Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Dark Horse Previews Picks: December 2014

There really isn’t that much to talk about with the publisher right now.  It’s been one of those months.  However, they did announce at Kumoricon that they’ll be releasing the “Fate/Zero” manga that was adapted from the prequel novel for the popular series.  Adaptations like this are usually of inconsistent quality, so I don’t see […]

DC Previews Picks: December 2014

It was recently noted by DC co-publisher Dan Didio that it has been almost ten years since the “Countdown to Infinite Crisis” one-shot that heralded one of the publisher’s most successful crossovers.  “Success” in this case being defined in the amount of sales it racked up along with the buzz it generated.  The actual quality […]

Daredevil by Mark Waid vol. 6

What we get here is a real letdown compared to the excellence of the previous volume.  That’s mainly because Marvel decided that this collection could be better served by reprinting the Dardevil team-up from Waid’s run on “Indestructible Hulk.”  If you’ll recall, I found that particular story to be fairly underwhelming.  It’s a shame that […]

All-New X-Men vol. 4: All-Different

This volume has a bit more going on in it than the previous ones.  In the four issues collected here from the main series, the cast deals with the fallout of “Battle of the Atom,” and tangles with the Purifiers.  Then, to pad things out, “X-Men:  Gold” is also collected here.  It’s a one-shot featuring […]

Silverfish

Mia Fleming hates Suzanne, her new stepmom.  So when she goes along with Mia’s dad on his annual mountain retreat, Mia makes it her business to find out just what kind of person has wormed her way into her family.  With the help of some friends, and a stolen addressbook, they find out that Suzanne […]

Lazarus vol. 2

After introducing us to Forever Carlyle and her world in the first volume, writer Greg Rucka starts digging further into it with this new collection.  We see her the rigorous training she underwent to become the Lazarus of Family Carlyle and how she employs those skills to avert a terrorist threat in the present day. […]

Dan the Unharmable vol. 1

Unlike a lot of other publishers, Avatar doesn’t seem to place many restrictions on sexual or violent content in its titles.  I imagine that kind of freedom is how they get writers like Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, David Lapham, Kieron Gillen, and Alan Moore to write comics for them.  “No limits” is an appealing thing […]