Comic Books

March 15, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #215: Turning Against

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #215 by Drew Barth Turning Against I’ve written in the past about how comics can help to illuminate some more obscure moments (to a western audience’s understanding) in history. Much of the time, these accounts can help to draw readers in with compelling visuals that create immediate connections to the people being… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, History

March 8, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #214: It’s the Meatiest

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #214 by Drew Barth It’s the Meatiest Months ago, I took a look at the first issue of Juni Ba’s Monkey Meat and praised the meta-advertisement narrative it took. I had been, at the time, excited for a series that would explore that kind of narrative further and if it could get… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

March 1, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213: Patchy Stories

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213 by Drew Barth Patchy Stories Should most books and movies about fairy tales disappear, we could recite them orally without much trouble. Familiarity and simplicity keeps fairy tales in the storytelling zeitgeist and, as a result, makes them ripe for reinterpretation. How many times have we seen… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

February 22, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212: Lasting Impact

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212 by Drew Barth Lasting Impact How many times have we heard the phrase “the battle of the century” in any context from sports to cooking to music only to be disappointed? Because, if we’re talking about history, it’s hard not to think of Jack Johnson’s most famous… Continue reading

Biography, Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Graphic Novels, History

February 15, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211: One Shot Day

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211 by Drew Barth One Shot Day I love a good one-shot. Sometimes we just need a short piece of comics to see a team of creators really flex what they know about the medium in under a hundred pages. And when it’s a one-shot that works with… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

February 8, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210: Rush of Blood

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210 by Drew Barth Rush of Blood Greed can make us all monstrous. Sometimes this is more literal than not. Greed can start to strip away chunks of humanity like trying to dig gold out of your skin. Anyone in the Yukon Territory during the gold rush at… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, History

January 20, 2023

The Curator of Schlock #405: Black Adam

The Curator of Schlock #405 by Jeff Shuster Black Adam Not Black Atom. I was making myself at home in the one bedroom apartment of the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando. I examined his shelves and noticed a collection of Red Rose Tea figurines. The most prominent ones were woodland creatures and… Continue reading

Comic Books, Film, The Curator of Schlock

January 18, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208: Ending at the Ending

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208 by Drew Barth Ending at the Ending Apocalypse stories abound. The world ends in one of a dozen different ways and people need to live through it. But what’s most significant between these stories is the timing of them. When does the apocalypse happen and when is… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Science Fiction

January 13, 2023

The Curator of Schlock #404: Morbius

The Curator of Schlock #404 by Jeff Shuster Morbius It’s Morbin’ Time There I was in the secret hideout of the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando. By secret hideout, I mean his one bedroom apartment. I went to take a shower, lathering up with Dove sensitive skin soap and massaging my follicles… Continue reading

Comic Books, Film, The Curator of Schlock

January 11, 2023

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207: Cross Face

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207 by Drew Barth Cross Face One of the major questions in comics over the past forty years has typically centered on how they would work in the real world. How could Batman function in a place like New York? Could Spawn just walk down the street? Are… Continue reading

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