Comic Picks by the Glick

Manga and Comic Reviews

Poison Ivy vol. 4: Mourning Sickness

There are characters who are left in a bad way at the end of a previous volume to generate suspense.  Then there’s where Pamela Isley was left at the end of vol. 3 after her nemesis Jason Woodrue crawled out of her ribcage after regenerating there following his defeat in vol. 1.  With the Floronic […]

Operation Sunshine vol. 2: Already Dead

Now this, this is no “Masterpiece.” That’s because the concluding volume of “Operation Sunshine” is actually good.  Where the first volume was all about introducing the cast and setting up their theft of a magical object that can reverse vampirism and end all vampires, this one is all about paying off on that setup.  Which […]

Masterpiece

No, it really isn’t. Masterpiece Lawford, or Emma to her friends, has just started college and before she can finish not introducing herself, the FBI shows up to apprehend her.  Only it’s not the FBI.  It’s a bunch of goons posing as FBI agents employed by multi-mega-billionaire Doctor Zero Preston.  Years ago, Emma’s parents ripped […]

Wonder Woman by Tom King vol. 2: Sacrifice

Last time, writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampere delivered a master class in modern superhero storytelling.  They set up a threat for Wonder Woman, in how America turned against Themyscira after an Amazon murdered several of its citizens. Yet, in showing how Diana responded to that threat, they didn’t diminish her character at all […]

Drive Like Hell

Bobby Ray and his girlfriend Dahlia are taking part in a little bank robbery where the former’s job is to provide the distraction while their friends get away with the money.  The problem is that Bobby Ray has picked the wrong car for this job.  Not that this car isn’t fast, but it’s actually a […]

Empowered vol. 12

Things start out on the crazy end of the action scale with the world under threat from a ginormous (yet strangely familiar) energy monster with none other than Major Havoc gearing up to save it.  His wife, Empowered, would be joining him in this, except that she is very pregnant with their kid.  Doing so […]

Dark Knights of Steel vol. 2

War was brewing when we last checked in with this medieval fantasy recasting of the DC Universe.  Two of the rulers of the three kingdoms of the land had been murdered and all three of them are now prepared to settle their differences on the field of battle.  It’ll be a battle the likes of […]