Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Superman: Kal-El Returns

If you’re like me and you enjoyed “The Warworld Saga,” this is the follow up to that as we find out what happens when (wait for it…) Kal-El returns to Earth.  First on his agenda is making sure that the inhabitants of Warworld are now safe as they orbit the Earth as well as from […]

The Ones

This comic comes with a cover price of $25. It’s not worth paying $25 to read. That’s partly because it’s only 152 pages. It’s mostly true because it’s just kind of “okay” in terms of quality. However, if you’re like me and you’re a fan of Bendis who also found it in a half-off bin […]

Where Monsters Lie

The gated community of Wilmhurst is an exclusive one even by the regular standards of these things.  After all, it’s made up of every kind of slasher movie villain type as they cool their heels between rampages.  The unkillable monster.  The family of cannibal hillbillies.  The serial killer whose spirit is trapped in a doll.  […]

Local Man vol. 2: The Dry Season

Jack Xaver, formerly the superhero known as Crossjack, may still be hated by his fellow townspeople, but he’s marginally less hated by its sheriff after what they went through with Camo Crusader in the previous volume.  Which is why he’s asking Jack to look into the death of a high school girl whose autopsy says […]

DC Solicitation Sneaks: August 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Joker:  The Man Who Stopped Laughing – The Complete Series One Joker was bad enough.  Now there are two and they’ve both got very different ideas about how to get back on top of Gotham’s criminal underworld.  One thinks that the best way to do it is to assemble an army of […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: August 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Fortune & Glory:  The Musical I’ve written and talked before about how I think the original “Fortune & Glory” is one of the best things that Bendis has ever done.  His adventures in the screen trade in dealing with attempts to make movies out of “Goldfish” and “Torso” contain some of his most […]

Marvel Penguin Picks: August 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Thrawn:  Alliances I’ve become more selective about what “Star Wars” comics I buy from Marvel over the years simply because they publish too many to make keeping up with all of them an affordable and/or  reasonable proposition.  However, when their publication schedule did make such a thing feasible, one of the comics I […]

Image Advance Arrivals: August 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation Feral vol. 1 Elsie, Patch, and Lord Fluffy Britches are three cats who have spent most of their lives as indoor pets.  That suddenly changes one day when they find themselves outside and on the run from all manner of beasts during a nightmarish rabies outbreak.  Now, instead of having to worry about […]

The Sacrificers vol. 1

This is the start of a new series written by Rick Remender.  Does that mean we’re getting something that’s good and makes me want to read more?  Promising but with issues?  Depressing enough to get me to stop reading the series after one volume?  Or something that shows the writer trying to evolve his established […]

Weird Work

When Lady Haste was arrested for attempted murder, it was thought to be the beginning of the end for organized crime in Stellar City.  That turned out to not be the case at all as a series of gangland slayings have shown that control of the underworld is still very much up for grabs.  This […]