Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

The Sacrificers vol. 3

Pigeon has the power to change the world, but will he be able to wield it in a way that will allow him to do so?  The answer to that question remains to be seen even as he sets his sights on a goal that’s much easier to attain:  Revenge on the Foreman for sacrificing […]

Rook: Exodus vol. 1

The man known only as Rook came to the planet Exodus, bought and colonized by the Better-World corporation, looking for a new life after his farm on Earth burned down.  Now he’s looking for a way off the planet after the World Engine terraformer failed, leaving it to slowly return to its barren state.  He […]

Mujina: Into the Deep vol. 2

Ubume has just completed her first job as a bottom-ranked Mujina:  Kidnapping the brains behind an idol to make him look like an idiot during a televised information show.  However, said brains has a proposition for our rights-less assassin.  The husband and wife team who ran the agency that groomed her boy into an idol, […]

Wonder Woman by Tom King vol. 3: Fury

She spent most of the previous volume as a prisoner of the Sovereign, the secret King of America, but then she escaped with the help of her friends (and then tied in to “Absolute Power”).  Now Wonder Woman is free and she’s ready to make her adversary pay. It’s not just for the business of […]

Plastic Man No More!

Eel “Plastic Man” O’Brien has always been the irreverent, carefree Id of the Justice League.  Always quick with a quip and never about to take any threat seriously.  Until the day he gets hit with a death ray and his polymeric body structure starts to slowly lose cohesion.  That’s right, Plastic Man is dying and […]

Paranoid Gardens

It’s a place where anyone can go in order to get the care they need in order to get better.  Regardless of their race, gender, sex, whether or not they’ve got superpowers, or are some kind of alien, or supernatural creature.  Lou is the latest addition to the Gardens’ staff and she’s really good at […]

Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn vol. 20

Robert Altman is back, baby, and he’s fully embraced his inner weeb in the process (Believe it!).  After saving his crew, he’s ready to arrest the head of Poseidon, Labrys.  Before he can do that, he’s got to make it through her sales pitch to have him join her secret science organization.  It turns out […]

Dark Horse Penguin Picks: September 2025

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dracula, Book Two:  The Brides I didn’t think the world needed another take on the “Dracula” mythos, even coming from a team as storied as writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelley Jones.  That first volume managed to surprise me as it gave us a portrait of the Impaler in his pre-vampiric days as […]