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Comic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #322: Ether by Kindt and RubinThanks to David Rubin, Matt Kindt's most accessible creator-owned series is also his best looking.
2020-08-2018 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #321: Batman vs. PredatorIt's actually a bad thing that this, and other DC/Dark Horse crossovers, will be going out of print soon.
2020-08-0629 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #320: The Dreaming by Simon SpurrierVertigo's last gasp is a glorious one.
2020-07-2328 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #319: Spy x Family vol. 1Rob and Myron return so we can find out if this is the next big Shonen Jump series, or the worst "Bond" movie never made.
2020-07-0956 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #318: BarakamonWouldn't we all want to go live in a rural island community right about now?
2020-06-2521 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #317: No One Left to FightMyron 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.
2020-06-1148 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #316: Buried Treasures of Manga -- Here is GreenwoodWe 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.
2020-05-2825 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #315: Thor by Jason AaronIt's been consistently entertaining up to this point, but does Aaron's run have a worthy ending?
2020-05-1430 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #314: HarleenStjepan Sejic offers a gorgeous, if arguably incomplete, look at the origin of Harley Quinn.
2020-04-3028 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #313: Infinity Wars by Gerry DugganThere'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.
2020-04-1629 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #312: Curse Words/RumbleWhere I see if two B-list Image titles can add up to one great podcast!
2020-04-0229 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #311: Star Wars -- Doctor AphraOne of the best, weirdest, and darkest "Star Wars" titles out there.
2020-03-1939 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #310: Absolute CarnageMyron is back again to help dissect this generally decent "Venom"-centric event.
2020-03-0548 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #309: HappinessIt's a vampire story with two protagonists. One of whom is clearly more interesting than the other.
2020-02-2023 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #308: Best of 2019This year, it's all about the waiting. Featuring Samura, Gillen, King, Warren, Johnson and more!
2020-02-0655 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #307: X-Men -- House of X/Powers of XHave you stopped reading about the X-Men? Then it's time to come back...
2020-01-2338 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #306: Paper GirlsCliff Chiang's art is great, but Brian Vaughan's attempt at creating a puzzle box of a comic is decidedly uneven.
2020-01-0924 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #305: The Wild StormBecause 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.
2019-12-2653 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #304: Black ScienceDoes 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?
2019-12-1230 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #303: I Am A HeroIt takes more than just a gun to earn that designation as one of the best, and certainly the weirdest, zombie manga wraps up.
2019-11-2833 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #302: Prison SchoolA series whose dumbness is matched only by its hilarity and ambition in finding new ways to provide fanservice!
2019-11-1428 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #301: The Wicked + The DivineGillen and McKelvie stick the landing, even as they leave you wishing a certain character had run off with the ending.
2019-10-3127 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #300: JokerJohn 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.
2019-10-1758 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #299: Thief of Thieves"The Walking Dead" wasn't the only series started by Robert Kirkman to wrap up this year. Does it deliver a better ending?
2019-10-0331 minComic Picks By The GlickCo mic Picks #298: War of the RealmsThe best of Jason Aaron's run on "Thor?" Or just another so-so Marvel event?
2019-09-1920 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #297: Star Wars by Kieron GillenGillen made magic happen on "Darth Vader." Does he do it again here, with and without Salvador Larroca?
2019-09-0531 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #296: B.P.R.D. -- The Devil You KnowOkay... so this is how the "Hellboy" saga really ends.
2019-08-2226 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #295: Bendis at DCI 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."
2019-08-1544 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #294: Elfen Lied Omnibus vol. 1John 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.
2019-07-2533 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #293: The Walking Dead -- The EndIt was the worst kind of surprise for me. Was it a good ending, though?
2019-07-1135 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #292: Mage by Matt WagnerWagner's epic fantasy trilogy is finally complete after three decades. Was it worth the wait?
2019-06-2723 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #291: S.H.I.E.L.D. by Hickman and WeaverThe flaws of this series are forgivable under the scope of its ambition, ideas, and amazing art.
2019-06-1327 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #290: Buried Treasures of Manga -- Four Shojo StoriesIt will cost you, but this long out-of-print anthology is worth tracking down.
2019-05-3028 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #289: Kazuo Koike -- Offered/Crying FreemanI 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...
2019-05-1624 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #288: Detective Comics #1000Strap in as Myron and I take an in-depth look at this epic milestone anthology celebration of Batman.
2019-05-021h 24Comic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #287: Darth Vader -- Dark Lord of the SithThis series about the beginning of Darth Vader's infamy is inextricably linked in my mind to its predecessor. For worse, and for better.
2019-04-1830 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #286: Spider-GeddonFollows 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.
2019-04-0454 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #285: Frau FaustIn 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.
2019-03-2117 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #284: IncognegroWill 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?
2019-03-0724 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #283: The Apocrypha of Battle Angel AlitaA 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.
2019-02-2134 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #282: On HorrorI look at several recent releases, and one old one, to determine what makes a comic scary.
2019-02-0735 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #281: Best of 2018Featuring criminals, lovers, madmen, graphic violence, clever plans, and laugh-out-loud moments throughout the list, and all together in the year's best read.
2019-01-2446 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #280: Into the Spider-VerseJohn and I talk about the winter's BEST superhero movie while I go on about the comics that inspired it.
2019-01-1029 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #279: Aquaman by David and JohnsThe 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.)
2018-12-2730 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #278: Ghost in the Shell -- Global Neural NetworkDoes Kodansha's second manga-based anthology from international creators fare any better than its first?
2018-12-1331 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #277: Jeff Lemire -- Two Endings and One BeginningShould I hold out hope that "Gideon Falls" will turn out well after the endings of "Descender" and "Royal City?"
2018-11-2926 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #276: Batman -- White KnightJohn and I tackle a "Batman" story that does a lot of interesting things, but doesn't really take any of them far enough.
2018-11-1526 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #275: The Ancient Magus' BrideIt has its faults, but this series is still a captivating, magical take on the "Beauty and the Beast" setup.
2018-11-0323 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #274: Kill or be KilledThe latest series from Brubaker and Phillips is (unsurprisingly) really good!
2018-10-1822 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #273: Box BrownThe true stories of Andre the Giant, Andy Kaufman, and Tetris make for excellent reading in this graphic novelist's hands.
2018-10-0425 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #272: Dept. HMy thoughts on Matt Kindt's so-so follow up to "Mind MGMT."
2018-09-2015 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #271: Wild's EndIt's "The War of the Worlds" by way of "The Wind in the Willows" and exactly as fun as that sounds.
2018-09-0618 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #270: Doctor Strange -- DamnationWhy do a major "Doctor Strange" story in the pages of his ongoing title when you can spin it out into a mini-event instead!
2018-08-2323 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #269: Demon by Jason ShigaShiga's four-volume epic is as entertaining as it is depraved!
2018-08-0914 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #268: Princess JellyfishBEHOLD, the manga sitcom that wants to tell a serialized story but with characters too one-dimensional for it to work!
2018-07-2618 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #267: Avengers -- No SurrenderThree different "Avengers" titles wrap up their runs in this perfectly serviceable event series.
2018-07-1217 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #266: MetalScott Snyder and Greg Capullo follow up their classic "Batman" run with this event series that's the definition of "good, but not great."
2018-06-2823 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #265B: Ten Years of Picks -- MushishiI 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.
2018-06-1419 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #265A: Ten Years of Picks -- Aliens OmnibiI go back to our first podcast to talk about some of the best licensed comics around. Mostly in the first omnibus.
2018-06-1427 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #264: Hidden Treasures of Manga, Part 3Follows on from this, and this. I kept digging for more and this is what I found.
2018-05-3129 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #263: Avengers -- Infinity StuffMyron is back and we share our thoughts on "Infinity War" and the comics that inspired it.
2018-05-171h 02Comic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #262: Invincible (Full Return)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.
2018-05-0332 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #261: Silver Spoon/Kaguya-sama: Love is WarSteve 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."
2018-04-1949 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #260: Genshiken -- Second SeasonMy friend Steve joins us to talk about this sequel series that applies great characterization to a fundamentally unworkable premise.
2018-04-0546 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #259: Letter 44A killer premise has both good and bad soap opera foisted upon it in this sci-fi series.
2018-03-2220 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #258: SnowpiercerLiked the movie? Then you'll like the graphic novels that spawned it. The first volume, at least.
2018-03-0825 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #257: Black Panther by Christopher PriestJohn and I talk about the movie, and I go into what is widely considered to be the character's definitive run.
2018-02-2234 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #256: Catching Up With BatmanI 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."
2018-02-0822 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #255: ParasyteA manga so nice it's been license-rescued twice! Its new shonen manga anthology "Neo Parasyte m" is also pretty good.
2018-01-2531 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #254: Best of 2017One of the rare times where it was a lot easier to pick the worst of the year than the best.
2018-01-1141 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #253: Inuyashiki"Gantz" creator Hiroyu Oku tells all you youngsters to GET OFF HIS LAWN in this predictable sci-fi action series.
2017-12-2822 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #252: Secret EmpireNeither the worst Marvel event series nor without its own problems either.
2017-12-141h 09Comic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #251: JLA by Grant MorrisonThe "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.
2017-11-3038 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #250: Rachel RisingBetween this and "Echo," Terry Moore really needs to work on his endings.
2017-11-1612 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #249: BaltimoreIt 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).
2017-11-0222 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #248: Jeff Lemire -- Old Man Logan/Royal CityThe 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.
2017-10-1928 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #247: Batman -- The Dark Knight: The Master RaceThe genuinely awful sequel that everyone says its predecessor was.
2017-10-0529 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #246: Goodnight PunpunThere is tremendous skill and craft underpinning this incredibly, but not completely, depressing work.
2017-09-2123 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #245: Inhumans vs. X-MenWhoever 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.
2017-09-0727 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #244: Alias/Jessica JonesThe original "Alias" remains one of Bendis' best, and the Netflix series is pretty good too.
2017-08-2436 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #243: WolfsmundCan something good happen when a six-volume series runs for eight volumes?
2017-08-1021 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #242: Guardians of the Galaxy by BendisTruly, madly, deeply uneven. Right up to the end.
2017-07-2718 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #241: Ichi-FThis 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.
2017-07-1319 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #240: Civil War IIWas this event series as bad as everyone says it was? I look into it and some of its tie-ins.
2017-06-2925 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #239: Wonder WomanThe movie's good and there's plenty of other comics about Diana of Themyscira that are worth checking out too.
2017-06-1525 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #238: Never Collected -- Dark Horse Manga EditionSpiritual successor to this. Are there any interesting skeletons in the publisher's catalog of uncollected manga?
2017-06-0137 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #237: RevivalDoes Tim Seely and Mike Norton's (quirky) rural noir (horror) series stick the landing in its final volume?
2017-05-1820 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #236: Spider-Man -- The Clone ConspiracyThe latest Spider-event isn't bad, but never feels as epic as advertised.
2017-05-0422 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #235: ProphetWherein Brandon Graham and company try to make the best of what Rob Liefeld gave then.
2017-04-2019 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #234: Ghost in the ShellWhy was the original anime film being talked up so much in advance of the live-action version? Because the source manga is highly overrated.
2017-04-0639 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #233: SunstoneA comic with quality sex and substance? Yes, such a thing does exist!
2017-03-2323 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #232: X-23/Old Man LoganThe new movie is great. As for the comics which helped inspire it, well...
2017-03-0924 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #231: ChewJohn Layman and Rob Guillory's great, demented series comes to an end and I try to find out if the series was well-planned enough to make its ending work.
2017-02-2316 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #230: Lone Wolf & CubThe original series is a justified classic, while its long-delayed sequel manages a few redeeming qualities.
2017-02-0931 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #229: Tom KingBy most people's standards, he's the next big thing in comic book writing. Not mine, however.
2017-01-2637 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #228: Best of 2016Hickman! Kirkman! Mignola! Matsui! Gillen (x2)! Tsubaki! All of these creators and more can be found on my list.
2017-01-1237 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #227: Star Wars -- Darth VaderGillen and Larroca's epic about Vader's fall and rise is the best "Star Wars" comic to come out of Marvel and a must-read for all franchise fans.
2016-12-2921 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #226: X-Men -- Apocalypse WarsA deeply uneven thematic crossover where the one series I was prepared to ignore offered up the best story.
2016-12-1526 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #225: Attack on TitanMy initial thoughts were that it was terrible. Now I'm giving it a second try with the "Anthology" and first "Colossal Edition."
2016-12-0124 minComic Picks By The GlickComic Picks #224: TransmetropolitanIn light of our recent election I really had no choice but to revisit Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's eerily prescient and essential series.
2016-11-1725 min