Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future

The title character is part of an elite squad working for a corporate entity in the near future where these kinds of organizations call the shots.  It’s the job of Madi and her team to take down potential threats to it using cyberwarfare and actual warfare.  After a recent job winds up leaving them paid, […]

Criminal: The Knives

Did you hear?  “Criminal” is going to be a streaming series debuting on Amazon Prime later this year. That right there makes it easy to be a little cynical about this volume.  What better reason for “The Knives” to exist than to synergize with the upcoming show.  Particularly after the previous “Criminal” story, “Cruel Summer,” […]

Star Wars: Ewoks

After helping the Rebellion defeat the Empire, the Ewoks were prepared to go back to their rural forest life taking care of each other and fending off threats to their village.  Then the Empire came back.  The ambitious General Koyatta has a plan to secure a secret weapons cache on the moon, and his future […]

Living Hell

Jerome Jameel has a secret.  This part time bartender is a former deity who became trapped in Hell as a demon, and then escaped to our plane twenty years ago.  He met a good, if troubled, woman, they got married, had a kid and now struggle to make ends meet as they live a loving […]

Creature Commandos

You’re the United States Government and you need a deniable op done quickly, quietly, and with as few operatives as possible.  Who do you get?  No, not the whackjobs of Task Force X, you need The Creature Unit.  It’s a work-in-progress cell made up of the most deniable operatives there are:  Monsters!  Under the iron […]

Feral vol. 3: Nine Lives

Vol. 2 ended with the main cast trapped in a car that had just crashed with its driver nothing more than a smear on the pavement.  What’s more is that Patch, still infected after the events of vol. 1, had just found them again.  Things seemed bad back then, but Elsie, Gigi, Lord, and the […]

Minor Threats: The Brood

Napoleon Archimedes has it all.  He’s the arch-nemesis of the world’s greatest superhero and has confounded her and her comrades time and time again.  As  industrialist Stanley Tyler, he makes a fortune providing the tech the world runs on.  In addition to being married to the greatest assassin in the world, he also has three […]

Namor: Last King of Atlantis

Namor is in prison, but he’s fine with that.  With Atlantis in ruins and its people in diaspora – largely through his own fault – its former king is willing to resign himself to an above-ground prison with no intent to return to the sea ever again.  Until he learns of the war that has […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: December 2025

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Uri Tupka and the Gods:  Another Tale From Lands Unknown It turns out we didn’t have to wait that long for creator Mike Mignola to return to his newest fictional universe.  This second installment of “From Lands Unknown” is set to arrive a little over a year after the first and may be […]

Image Advance Arrivals: December 2025

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lazarus vol. 8 Whenever a series goes on hiatus, it’s usually done with the expectation that it’ll return.  Of course, saying something is on “hiatus” is also sometimes the polite way of saying that it’s never coming back and you shouldn’t get your hopes up.  The longer something remains on hiatus, the chances […]