Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Moonshine vol. 3: Rue Le Jour

After a short stint as part of a chain gang, Lou Pirlo has finally made it to Rue Le Jour in New Orleans.  It’s here that he meets up again with his paramour Delia, who has reunited with her sisters.  (Or are they her mothers, who can really say?)  Delia has asked them to help […]

Everything vol. 1: Grand Opening

I’ve liked what I’ve read from writer Christopher Cantwell so far.  The thing is that what he’s written so far has been defined by a fairly aggressive strand of quirkiness.  He loved piling it on over the two volumes of “She Could Fly,” which would’ve suffocated under it without the strong characterizations the writer afforded […]

Barakamon vol. 18+1

You might say that I jumped the gun on doing a podcast about this series with the appearance of this volume.  The catch is that you can’t really vol. “18+1” a proper volume of “Barakamon.”  It’s a collection of oddball short stories and ton of color art that you won’t find anywhere else (in a […]

Deadly Class vol. 9: Bone Machine

It only took creators Rick Remender and Wes Craig nine volumes to get around to it, but they’ve finally embraced the most 80’s of film genres with this volume:  The slasher movie.  Remember how Helmut’s dead girlfriend Petra was raised by a murder cult?  They’re who the metalhead, along with Toshawi, is going to kill […]

Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer vol. 7: 2099

In case you hadn’t heard, Marvel put out another event relating to their marketable-only-for-nostalgic-purposes “2099” series of comics last year.  “Amazing” writer Nick Spencer wrote the bookend issues and ties the whole thing into this series here.  Not very well if I’m to judge as someone who is just reading the main “Spider-Man” series.  Miguel […]

Marauders vol. 1

Even if it wasn’t that great, Gerry Duggan’s “Infinity Wars”  event and tie-ins at least showed me that I didn’t have to fear reading something from the writer.  Not after he drove my interest in reading his further adventures of “Deadpool” into the ground all those years ago.  Now he’s part of the “Dawn of […]

The Heroic Legend of Arslan vol. 12

Another volume, another threat to Arslan’s quest to restore his kingdom.  This time it’s coming from the Not-Mongols — I mean, the Kingdom of Turan who has an army of riders capable of swiftly conquering any army they come across.  They’re not so good at siege warfare, however, which is what they find themselves stuck […]

Redneck vol. 4: Lone Star

If you’ll recall, I was quite keen on catching up with this series after reading through vol. 3.  I’ve done just that after reading through vol. 4 and seeing the results of the Bowman family’s trip to Mexico.  “Ill-fated” doesn’t really begin to describe it as things kick off with patriarch JV murdering a human […]