Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Batman: The Long Halloween — The Last Halloween

“Batman:  The Long Halloween” and its follow-up “Dark Victory” are rightly regarded as classics within the character’s canon.  Both maxiseries from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale told year-long stories set within the early days of The Dark Knight’s career as he worked to stop serial killers that were ripping apart Gotham’s underworld.  They […]

The Ends

Four months ago, Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez fell in love.  Then Jennifer had to go home to her “old fashioned” family to wait for when she could see Angelo again.  That chance came when her grandfather fell and injured himself and she readily volunteered to help nurse him for the summer – not too […]

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt vol. 25

Io and Darryl’s battle continues – inside the Solar Ray!  One fights to destroy it, the other fights to protect it and they’re going to do their best to take out the other guy in the process.  It seems that this conflict has all come down to them.  Until it hasn’t.  With the Federation forces […]

Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman

Members of the Super-and-Bat-Families have suffered through a multitude of transformations for various reasons over the years.  This time, Superman and his son Jon, and Batman and his son Damien have all been transformed into corgis because Trinity (age 12) wanted to cheer up Trinity (age 6) by showing a bit of Trinity’s (age 18) […]

The War

It’s been said that the only thing keeping nuclear war from breaking out is that The People In Charge just don’t want it to.  If it breaks out and wrecks everything then what happens to cat videos on YouTube?  Buying an awesome car, tricking it out, and then racing it down a neighborhood street in […]

The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Collected Fragments vol. 1

This series hasn’t just been popular enough to spawn multiple anime adaptations, but spinoff manga series as well.  While I’m sure that they were all done with mangaka Kore Yamazaki’s approval, I’ve never felt that Japan’s quality control on these things is really any better than America’s.  So I’ve been skipping them and I was […]