Manga and Comic Reviews
I had heard two things about Warren Ellis’ newest series prior to reading it. The first was that it felt VERY MUCH like his defining series “Transmetropolitan.” The second was that it didn’t really start to differentiate itself and become interesting in its own right until issue eight, the last one collected in this volume. […]
In a break from tradition, such as it is, I’m not going to talk about three series this week. Instead, I’m just going to focus on one that’s been nagging at the back of my head for a little while now. “Oishinbo vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine,” written by Tetsu Kariay and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki, […]
I don’t plan things this way, but the stuff I picked up last week turned out to be three more volumes in series that I’ve been reading for a while. So while it goes without saying that none of these represent a good jumping on point for their series (well.. “Criminal” is a special case), […]
The podcast will be up soon (by “soon” I mean in the next 24 hours or so). In the meantime, I’ve got more thoughts on some recent trade paperbacks: The Immortal Iron Fist vol. 3: The Book of The Iron Fist I really enjoyed the first two volumes of “The Immortal Iron Fist,” written by […]
So, I heard Batman died last week. Yeah. I don’t belive it either, and while I could go on about how comic book deaths never last (most are speculating that Mr. Wayne will escape death the same way Shiloh Norman did in another Grant Morrison comic, “Seven Soldiers of Victory”) but someone else summed up […]
No podcast this week, but we’re all set for the next few. In the meantime — reviews! Runaways: Dead End Kids Back when Brian K. Vaughan announced that he was leaving “Runaways,” the series that he created along with Adrian Alphona, I remarked to the owner of the comic shop I frequent that the series […]
You’ve probably noticed that there was a delay between the posting of episodes #20 and #21. The reason is that there is a publication change here. “Comic Picks by the Glick” and “Generic Anime Podcast” are going to a bi-weekly schedule for the foreseeable future. There should be a new podcast up this week discussing […]
The date that I’m writing this is July 4, 2023 and I’ve FINALLY transferred all of the old posts I made to this new site. Fitting that it happened on Independence Day as I’m now free from devoting a half hour each day to cutting, pasting, posting and doing minor revisions on the thousands of […]