Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Hellboy: The Midnight Circus

I have a pretty good idea of how this new original graphic novel came about.  Either Mike Mignola or someone at Dark Horse realized that with the current schedule of “Hellboy in Hell” there wasn’t going to be a new “Hellboy” collection coming out this year.  So Mignola calls up Duncan Fegredo and now we’ve […]

New Avengers by Bendis vol. 5

The reason this is coming so late is because I somehow missed this when it showed up on Diamond’s weekly shipping lists.  There was this nagging thought on my head, “When is this volume going to come out in paperback?” that I didn’t get around to checking out until this week.  Imagine my surprise when […]

Wolfsmund vol. 2

All those nice things I said about the cover of the first volume?  Yeah, none of that applies here.  Instead of something to set this apart from the crowd, we get some tawdry pseudo-bondage that thrusts the tits of the main female character into the reader’s face.  You get the feeling that the first volume […]

Daredevil by Mark Waid vol. 4

At this point there’s very little to say about this series beyond the familiar refrain that it continues to provide a great example of the minimum standard of quality a superhero title needs to have in order to survive in this market.  Waid and artist Chris Samnee (with guest artist Michael Allred in this volume) […]

Lazarus vol. 1

Greg Rucka has been away from the creator-owned game for too long.  While I’ve enjoyed his superhero work on titles like “Detective Comics,” “52,” “Wolverine,” and “The Punisher” (except for that last volume) it’s his work apart from that genre that has been the most memorable.  If you’ve never read either volume of “Whiteout” or […]

The Black Beetle vol. 1: No Way Out

While the pairing of writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock made “Batman:  The Black Mirror” something that was certainly worth a look, the collection’s other artist was an unknown quality.  I liked Jock well enough that the thought of having an unknown named Francesco Francavilla handle the in-between chapters didn’t sound all that appealing.  My […]

Image Previews Picks: January 2014

More good news for the company:  “The Walking Dead” #115, the tenth anniversary issue that kicks off the “All Out War” arc and comes with 15 interlocking covers, is the best selling issue of the year (so far, at least) with around 350K orders.  New titles “Velvet,” by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting and “Pretty […]

Real vol. 12

How good is this series?  So good that when it devotes the majority of a volume to its least interesting protagonist and storyline, the series still manages to be pretty compelling. I refer to aspiring wheelchair basketball ace Kiyoharu Togawa, who takes the spotlight again after several volumes in the background.  Though he clearly has […]