Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Savage Avengers vol. 1: City of Sickles

Would you care to take a guess which “Avengers” series isn’t present (save for one issue) on Marvel Unlimited?  I blame Conan since the Cimmerian’s other Marvel-published comics aren’t on that app either.  So that means I had to buy this volume to see what kind of threat would have him team up with Wolverine, […]

Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1

I’ve read a lot of Cullen Bunn’s comic book writing over the years.  Some of it good, some of it bad, and some that I can just feel indifferent towards.  Tyler Crook, on the other hand, is someone who has always delivered enjoyably creepy art and acquitted himself well when he took over from Guy […]

Asadora! vol. 2

It was one thing for the opening pages of vol. 1 to imply that this was going to be a story about a girl and her relationship with a giant monster that was clearly Not Godzilla.  It wasn’t until the very end of that volume where it became clear that’s  exactly what this story was […]

Suicide Squad: Bad Blood

Was it a proper run on the title that got cut short?  Or was it meant to be a ten-issue maxi-series?  That’s what I’d like to know about writer Tom Taylor and artist Bruno Redondo’s (with Daniel Sampere) run on “Suicide Squad.”  I was looking forward to reading this run thanks to Taylor’s track record, […]

Inkblot vol. 1

Once upon a time there was a great family of explorers whose head broke through the walls separating the six major realms of the world and earned his name Xenthos Voidbreaker.  His family then went on to explore these realms for conquest, peace, discovery, and knowledge.  One of them, The Seeker (a.k.a. Bookworm), decided to […]