Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

DC Previews Picks: January 2020

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman:  Heroes #1 This is a one-shot featuring a stellar cast of creators:  Bendis, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction and Jody Houser share writing duties, while Kevin Maguire, Steve Lieber, Mike Perkins, and more provide the art.  So what kind of event would bring all these creators together? Nothing more than exploring the fallout […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: January 2020

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus vol. 5 Longtime readers should not be surprised to see this volume here.  At all. For those of you who’ve joined us more recently, “The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service” is one of the best manga published by Dark Horse.  It’s about a group of unemployable college students […]

Emanon vol. 2

The first seventy-two pages of this volume have something you don’t normally see a lot of in manga:  COLOR. Artist Kenji Tsuruta painted these pages himself and they look pretty great. It’s a lush vision of a rural mountain area which has an inn and a pond nearby.  It’s by this pond that Atsushi, who […]

Batman vol. 10: Knightmares

Here it is, folks:  The storyline that led to Tom King getting kicked off “Batman.”  Don’t worry about him too much. He’ll be finishing his storyline in the “Batman/Catwoman” maxiseries with his “Sheriff of Babylon” and “Mister Miracle” collaborator, Mitch Gerads.  It’ll still be short of the 100-issue run that he had planned to have […]

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956

Big Red’s name may be in the title, but he’s almost an afterthought in this volume.  That’s because it’s all about exploring what else was going on with the B.P.R.D. during his ill-fated trip to Mexico.  Margaret is busy running the day-to-day operations of the organization while Professor Bruttenholm has secrets kept from him by […]

The Way of the Househusband vol. 1

The story goes that one night “The Immortal Dragon” broke up ten rival Yakuza factions in one night.  Barehanded. Then he disappeared without explanation the following day. What could cause such a man to walk away from the Yakuza life?  Why, to walk the path of the househusband of course! Tatsu found the right girl […]

Cemetery Beach

Warren Ellis and Jason Howard decided to take a break before they dove into the third and final volume of “Trees.”  I also believe it was Howard who told Ellis that he wanted to do something with a lot more action. Thank god he did because the end result is likely going to be the […]

What’s this? The new Marvel rundown!

*Looks at “to review” pile.* *Looks at “to read” pile.” Yeah, there’s a lot in each right now.  You know what makes up a lot of the former?  Marvel titles! So let me throw out my thoughts on the latest volumes of “X-23,” “Black Panther,” “Immortal Hulk,” “Captain America,” and “Domino.” Credit where credit is […]