Comic Picks by the Glick

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DC Previews Picks: August 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: WildCATs #1 (of 6) This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time.  Warren Ellis may be wrapping up “The Wild Storm” in a few months, but he’s not done with his new take on the Wildstorm Universe.  We were already reintroduced to the new Wild Covert Action […]

Return of Wolverine

Logan is back!  And his first order of business is taking out the evil organization known as Soteira whose leader, Persephone, has manipulated his death to their advantage.  Writer Charles Soule pretty much plays it straight here, giving us a(n only mildly) amnesiac Wolverine who has to reconnect with his lost memories in a way […]

Uncanny X-Men: Disassembled

Readers with long memories (or ones with the ability to click this link and scroll to the bottom of the page) may recall that I was originally planning to make a podcast out of this volume.  If the fact that you’re reading my review of it now suggests that something has gone wrong, well, it […]

The Walking Dead vol. 31: The Rotten Core

We got a lot of little indications in the previous volume that things were not so great in the Commonwealth.  What made them interesting, however, was that it wasn’t clear whether or not they were indications that the largest community we’ve seen in the series yet was actually a dystopia or just a lot closer […]

She Could Fly vol. 1: Obsessive Propulsion

Luna Brewster is troubled.  Troubled in a way that’s dangerous for her and those around her.  She’s visions of hurting those closest to her and hears a voice that tells her to do these things.  Luna has kept all this from her parents and the well-meaning school counselor who’s dealing with her own issues as […]

The Wild Storm vol. 3

John Lynch travelling across America to warn the subjects of genetic experiments performed on them while he was director of International Operation.  That was the general gist of the solicitations for the issues collected in these volumes. Anyone familiar with the Wildstorm Universe who read them, however, could easily see that this was going to […]

Immortal Hulk vol. 2: The Green Door

I talked about the first volume of this series in the “On Horror” podcast.  The short version is that while this horror-infused “Hulk” title isn’t scary, writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett are still doing great, creative work best evidenced by one of its key revelations towards the end.  That would be the fact […]

Batman vol. 9: The Tyrant Wing

As the latest volume in Tom King’s “Batman” run, there’s not a whole lot of the title character written by the writer in it.  Three issues from the main series and a four-page short from the “Secret Files.” That’s it. In fact, this is the first volume where a writer other than King, Tom Taylor, […]