Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Radiant Black vol. 4: Two-in-One

Radiant Black isn’t just one person anymore after the events of vol. 3 – it’s now two.  Or rather, two people, Nathan and Marshall, sharing the suit and the powers.  They’re managing this new setup pretty well, until the powers start glitching out.  That’s a bad thing by itself, and it becomes worse when a […]

Scotch McTiernan vs. The Forces of Evil

This collects three separate one-shots:  “The Secret History of the War on Weed,” “Scotch McTiernan’s Halloween Party” and “Scotch McTiernan’s Holiday Party” from the creative team of co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, and artist Scott Koblish.  You might recall that they’ve all worked together before on “Deadpool,” with Koblish illustrating the “flashback” issues from […]

DC Solicitation Sneaks: November 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC vs. Vampires vol. 1 $25 for the first half of this miniseries in hardcover?  No thank you.  $17 for the first half in softcover?  Yeah, I think I can make that work in my head.  As for what it’s about, “DC vs. Vampires” kind of says it all, doesn’t it.  “DCeased” has […]

Image Advance Arrivals: November 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Monstress vol. 8:  Inferno Did I put the previous volume here when it was solicited over a year ago?  I sure did.  That doesn’t stop me from wanting to read this more than anything else in this round of solicitations (and not for a lack of quality picks, as we’ll see).  Vol. 7 […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: November 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Drifters Omnibus vol. 1 When I saw this omnibus edition in these solicitations, I thought that it was an effort to attract new readers to the series and make it profitable again so that Dark Horse could publish new volumes.  I mean, it’s been a hot minute since vol. 6 hit these shores, […]

Marvel Penguin Picks: November 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Blue – Origins #1 No, it’s not a revival of the Cullen Bunn-written “X-Men” series.  Nor is it a throwback to the Gold/Blue teams from the early 90’s.  This is a one-shot which promises the definitive origin of one of the bluest X-Men:  Nightcrawler.  Why is he getting a “definitive” origin here?  […]

20th Century Men

While I let my expectations with established talent dictate a lot of what I read, there’s something to be said for picking up a comic from creators I’m unfamiliar with and being entertained by it.  This has happened before and it’ll happen again.  Of course, there’s always the chance that you might wind up with […]

Night of the Ghoul

Forest Innman makes his living digitizing old films for a movie studio.  It’s a decent living, but a constantly depressing reminder to him that he never made it as a filmmaker himself.  Then he comes across a canister of film for “Night of the Ghoul.”  Thought to be lost, it was a horror film made […]