Comic Picks By The Glick

Stephen King’s signature work gets an enjoyable series of prequels that still could’ve and should’ve been even better.

Listen Now:

 Standard Podcasts: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (38)

The anime club that I attend (or rather, hang out in front of with all of my other friends who graduated from the college that hosts it) has semi-regular shopping trips to the Frank and Sons collectible show and the Little Tokyo area each quarter.  Generally it’s a great trip to pick up some comics, manga, and anime swag and t-shirts.  This time was probably the first time I’ve gone on the trip and not come back with any manga.  Instead, I just made a list of stuff to pick up from either Amazon or at Fanime this weekend.  The list includes:

Clover Omnibus Oishinbo 3 Pluto 3 Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 2 Mushishi 7 Nana 16 Flower of Life 4

Huh… I think I’ve got my list of what to review for the next time I write one of these posts.  We’ll see.  Anyway, onto this week’s reviews:

(more…)

For those of you who weren’t scared off by the title, you’re bound to find something to interest you in my look at highbrow manga.

Listen Now:

 Standard Podcasts: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (48)

So I did get around to seeing “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend. I’m saving the bulk of my opinion on the assumption that we’ll be talking about it on “No Podcast for Old Men” in the next week or two, but I will say that I thought it was alright. Jackman nails the character of Wolverine like he did in the “X-men” movies, the rest of the cast also did a pretty good job with theirs (and my fears that Liev Schreiber was “too cerebral” an actor for Sabertooth were mostly unfounded), and things blew up nicely. The film’s biggest problem is that it fails to emotionally involve you in what’s going on. It has some decent ideas about how Wolverine became who he is, but the execution fell flat more often than not.

So for now, it seems that comics are still the place to go for the Wolverine stories that really matter (assuming you’re the kind of person that thinks a Wolverine story can “really matter”). On that note, the rumor came out today that writer Jason Aaron, best known for “Scalped” and assorted other Wolverine projects, will be taking over “Punisher MAX” with artist Steve Dillon with issue #75. After I lost my reason to care about the series after Garth Ennis left, naming Aaron as the new ongoing writer would actually get me to buy the series again. If you’re wondering why that’s a good thing, just click on the link below.

(more…)