Comic Picks By The Glick

Comic Picks #281: Best of 2018 24.01.2019 46:57 ↓

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.

Comic Picks #280: Into the Spider-Verse 10.01.2019 29:00 ↓

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

Comic Picks #279: Aquaman by David and Johns 27.12.2018 30:05 ↓

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.)

Comic Picks #278: Ghost in the Shell -- Global Neural Network 13.12.2018 31:43 ↓

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

Comic Picks #277: Jeff Lemire -- Two Endings and One Beginning 29.11.2018 26:35 ↓

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

Comic Picks #276: Batman -- White Knight 15.11.2018 26:21 ↓

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

Comic Picks #275: The Ancient Magus' Bride 03.11.2018 23:17 ↓

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

Comic Picks #274: Kill or be Killed 18.10.2018 22:23 ↓

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

Comic Picks #273: Box Brown 04.10.2018 25:11 ↓

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

Comic Picks #272: Dept. H 20.09.2018 15:59 ↓

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

Comic Picks #271: Wild's End 06.09.2018 18:10 ↓

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

Comic Picks #270: Doctor Strange -- Damnation 23.08.2018 23:05 ↓

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!

Comic Picks #269: Demon by Jason Shiga 09.08.2018 14:14 ↓

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

Comic Picks #268: Princess Jellyfish 26.07.2018 18:51 ↓

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

Comic Picks #267: Avengers -- No Surrender 12.07.2018 17:32 ↓

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

Comic Picks #266: Metal 28.06.2018 23:59 ↓

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

Comic Picks #265B: Ten Years of Picks -- Mushishi 14.06.2018 19:04 ↓

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.

Comic Picks #265A: Ten Years of Picks -- Aliens Omnibi 14.06.2018 27:35 ↓

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

Comic Picks #264: Hidden Treasures of Manga, Part 3 31.05.2018 29:15 ↓

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

Comic Picks #263: Avengers -- Infinity Stuff 17.05.2018 1:02:21 ↓

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

Comic Picks #262: Invincible (Full Return) 03.05.2018 32:43 ↓

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.

Comic Picks #261: Silver Spoon/Kaguya-sama: Love is War 19.04.2018 49:09 ↓

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."

Comic Picks #260: Genshiken -- Second Season 05.04.2018 46:37 ↓

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

Comic Picks #259: Letter 44 22.03.2018 20:05 ↓

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

Comic Picks #258: Snowpiercer 08.03.2018 25:44 ↓

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