Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Moonshine vol. 2

Apparently Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso decided not to take a mulligan with this series and returned for a second volume.  I wasn’t really inclined to give it a shot after how the first volume turned out, but this one was on sale for 50% off so I figured I’d give it a shot.  It […]

Fantastic Four by Dan Slott vols. 1 & 2

Even if Slott doesn’t reinvent the wheel with these two volumes, there’s still fun to be had.  Vol. 1, “Fourever,” does the dirty work of getting the family back together after years of corporate-mandated separation.  Reed, Sue, Valeria, Franklin, and the Future Foundation’s efforts to rebuild the multiverse come to an abrupt, and needlessly harsh, […]

Justice League vol. 2: Graveyard of Gods

Two volumes in and there are certainly things I like about Scott Snyder (and James Tynion IV’s) run on “Justice League” so far.  Chief among them is the fact that each volume is a smaller part of a much larger story that’s being told. We can see that in the opening issue which follows Luthor’s […]

Immortal Hulk vol. 3: Hulk in Hell

Sadly, this isn’t the volume where we get to see Hulk punch Mephisto in the face.  The “hell” that Hulk and the rest of the cast were pulled into at the end of the previous volume is a more desolate place which is filled with the talking shells of the dead people closest to them.  […]

DC Previews Picks: September 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harleen #1 I was very tempted to pick something else for this spot, until I realized that I’d rather wait to read that in softcover.  Even though I’ll be waiting to read this new Black Label miniseries when it’s collected I’ll be buying it when it comes out.  Regardless of whether it’s in […]

Image Previews Picks: June 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rumble #16 Wait, WHAT!? That’s right, #15 isn’t the last issue of this series.  I keep expecting the hammer to come down with each arc, but I’m glad to be proven wrong here.  There’s a catch with this latest issue, however. It’s the start of an anthology arc featuring short stories about the […]

Marvel Previews Picks: June 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man:  Life Story When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, Peter Parker was 15 years old.  57 years later and he’s… what, twenty-something in his comics right now?  Yes, aging does work kind of funny in superhero comics that have been published continuously for that long.  But what if Spider-Man had aged in real time […]