Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Nightwing: Fear State

I had figured “Get Grayson” was the next volume in writer Tom Taylor’s run on “Nightwing,” until I saw this.  “Fear State” collects the next three issues of his run, the “Nightwing” annual, and a Christmas-themed story from “Batman: Urban Legends” from writer Tini Howard.  So how is it?  Every bit as good as you’d […]

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957

Demonic possession in suburbia.  A restless spirit haunting a rural graveyard.  A rookie agent hoping to spot his first cryptid.  Assaults from a possessed tiger in India.  Reports about a haunted sawmill in Oregon.  A seance to contact the spirit of a devil-worshipper.  These are the things that Hellboy, his father Trevor Bruttenholm, and various […]

DC vs. Vampires vol. 1

“I, Vampire” Andrew Bennett has braved the sunlight to bring an urgent message to the Justice League.  That message being that vampires are coming out of the shadows to take over the world, and they’ve started with the Injustice League.  Now the DCU faces a crisis without Lex Luthor, but with all of his fellow […]

Where the Body Was

One of the reasons the “Best of 2023” podcast took so long to arrive this year was because of this graphic novel.  It took a while to make its way to me from the source that I ordered it from and I didn’t want to start on the list until I had time to read […]

Klik Klik Boom

Sprout grew up far from prying eyes alongside her grandfather, a doomsday prepper who saw too many bad things in the Vietnam War and has been living with them ever since.  When the people responsible for one of those bad things decides to take him out, she follows them to New York for vengeance.  While […]

The Great British Bump-Off

It’s been Shauna Wickle’s dream to get on the United Kingdom’s premier baking show “UK Bakery Tent” and it nearly evaporates like a poorly-thought-out reduction on her very first day.  That’s when one of the contestants, arrogant meteorologist Neal, is poisoned by an unknown party.  As producers debate whether to call this whole season off, […]

X-Men: Hellfire Gala ’23

I originally meant to have this up to follow my review of “Immortal X-Men” vol. 3… but it just slipped my mind the following week.  Much as I’d like to say that’s not a mark against the overall quality of this one-shot, written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by ten talented artists, it kind of […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: April 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Critical Role:  Vox Machina Origins, Series IV #1 Even though I have yet to listen to any of the podcasts or watch the animated series spun off from it, I’ve enjoyed the series of “Origins” comics that Dark Horse has been publishing for this franchise.  At least, I was before they decided to […]