Comic Picks by the Glick

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The Wild Storm vol. 2

The cold war between the organizations which watch over Earth and Space is starting to heat up.  International Operations thinks that Skywatch is making a move on them because the tech used by Jacob Marlow’s Wild Covert Action Team is suspiciously like that group’s.  Never mind the fact that Angela Spica, who is now with […]

Empowered and the Soldier of Love

One thing that never ceases to annoy me in comics is when we get an extended sequence where people are talking in a foreign (or even made-up) language without a translation.  Yes, O great writer, we see that you’re proficient enough in this language to write in it for an extended period, but it doesn’t […]

Thanos Wins (by Cates & Shaw)

No, this isn’t “Thanos vol. 3:  Thanos Wins.” So successful were these six issues from new writer Cates, and his “God Country” collaborator Geoff Shaw, that this volume was rebranded (on the copyright pages at least) with his name.  Deservedly so, if the sales of this arc were any indication. This latest “Thanos” series was […]

X-Men: Blue & Gold — And this round goes to…

The quality has been going back and forth on the two “X-Men” flagship titles.  While I thought the first volume of “Gold” offered some welcome nostalgia to the ho-hum drama of “Blue,” things quickly reversed themselves.  “Blue” found its groove in its subsequent two volumes while the nostalgic fun of “Gold” grew more rickety in […]

Weapon X vol. 2: Modern Warfare

Now that they’re no longer on the trail of the Hulkverine, what’s a random assemblage of morally flexible and violent mutants to do?  How about head south of the border to Santo Marco where the government is violently suppressing mutants through use of a suborned Nuke platoon.  Warpath is all for it and takes point […]

Star Wars: Poe Dameron vol. 4 — Legend Found

I’ve mentioned before how this series has felt hamstrung by its inability to really get out there and explore the state of the “Star Wars” universe prior to “The Force Awakens.”  Now imagine a comic that has to limit itself further by placing itself within the confines of the “Poe Dameron” series itself. That’s the […]

Doctor Strange by Donny Cates vol. 1: God of Magic

Cates is the new hotness at Marvel thanks to his work on “Thanos,” “Venom,” and to a lesser extent his brief run on this title.  I say this because in all likelihood “God of Magic” came about because Marvel wanted to keep “Doctor Strange” going through their “Legacy” initiative but needed someone to kill some […]

Dept. H vol. 3: Decompressed

“Decompressed” is a funny title for this volume.  That’s because writer/artist Matt Kindt does nothing but put pressure on his protagonist, Mia, and on the reader as well.  Mia is still trying to figure out who killed her father, Hari, in the undersea base he was working at. Keep in mind that said base is […]

Royal City vol. 2: Sonic Youth

The first volume of this series worked because of the unique angle writer/artist Jeff Lemire found to address the long-standing shared grief the members of the Pike family felt over the death of their youngest member, Tommy.  Except for oldest sibling and prodigal son Pat, each family member chose to remember Tommy in an idealized […]

Image Previews Picks: September 2018

“Invincible” was a pretty great comic.  So great that it might wind up having two concurrent adaptations to two different mediums.  That Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had snatched up the rights to a film version and were in the process of developing it broke last year.  Now, Amazon has announced that they’ll be producing […]