Comic Picks By The Glick

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!