Comic Picks By The Glick

Wouldn't we all want to go live in a rural island community right about now?

Myron and Rob join me for this podcast as we try to find out if this "Dragonball Z"-inspired series is a true homage or just a rip-off.

We may not have recorded this at Fanime, but that's not going to stop us from talking up this classic series about life in the quirkiest boys' dorm.

It's been consistently entertaining up to this point, but does Aaron's run have a worthy ending?

Stjepan Sejic offers a gorgeous, if arguably incomplete, look at the origin of Harley Quinn.

There's a reason it took me so long to get around to talking about this... Edit: Whoops! Here's the actual podcast in addition to its post.

Where I see if two B-list Image titles can add up to one great podcast!

One of the best, weirdest, and darkest "Star Wars" titles out there.

Myron is back again to help dissect this generally decent "Venom"-centric event.

It's a vampire story with two protagonists. One of whom is clearly more interesting than the other.

This year, it's all about the waiting. Featuring Samura, Gillen, King, Warren, Johnson and more!

Have you stopped reading about the X-Men? Then it's time to come back...

Cliff Chiang's art is great, but Brian Vaughan's attempt at creating a puzzle box of a comic is decidedly uneven.

Because nothing says Christmas like talking about Warren Ellis and Jon Davis' Hunt's efforts to reboot an imprint. As well as inviting Myron back to talk about why Wildstorm was worth rebooting in the first place.

Does the finale to Remender and Scalera's mad sci-fi epic grind its protagonist into dust, raise him to the heavens, or try to do both?

It takes more than just a gun to earn that designation as one of the best, and certainly the weirdest, zombie manga wraps up.

A series whose dumbness is matched only by its hilarity and ambition in finding new ways to provide fanservice!

Gillen and McKelvie stick the landing, even as they leave you wishing a certain character had run off with the ending.

John and I talk about the new movie, while I make the case for even more Joker origin stories than the ones we already have in the comics.

"The Walking Dead" wasn't the only series started by Robert Kirkman to wrap up this year. Does it deliver a better ending?

The best of Jason Aaron's run on "Thor?" Or just another so-so Marvel event?

Gillen made magic happen on "Darth Vader." Does he do it again here, with and without Salvador Larroca?

Okay... so this is how the "Hellboy" saga really ends.

I find out if the prolific (former) Marvel writer has got his mojo back with his new creator-owned titles and "Superman: The Man of Steel."

John and I take a mulligan this week to talk about a series that's fun because it does things you won't see elsewhere, sometimes for good reason.

It was the worst kind of surprise for me. Was it a good ending, though?

Wagner's epic fantasy trilogy is finally complete after three decades. Was it worth the wait?

The flaws of this series are forgivable under the scope of its ambition, ideas, and amazing art.

It will cost you, but this long out-of-print anthology is worth tracking down.

I look at the late, great manga writer's non-terrible and actually good collaborations with Ryoichi Ikegami. Anyone looking to make a drinking game out of this episode is advised to take a shot each time I mention "female wish fulfillment" when talking about "Crying Freeman." It really wasn't something I was expecting to engage with before re-reading it...

Strap in as Myron and I take an in-depth look at this epic milestone anthology celebration of Batman.

This series about the beginning of Darth Vader's infamy is inextricably linked in my mind to its predecessor. For worse, and for better.

Follows on from this. Myron's back to help figure out if this latest Spider-event is any good or if you should just watch "Into the Spider-Verse" again.

In which I find lots of ways to say, "It's good, but not as good as 'The Ancient Magus' Bride'" about Kore Yamazaki's latest series.

Will I say something problematic or insightful about this pair of graphic novels featuring an African-American reporter going undercover as a white man in the 1920's?

A fancy way of saying that, along with the live-action movie, I'll be talking about the "Holy Night and Other Stories" and "Ashen Victor" collections.

I look at several recent releases, and one old one, to determine what makes a comic scary.

Featuring criminals, lovers, madmen, graphic violence, clever plans, and laugh-out-loud moments throughout the list, and all together in the year's best read.

John and I talk about the winter's BEST superhero movie while I go on about the comics that inspired it.

The stories that inspired the movie aren't bad, even if their defensiveness does them no favors. (And if anyone's wondering what I thought about the movie, I'll just say that it was fine.)

Does Kodansha's second manga-based anthology from international creators fare any better than its first?

Should I hold out hope that "Gideon Falls" will turn out well after the endings of "Descender" and "Royal City?"

John and I tackle a "Batman" story that does a lot of interesting things, but doesn't really take any of them far enough.

It has its faults, but this series is still a captivating, magical take on the "Beauty and the Beast" setup.

The latest series from Brubaker and Phillips is (unsurprisingly) really good!

The true stories of Andre the Giant, Andy Kaufman, and Tetris make for excellent reading in this graphic novelist's hands.

My thoughts on Matt Kindt's so-so follow up to "Mind MGMT."

It's "The War of the Worlds" by way of "The Wind in the Willows" and exactly as fun as that sounds.

Why do a major "Doctor Strange" story in the pages of his ongoing title when you can spin it out into a mini-event instead!

Shiga's four-volume epic is as entertaining as it is depraved!