Comic Books

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

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #206 by Drew Barth Another One of These Years It’s a new year and it’s time again to look forward to the multitude of work coming out that runs the gambit of short story collections, the minutia of history, and the good old weird shit that you and… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #204 by Drew Barth Long Road to Somewhere Most journey narratives end with our protagonists returning home with the splendors of treasure, knowledge, or both to an adoring hometown crowd that celebrates the transformation they’ve undergone in the time they’ve been away. That home is the root—the place… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199 by Drew Barth Two Perspectives Here Before You If there’s a medium that can use its visuals to their fullest extent when representing characters, it’s comics. There are only so many ways for film to show a person—but the face doesn’t change much without hours in the… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198 by Drew Barth Cat Time How much time do we actually have? We sleep, roughly, eight hours and work for an additional nine. But then we have overtime and all the preparations for getting to work and the chores we need to deal with to keep our… Continue reading