Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club

The titular organization is made up of some familiar faces to the Mignolaverse, Sir Edward Gray and Sarah Jewell chief among them, who met in a London pub late in the 19th Century to discuss supernatural goings-on around town.  It’s these adventures that Simon Bruttenholm has decided to educate his nephew Trevor and his adopted […]

Farmhand vol. 4: The Seed

It took a while for this volume to arrive.  Long enough to make me worry that it wouldn’t be coming at all.  Which would have been very disappointing after the events of vol. 3 set up a major change to the status quo in the world of “Farmhand.”  No longer was Jedediah Jenkins overseeing the […]

Saga vol. 10

It took a while, but Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ much-loved series has finally made its return to kick off its second half.  Four years may seem like a long time between volumes, but when you’re like me and have spent the last decade waiting for new volumes of “Berserk” and “Black Lagoon” it’s […]

Dark Ages

You can also call this “The Night the Lights Went Out in the Marvel Universe,” because that’s the basic premise behind this miniseries.  When a giant robot meant to control universal entropy, but was sealed inside the Earth when it went out of control, starts waking up it’s down to the members of the superhero […]

Air vol. 1: Letters From Lost Countries

“Air” is a series that starts off with a woman and a man falling from the sky into the sea.  It doesn’t get less weird from there as we’re properly introduced to the woman, Blythe, an acrophobic flight attendant, as she gets sucked into a conspiracy to change the world.  Threatened by a vigilante group […]

Marvel Penguin Picks: February 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Immoral X-Men #1 (of 3), Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 (of 3), and Nightcrawlers #1 (of 3) The “Age of Apocalypse” really was the gift that keeps on giving to the “X-Men.”  People thought the idea of canceling all of the currently ongoing “X-Men” books in the 90’s for four months […]

DC Solicitation Sneaks: February 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Sandman Universe:  Nightmare Country vol. 1 I’m putting this collection here because it’s doing something that I’d honestly like to see more publishers do:  Offer the paperback edition at the same time as the hardcover.  Normally you’d have to wait several months for the paperback edition of a collected edition originally published […]

Image Previews Picks: February 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Do A Powerbomb! I know that I gave this spot to the first issue of this miniseries when it was solicited.  The simple fact is that there’s nothing I’d rather read more in this round of solicitations than the collected edition of Daniel Warren Johnson’s latest miniseries.  While Johnson is easily one of […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: February 2023

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Where Monsters Lie #1 (of 4) Kyle Starks may not be the most high-profile writer debuting his first Dark Horse title in these solicitations, but he has the one I’m most looking forward to reading.  The writer is teaming with talented artist Piotr Kowalski for this series about what slasher-movie monsters get up […]

Sweet Paprika vol. 2

All Paprika wanted was to gain a little experience in the ways of romance to impress Za’atar, the big-shot movie producer who’s making the massively successful book she edited, “Spice it Up,” into a movie.  The problem is that the person she decided to let help her with this, grade-A himbo delivery boy Dill, has […]