Comic Picks By The Glick

Believe it or not, there are still some quality comics that haven't been reprinted in collected editions.  As well as a bunch that have been left that way for good reason...

I've seen the anime.  My friend Rob has not.  Did I enjoy this new take on the series?  Did he think it even made sense?  The answer to these questions and a whole lot more are waiting for you.

Comics' foremost teacher has given us the essential text "Understanding Comics," and the less-essential-but-still-fun "Zot!" and "The Sculptor."

There's a lot more to the manga compared to what you saw in the movie.  Maybe not as mind-blowing, but still worth a look.

I thought this would wind up being commercial suicide.  It wound up being one of the more interesting and weird superhero titles I've read in recent memory.

Writer/artist Jeff Lemire fashions an engaging story out of some very familiar parts with this series.

More Marvel, less manga, one last-minute entry, and some Batman. The full list awaits!

Bryan Talbot's ongoing series of graphic novels about anthropomorphic animals in an alternate steampunk history is a fantastic mash-up of genres.

A middle-of-the-road Marvel event that vaguely gestures towards the Marvel Universe.

Maybe not the last podcast I do for Dark Horse's "Star Wars" titles, but I offer my thoughts on the final two volumes of Brian Wood's "Star Wars," the concluding volume of "Legacy vol. II," and Matt Kindt's "Rebel Heist."

Proof that it can be worthwhile to stick with a series even if its first volume fails to impress.

Where I talk about the comic adaptations of "Noah" and "Django Unchained" and say a few more words about "Alien: The Illustrated Story" and "The Star Wars."

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' latest collaboration isn't a bad one.  It's just the least good of their efforts so far. (I don't know what went wrong when I posted this on Wednesday, but here it is at last.)

(The follow-up to this .)  Mohiro Kitoh's series about kids who give their lives to pilot a giant mech is at its best when it goes where other series of its kind don't.  Which I wish it did more often.

Not the best Geoff Johns-written DC event (that would be "Blackest Night" ) but better than the worst (which would be "Flashpoint" ).

Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's assemblage of famous literary figures starts out fantastic, then becomes really weird while still being pretty good.

"It's like if Stephen King wrote a Shonen Jump title" is the best way I can think of to describe this series that's as good as it is bizarre. *rimshot*

Not as fun or accessible as the movie (which John and I also get into here), but still good entertainment.

Re-reading vols. 1-7 of "Morning Glories" only further cemented its "Lost"-ness in my mind.  "Mind MGMT" on the other hand...

Can two former critical and fan-favorite titles make a comeback from an awful crossover?

The best argument yet for shutting down Marvel's Ultimate imprint.

John and I share our thoughts on "Days of Future Past," while I talk about one of the most entertaining X-titles in recent memory.

Pretty self-explanatory I should think.  Part one can be found  here .

It turns out that the writer's other work with Batman, Daredevil, Punisher and "Crossed" isn't indicative of his brilliance in "Stray Bullets."

Mike Richardson has done some great things in the industry as publisher/co-founder of Dark Horse Comics.  He hasn't done quite as much as a writer.