Manga and Comic Reviews
I’ve noticed for a while now that Marvel has been steadily raising the prices on their trade paperbacks. Where a collection of a 5-issues used to run you around $13-14, it’ll now run you anywhere from $15-20 these days, depending on how well the series sold in single issue form. While I’d say that the […]
Today was one of the rare Wednesdays where NOTHING I wanted was scheduled to ship, and the comic shop didn’t get in anything I asked them to order for me… Of course, that really won’t make a difference here since I generally don’t comment on the comics I’ve just bought for this column. I have […]
Back to the old format for this week. Three reviews below the break… X-Men: Legacy vol. 2 — Sins of the Father After the end of the “Messiah Complex” crossover, the “adjectiveless” X-Men title mutated into a Professor X solo book where he travels the world meeting with old friends and enemies in order to […]
In a break from tradition, such as it is, I’m not going to talk about three series this week. Instead, I’m just going to focus on one that’s been nagging at the back of my head for a little while now. “Oishinbo vol. 1: Japanese Cuisine,” written by Tetsu Kariay and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki, […]
I don’t plan things this way, but the stuff I picked up last week turned out to be three more volumes in series that I’ve been reading for a while. So while it goes without saying that none of these represent a good jumping on point for their series (well.. “Criminal” is a special case), […]
The podcast will be up soon (by “soon” I mean in the next 24 hours or so). In the meantime, I’ve got more thoughts on some recent trade paperbacks: The Immortal Iron Fist vol. 3: The Book of The Iron Fist I really enjoyed the first two volumes of “The Immortal Iron Fist,” written by […]
So, I heard Batman died last week. Yeah. I don’t belive it either, and while I could go on about how comic book deaths never last (most are speculating that Mr. Wayne will escape death the same way Shiloh Norman did in another Grant Morrison comic, “Seven Soldiers of Victory”) but someone else summed up […]
You’ve probably noticed that there was a delay between the posting of episodes #20 and #21. The reason is that there is a publication change here. “Comic Picks by the Glick” and “Generic Anime Podcast” are going to a bi-weekly schedule for the foreseeable future. There should be a new podcast up this week discussing […]
The date that I’m writing this is July 4, 2023 and I’ve FINALLY transferred all of the old posts I made to this new site. Fitting that it happened on Independence Day as I’m now free from devoting a half hour each day to cutting, pasting, posting and doing minor revisions on the thousands of […]