Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Marvel Previews Picks: December 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Conan:  Serpent War #’s 1&2 (of 4) This doesn’t get the “Above-the-Board” spot for what it is.  As a B-list event featuring Conan, fellow Robert E. Howard creations Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes (and also Moon Knight because why not), with Jim Zub writing and Scot Eaton and Stephen Segovia illustrating, I’m sure […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: December 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.:  The Seven Wives Club I’ll be honest, not much stood out to me in this round of solicitations.  Most of the trade paperbacks on offer either had some kind of issue holding them back or just seemed outright mediocre.  There were some promising-sounding miniseries coming from unknown (to me) […]

Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san vol. 1

As far as titles go, this is probably the most straightforward one you’ll see this year.  It’s about Honda-san. She’s a bookseller. She’s got a human skull for a face. That’s not as strange as it sounds when you consider that her co-workers have paper bags, gas masks, and knight helmets for faces themselves.  It’s […]

Superior Spider-Man vol. 1: Full Otto

Going back to yesterday’s first volume of “Miles Morales,” if his latest adventures felt fun yet predictable, this new “Superior Spider-Man” is a more self-aware version of that.  Picking up from the “post-credits scene” of “Amazing Spider-Man #800,” Otto Octavius has a new body and identity. That of the newest professor at Horizon University in […]

Murcielago vol. 11

I was kind of holding out hope that this current storyline was saving its craziest stuff for last.  As it was involving some Japanese practitioners of Christianity and we all know how Japan has treated that religion with nothing but the greatest respect over the years.  Regrettably, that doesn’t happen as the juiciest stuff winds […]

Bad Weekend

It’s the weekend of Comic Fest and Jacob Kurtz has a miserable task ahead of him.  He’s been asked to watch over legendary comics artist Hal Crane. Just to make sure that the man gets to his panels and doesn’t get into too much trouble before he accepts his lifetime achievement award.  That would be […]

Star Wars: Vader — Dark Visions

Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca tackled the character as he worked his way out of disgrace in the wake of the Death Star’s destruction.  Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli showed us the character as he was just starting out and unknown to the galaxy at large.  Good “Darth Vader” stories like these have one thing […]

Mr. & Mrs. X vol. 2: Gambit & Rogue Forever

Vol. 1 ended somewhat incongruously with our happily married couple strung up over a tank filled with alligators.  Rather than handwave it away as “The kind of thing that happens in superhero comics,” writer Kelly Thompson has it tie into the main story as Gambit and Rogue find themselves in the Mojoverse.  The writer uses […]