Comic Picks by the Glick

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Image Previews Picks: August 2020

Image’s solicitations are also a mix of old and new titles.  Among the new, however, is one that I’ve been waiting a while to see… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cruel Summer HC Like a lot of other people, I’ve been waiting for the latest “Criminal” series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips to be collected.  While twelve […]

Marvel Previews Picks: August 2020

This is going to be a weird round of “Previews Picks,” as you might have guessed.  With the comics industry slowly working its way out of shutdown, August’s Previews are going to look veeeeeeeery similar to June’s.  With a few exceptions sneaking in here and there.  In Marvel’s case, there are only two: Maestro #1 […]

Delicious in Dungeon vol. 8

Most of the chapters in this volume are focused around our protagonists, yet it doesn’t feel like they’re the ones moving the story forward here.  Their stories are still good fun, starting off with a two-parter which shows us what effects stepping into the changeling ring at the end of the previous volume had on […]

Batman: Last Knight on Earth

I’ve waxed poetic about Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “Batman” run enough on this blog that you all should know I think it’s pretty great.  So it should come as no surprise that I was really looking forward to this volume which was billed as their last word on the character — well before the […]

X-Men by Jonathan Hickman vol. 1

The first volume of the flagship series of the “Dawn of X” era has arrived.  As written by “House of X/Powers of X” mastermind Jonathan Hickman, it’s not unreasonable to expect that the stories being told within this series will be driving the line as a whole.  So the expectation is that we’d be getting […]

The History of the Marvel Universe

The history of the Marvel Universe is a living, breathing thing that changes with each new comic published.  It’ll look different from one year to the next, and possibly even unrecognizable between decades.  So the idea that someone was going to do a comic that was going to outline it all, up to the point […]

All-Rounder Meguru vol. 14

With this volume, Kodansha has now published as many volumes of “All-Rounder Meguru” as Dark Horse has of “Eden:  It’s an Endless World!”  Which is still something that I highly recommend EVERYONE who visits this blog to check out.  Especially now as comics emerge (slowly) from lockdown. As for the volume itself, it’s another solid […]

Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle

I wasn’t sure why we needed another random “Amazing Spider-Man” one-shot when this was solicited, but the creative team attached to it sold me on the idea of picking it up (eventually).  Contributing to this story are (deep breath):  Jonathan Hickman, Chris Bachao, Gerry Duggan, Greg Smallwood, (current Spider-Writer) Nick Spencer, Mike Allred, Kelly Thompson, […]

Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt

Aliens are invading!  Los Angeles is doomed!  The world is next, unless its superheroes can convince the one man capable of saving it to do so!  That man:  Peter Cannon, a man who is capable of seeing nine times more than others due to the scrolls of a dead people who were unjustly wiped from […]

Hillbilly vol. 1

In the years since I finished with Eric Powell’s signature series, “The Goon,” he’s returned to it and is two volumes into the latest series.  While I’m not about to see if it’s worth reading again, his Image miniseries with Tim Wiesch, “Big Man Plans,” made it clear that I should still make time for […]