe to say that in the last volume shit got real.  Phobos’ programming was re-written by Poseidon’s leader and she was sent to attack Nene and Clarion.  The latter was doing her best to fight off her sister’s assault, but it wasn’t enough.  Facing imminent defeat partway through this volume, she looks into her […]

Plush

Devin Fulcher hasn’t been having a good time as of late.  It turns out that the woman he loves, who is also his fiancee, has been sleeping with one of the biggest asshole cops in town.  Worse still is that she’s now pregnant with his kid, and her father, the town sheriff, is still insisting […]