Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Superman: Space Age

How would you live your life if you knew that it was all going to end at a certain point?  That’s the question which hangs over this miniseries from writer Mark Russell and artist Mike Allred, and the person who has to ponder it is the Man of Steel himself.  Not right away, though, as […]

Bloodborne: The Lady of the Lanterns

I really liked the first volume of Titan Comics’ “Boodborne” series by writer Ales Kot and artist Piotr Kowalski.  It managed the really tricky task of adapting a game with a famously abstract/inscrutable/hard-to-parse story and communicated its style quite well into the medium of sequential art.  That didn’t last as while vol. 2 was solid, […]

Black Adam vol. 1: Theogony

Theo Teth-Adam – Black Adam to his friends, enemies, and the general superhero community – is dying.  The reason why is a mystery, but the time has come for him to pass on his legacy to one of his descendants.  In this case, the lucky recipient winds up being one Malik White, an African-American medical […]

Dark Spaces: Wildfire

Crew 513 is a brigade of thirty female prisoners who are part of a special group that have been trained to help put out forest fires.  “Wildfire” focuses on a group of four, Sawyer, Zinn, Ramos, and Brooks, and their C.O. Ruby Ma Ning – “Ma” to her crew – as they fight against the […]

Briar vol. 1: Sleep No More

The princess Briar Rose had it all.  A loving family, intelligence, beauty, and the favor of seven fairy godmothers seemed to ensure she was going to lead a charmed life.  Then she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel, fell into a deep slumber, was found by a charming prince who decided to marry her, […]

Image Advance Arrivals: October 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: I Hate This Place vol. 2 It took multiple tries, but writer Kyle Starks, this time with artist Artyom Topilin, finally delivered a series that made it past its first volume.  Granted, it’s wrapping up with this volume, but as someone who is still disappointed that “Assassin Nation” didn’t get a second outing […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: October 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Operation Sunshine #1 Being a vampire can suck.  For a small group of young bloodsuckers, it sucks so much that they’ve been trying to find a way to make themselves human again.  They think they’ve found a way to do it, too.  All they have to do is steal a magical object from […]