Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #384: Duel in the Deep
If you haven’t been noticing a trend over the past few months, I’ve been writing about two series: Promethea and The Invisibles. The former was due to coming into a collection of the entire series s a result of some patient used book store-diving and the former because of what happened as I was reading through Promethea. The usage… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #380: Mistakes Are Made
I’ve never taken a gap year, but I’ve heard they’re nice. I would guess they were even nicer after being shot in the side and injected with a drug that made you think you were watching your fingers get cut off one-by-one, but that hasn’t happened to me (yet). But such a gap year happened… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #379: And Exiting Elsewhere
Escalation is narratively routine: you start slow before getting to the point where you can meet god or go to space. Sometimes, though, “slow” can involve an immediate escalation to meeting god, so long as your setting allows. If the setting allows you to peer into a collapsing hyper-dimension exacerbated by the nanoparticles of a dreaded… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #378: Deeper Down the Well
Any good team book needs a few issues where you learn more about the people we’re following. While the first volume of The Invisibles focuses primarily on Dane McGowan—our lad is going to be the focal-point for much of the series—for the second volume, we start seeing the foundations of others on the team and a basis… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #377: What Is a Revolution?
We typically think of the ways in which monthly comics changed in the 80s with series like Watchmen, Doom Patrol, Batman: Year One, and a host of others. But the shifting visual narrative perspectives culminated in the 90s with many of the classic series that would come to define Vertigo not only as an imprint, but as a kind… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #375: We Will Follow
And it begins again. But this time a little differently as this volume begins in the middle of a story instead of neatly at an arc’s opening. All does become clear, though, as this particular volume continues as we have one of the more major state changes this time—but then the continually shifting world beneath… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #374: For as Long as the Path Goes
The path of Promethea is a long one. Or at least it’s a convoluted one. The path, for the most part, is many things and goes in many different directions, sometimes looping back upon itself endlessly. But then that’s a part of the structure of the story Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #371: It Never Ends, Does It?
It’s 2009 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run on a character-defining run for Batwoman. It’s 2026 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run for Batwoman. Sometimes things exist in cycles and sometimes time finds a way to rhyme across nearly two decades. It was that… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #370: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 50
So, interesting turn of events in the world as the comic I’ve pulled from the pile that I had been planning to cover since last week is somehow evergreen in terms of some of its subject matter. At times, it’s hard not to look back on certain series and see them almost as hyperbolic in… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #369: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 49
The nebulous pile highlights how convoluted time has become. That pile can hide a series I had almost completely forgotten about due to only being sent the first issue—fueling my blood-feud with Diamond further—and falling into obscurity on my bookshelf. But I’ve been clearing some things and, despite reviewing that first issue nearly five years ago, we… Continue reading
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