Comic Picks By The Glick

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!

BEHOLD, the manga sitcom that wants to tell a serialized story but with characters too one-dimensional for it to work!

Three different "Avengers" titles wrap up their runs in this perfectly serviceable event series.

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo follow up their classic "Batman" run with this event series that's the definition of "good, but not great."

I go back to our first podcast to give a full accounting of this strange and fascinating series that's maybe a bit too hopeful for its own good.

I go back to our first podcast to talk about some of the best licensed comics around. Mostly in the first omnibus.

Follows on from this, and this. I kept digging for more and this is what I found.

Myron is back and we share our thoughts on "Infinity War" and the comics that inspired it.

The only comic on the stands with the balls to bill itself as "The greatest comic in the universe!" and the quality to back it up.

Steve is back to talk about two new manga that deserve your time and money. We also talk a bit about "Golden Kamuy," "Not-Genshiken" follow-up "Spotted Flower" and "Delicious in Dungeon."

My friend Steve joins us to talk about this sequel series that applies great characterization to a fundamentally unworkable premise.

A killer premise has both good and bad soap opera foisted upon it in this sci-fi series.

Liked the movie? Then you'll like the graphic novels that spawned it. The first volume, at least.

John and I talk about the movie, and I go into what is widely considered to be the character's definitive run.

I take it easy this week and give you my thoughts on "Detective Comics vol. 4: Deus Ex Machina" and "Batman vol. 4: The War of Jokes and Riddles."

A manga so nice it's been license-rescued twice! Its new shonen manga anthology "Neo Parasyte m" is also pretty good.

One of the rare times where it was a lot easier to pick the worst of the year than the best.

"Gantz" creator Hiroyu Oku tells all you youngsters to GET OFF HIS LAWN in this predictable sci-fi action series.

Neither the worst Marvel event series nor without its own problems either.

The "Justice League" movie got you down? Here's a take on the team that does it justice and is positively overflowing with ideas -- to its benefit and detriment.

Between this and "Echo," Terry Moore really needs to work on his endings.

It may not be part of the Mignolaverse, but Mignola, Golden, Stenbeck and Bergting's period supernatural horror series is definitely worth a look (it's first half, at least).

The writer does the (not hard) job of delivering the best take on "Old Man Logan" yet, and his new creator-owned title is worth a look as well.

The genuinely awful sequel that everyone says its predecessor was.

There is tremendous skill and craft underpinning this incredibly, but not completely, depressing work.

Whoever wins, we lose! ...No it's not one of the better "X-Men" crossover events, but there's better stuff in the tie-in issues.

The original "Alias" remains one of Bendis' best, and the Netflix series is pretty good too.

Can something good happen when a six-volume series runs for eight volumes?

Truly, madly, deeply uneven. Right up to the end.

This manga is an invaluable document of information about the cleanup efforts regarding the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plan. It also serves as a reminder of the importance of narrative when it comes to presenting information as a graphic novel.

Was this event series as bad as everyone says it was? I look into it and some of its tie-ins.

The movie's good and there's plenty of other comics about Diana of Themyscira that are worth checking out too.

Spiritual successor to this. Are there any interesting skeletons in the publisher's catalog of uncollected manga?

Does Tim Seely and Mike Norton's (quirky) rural noir (horror) series stick the landing in its final volume?

The latest Spider-event isn't bad, but never feels as epic as advertised.

Wherein Brandon Graham and company try to make the best of what Rob Liefeld gave then.

Why was the original anime film being talked up so much in advance of the live-action version? Because the source manga is highly overrated.

A comic with quality sex and substance? Yes, such a thing does exist!