Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

The Fix vol. 3: Deal of Fortune

“Bedlam:”  Two volumes. “Morning Glories:”  Ten volumes. “The Fix:”  Three volumes. What do all of these series have in common?  They’re all creator-owned series written by Nick Spencer which are all unlikely to see completion.  Apparently writing for Marvel Comics takes up so much of his time that he can’t work with the artists of […]

Star Wars: Thrawn

When Disney acquired Lucasfilm and kicked the “Star Wars” Expanded Universe to the curb, Grand Admiral Thrawn immediately rose to the top of everyone’s lists of characters who they expected to see re-incorporated into this new continuity.  It’s not hard to understand why as he was the main antagonist of Timothy Zahn’s “Heir to the […]

East of West vol. 8

If this series sticks to the estimated number of issues the story was planned to run from creators Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta, then it should be wrapping up in the next two volumes.  You’d expect the series to start ramping up the tension and action as its many players start to converge and make […]

Kingpin: Born Against

Sometimes a character in a corporate-owned superhero comic book can change.  More often than not they don’t and even when they do change, they’ll usually revert back to type in a couple years.  Writer Matthew Rosenberg has found a way to turn this trait to his advantage in this miniseries which, going by its title […]

X-Men: Red vol. 1 — The Hate Machine

I don’t think that the world was crying out for a third color-coded core “X-Men” title, but here we are.  Fortunately the title has a real advantage in that it’s coming to us from writer Tom Taylor after he delivered a very good six-volume run on “All-New Wolverine.”  Does Taylor’s first shot at the brass […]

Deadly Class vol. 7: Love Like Blood

The cliffhanger delivered at the end of vol. 6 was amazing for a few reasons, but mainly because of how it inverted my expectations of the kind of ending I usually expect from Rick Remender’s work.  So, do he and artist Wes Craig fully deliver on the promise of the tables being turned on everyone […]