Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
History tends to focus on the fighters, not on civilians. That gap is explored in the first chapter of Susumu Higa’s Okniawa collection, Sword of Sand. Okinawa is the smallest of Japan’s main islands. The Okinawa prefecture itself has a tenuous relationship with mainland Japan. When the Imperial Japanese Army arrives to the various islands surrounding Okinawa during Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #351: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 40
The last time I remember seeing snow was before the plague began. And even what I remember of it then was a fleeting slurry that hung in the air for a few moments before melting on the ground. It’s been even longer since I’ve seen snow that piled up high enough to support my weight Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #347: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 39
While there are times when looking at the pile that I do see a series that I’ve been waiting to finish piling up, I remember that there are others just beneath that pile that have finished without my noticing. How often has this happened? Hey, man, don’t even worry about that. And why would we Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #340: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 36
And so we return to the pile. And we also return to a series I’ve written about multiple times in the past, but one I can’t stop going back to as the entire structure of it has been fascinating. We see in a series like Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, Luis NCT, and Mar Silvestre’s Briar that we can expand on Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #338: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 35
Did you expect the pile to be so easily finished? Even though it’s been a month since I last dove into it, that doesn’t keep the series from piling up further and further. But this is one that’s been sitting in the pile for a few years now—it’s been nearly four years since I looked at the Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #336: Creating an Ending
It’s been just about a year since I last covered any release from Marvel. Not for any of the original boycotting reasons that I had been working with previously, but simply because there wasn’t a huge amount piquing my interest. But then the previews came through for a series doing something that I always enjoy: providing a Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #334: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 34
Finally, the equilibrium we all strive for in my titles. Anyway, let’s pull another series from the depths of the pile that’s actually a sequel to a series I had covered back before this article was a year old. And while the opening of that article may not have aged all that well, there still remains the kernel Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #331: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 32
While trying to ignore the numbers being just barely off, I dive further into the pule to find a series that has been sitting there for close to a year. But this is at least one that I had covered previously, and it’s just as appropriate now as we’re seeing dozens of Christmas in July sales Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #327: A Room Full of Corpses
One of the prevailing conspiracy theories in this country’s history has been how a secret cabal of some kind—rich people, aliens, subterranean terrors, etc—has really been in control of everything happening and that whatever else we see is just spectacle. But for those doing the controlling, the spectacle does have to get boring after a Continue reading
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Episode 674: Peter Kuper, interviewed by Drew Barth!
Episode 674 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, Drew Barth interviews the legendary artist Peter Kuper about his newest book, Insectopolis, a work of creative entomology made while alone in the New York Public Library during the Covid epidemic. Continue reading
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