Comic Picks by the Glick

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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra — Chaos Agent

The Empire may have fallen, but Doctor Chelli Aphra is still up to her old tricks.  Which is how she winds up in the custody of the New Republic’s Department of Artifacts and Archive Goods Retrieval, a.k.a. Daggers, after a botched job.  While the department’s head is inclined to ship Aphra out to a mining […]

Archie vs. Minor Threats

Sabrina Spellman has a dilemma:  She wants to bring her beau Harvey to the Witches & Warlocks ball, but he’s just a regular human.  Fortunately there’s a magical loophole that allows a witch to bring one guest of her choosing in exchange for an artifact of ultimate power.  Sabrina gets a lead one, and it […]

Mujina: Into the Deep vol. 4

Terumi is in the hospital, having been beaten within an inch of his life after trying to save Juno from the creeps who brought her into the city, took her rights card, and set her up for sex work.  Ubume is all ready to murder these guys for what they did, except her handler won’t […]

Fine Print vol. 3

Ostensibly, this series is about Lauren Thomas trying to figure out what her heart’s desire is and how it can be granted by the succubus and incubus that are competing to do so.  Except Lauren’s issues cause Leila (the succubus) to get some lingering scars when she has to rescue her from being sucked into […]

Ultimate Wolverine vol. 2: Logan

He was once the most feared asset of the Eurasian Republic, and their greatest weapon against the mutant freedom fighters in the Opposition.  Now, he’s back to who he was and Logan is fighting with his friends and comrades again against those who would see them all dead.  That means taking the fight to the […]

One-Punch Man vol. 33

In this volume:  Saitama and Garo fight.  A lot.  To the point where Garo gains cosmic awareness, powers up, and starts throwing punches with the strength of nuclear explosions.  He even whips out a Gamma Ray burst at one point that we’re told would annihilate the Earth if it touches the ground.  While this is […]

The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly

Geralt of Rivia’s travels have taken him to the snow-covered land of Dol Gwyn where he hopes to use his talents to make himself less broke.  If not through claiming the standing bounty on wolf pelts, then through the other more substantial bounty being offered for a vampire.  Corpses that have been slashed and drained […]

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum

W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo are the writer and artist, respectively, behind Image’s sleeper-hit weird horror series “Ice Cream Man.”  I’ve only read the first volume and it managed to not be all that weird, scary, or present me with a compelling reason to come back and check it out further.  That’s probably a […]

Mortal Thor vol. 1: No Gods, No Masters

In the last volume, Thor died!  He died so hard that this series had to be relaunched as “Mortal Thor” and he’s (almost) nowhere to be seen here.  You know who is here to be seen?  One Sigurd Jarlson, a bulky Swede who struggles with his English and tries his best to be a good […]