Comic Books

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #149 by Drew Barth Noir-vember What’s in a grave? Usually a body. Usually a body that matches the grave listed above it. But if that was always the case, we wouldn’t have dozens of conspiracies about who could be in which grave. And that kind of conspiracy is… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146 by Drew Barth Old Cat, New City Gotham is an essential setting in the DC Universe. We’ve seen it change dozens of times over the years. How far into the future can the city go and still be recognizable? Cliff Chiang pushes Gotham far into a troubled… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #145 by Drew Barth Guess We’ll DIE Let’s reach our way back to the second thing I ever wrote for this article and talk about what is now one of my favorite comics of this century: Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ DIE. It’s been over two years since… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #143 by Drew Barth Ripping Through the Future It’s been a few months since I last talked about James Harren and Dave Stewart’s Ultramega, so I’ll have to fix that. One of the most kinetic series in the last few years, Ultramega’s first issue was the kind of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #142 by Drew Barth Another Day, Another Crisis Since the early 60s with the “Flash of Two Worlds” story, the idea of the crisis would come to define every major event in DC’s history. With Infinite Frontier by Joshua Williamson, Xermanico, Tom Derenick, Jesús Merino, Paul Pelletier, Norm… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #141: Last Witch Standing Earlier this year, I took a look at a new series from Conor McCreery, V.V. Glass, Natalia Nesterenko, and Jim Campbell: The Last Witch. As the year has wound down, the series ended and the series has now been collected as a trade. But… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #140 by Drew Barth Black & Blue & Gold Anthologies are an oddity in comics. They used to be the most popular formats for telling stories—many beloved pre-Code horror series were anthologies—but then they seemed to drop off. Anthologies still exist, to some extent, but they’ve become rarer… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #139 by Drew Barth A Wide Range of Magic Comics, for the most part, come in a couple forms. There’s the monthly floppies that open up like a pamphlet; the newspaper strips read horizontally every day; and the graphic novels that cozy up next to the rest of… Continue reading