Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Avengers: No Road Home

I don’t think the world was crying out for a sequel to the thoroughly alright “Avengers:  No Surrender,” which served to wrap up the various “Avengers” series Al Ewing, Jim Zub, and Mark Waid were writing at the time, but we got one anyway.  “No Road Home,” however is the exceedingly rare time when a […]

Die vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

It’s a brand-new series written by Kieron Gillen!  With art from the immensely talented Stephanie Hans!  And it has a literal fantasy RPG setting! What could possibly prevent me from declaring this one of the best comics before I’ve even read it?  Common sense really — having little is not the same as having none […]

West Coast Avengers vol. 2: City of Evils

You may have already heard that Kelly Thompson will be the writer of “Deadpool’s” latest ongoing series come November.  I’m hoping it’s a big smash and boosts her profile accordingly. Much in the same way that “The Immortal Hulk” has done for Al Ewing.  Because if that happens then maybe she’ll be able to do […]

Avengers by Jason Aaron vol. 3: War of the Vampires

This volume gets off to an amazing start with a one-off issue that spotlights the Iron Fist of 1,000,000 B.C.  Actually, she’s not called that at first because she winds up being the very first… in probably the most ignominious way possible.  Sentenced to die for teaching cavemen the city of K’un-Lun’s greatest secrets (read: […]

The Dreaming vol. 1: Pathways & Emanations

I think it’s safe to say that “The Sandman Universe” was meant to save Vertigo.  A series of titles spun off from the imprint’s most-loved, -acclaimed, -iconic series — done with Neil Gaiman’s blessing and input — that would revitalize the imprint’s flagging fortunes and usher in a new golden age.  Maybe that’s overselling it […]

East of West vol. 9

As far as penultimate volumes go, this is ahead of “Curse Words” but behind “The Wicked + The Divine.”  I do appreciate the fact that vol. 9 of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s opus is still an accessible read.  This is in the sense that it never felt like I needed to go back and […]

Usagi Yojimbo vol. 33: The Hidden

(What, no podcast?  John and my schedules didn’t line up over the weekend, or during the week.  But don’t worry, my thoughts on Bendis’ start at DC will be here this time next week.  In the meantime…) It’s the end of an era as this is the last volume of “Usagi Yojimbo” which will be […]