Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Vinland Saga vol. 7

Is this it? Kodansha Comics has already gone on record as saying that this will be the last volume of “Vinland Saga” published in the U.S. unless sales pick up.  So if you like this series and haven’t already picked up all seven volumes, you’d better go do it now!  If you haven’t, then vol. […]

Image Previews Picks: April 2016

I doubt we’ll ever see the original artist of “The Walking Dead,” Tony Moore, ever come back to that series for anything besides a variant cover.  Meanwhile, over at “Invincible,” original artist Corey Walker just can’t seem to stop making return trips to that title after all these years.  He usually shows up to pinch-hit […]

DC Previews Picks: April 2016

“Rebirth.”  That’s the buzzword from DC publisher Dan Didio on Twitter, leading most everyone to think that the company is planning ANOTHER relaunch later this year.  Rich Johnston seems to think that this will involve another round of new #1 issues and a tighter focus between the company’s TV and film projects.  This year will […]

Die Wergelder vol. 1

Hiroaki Samura has done a couple series since wrapping up his epic masterpiece “Blade of the Immortal.”  This one is just the first to reach our shores.  Expecting something on the same level of brilliance as his signature series would just be an exercise in setting myself up for disappointment.  Yet this is likely to […]

The Private Eye

One of these days I’ll eventually migrate to reading comics digitally instead of in print.  Not yet, though.  Not when titles like this, originally published online in a “pay what you want” metric can still find their way into being a physical product.  (Particularly when the way involves a handshake deal between Brian K. Vaughan […]

Star Wars: Darth Vader vol. 2 — Shadows & Secrets

Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s series was the standout amongst Marvel’s initial round of “Star Wars” collections and this second volume shows that its quality wasn’t a fluke.  Vader continues the rebuilding of his power base with an ambitious heist of a deceased crimelord’s fortune from the Empire.  Though the act, masterminded by his associate […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: April 2016

There’s a new volume of a certain manga being advance-solicited here!  That’s right, after a year and a half of waiting, Dark Horse is finally releasing vol. 16 of “Neon Genesis Evangelion:  The Shinji Ikari Raising Project.”  Can you feel the excitement here!  ARE YOU NOT YET ENTERTAINED!?!?!? …Ugh.  Well, at least this means the […]