Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Image Previews Picks: May 2015

This is one of those months where the company launches a lot of new titles.  Which… doesn’t make it too different from most of the past ones I guess.  Anyway, Ellis and Shalvey’s “Injection” debuts here along with a few other titles that sound like they have potential.  There are a few that don’t, but […]

The Activity vol. 3

If you like reading about the exploits of military personnel who are really good at what they do, and subscribe to certain political views, then you’ll likely be entirely satisfied by this third (and final?) volume of “The Activity.”  After a flashback to Fallujah during the second Iraq War, things return to the present as […]

DC Previews Picks: May 2015

I was prepared to talk about the new titles arriving post-”Convergence” in June, but then I read that “Lucifer” was getting a pilot order from Fox today.  Now I really like the Mike Carey-written “Sandman” spinoff that effectively hails from the land of “far better than it has any right to be.”  The problem here […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: May 2015

There’s been some advance word on a couple of titles that bear looking out for from this company later this year: After being announced at last year’s Anime Expo, the first omnibus edition of “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” arrives in August.  (So, two solicitations from now.)  Easily one of the best manga still being […]

Stray Bullets vol. 6: Killers

As it turns out, you can go home again. After a very lengthy gap between issues, David Lapham released issue #41 of “Stray Bullets” and completed the fifth volume of his signature crime series.  He then bundled it, and the other forty issues in an omnibus edition that wound up being my favorite comic from […]

Black Science vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere

If nothing else (and I admit that’s selling it short), the first volume of “Black Science” had an unexpected and game-changing twist at its end.  After jumping through several words with his friends, family, and co-workers, brilliant scientist Grant McKay met his end crushed under rubble.  In his final moments, he begged Kadir — his […]

Avengers by Hickman: Time Runs Out vol. 1

In what will no doubt come as a complete and utter surprise to people who have been following my reviews of this particular “Avengers/New Avengers” run, I wound up really liking this latest volume!  Essentially the “beginning of the end” for Hickman’s run, it very much lives up to the title sentiment as things go […]