Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #152: Only Fools
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #152 by Drew Barth Only Fools I began my year reading a fairly long novel in the form of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and am ending it with a similar tale in Si Spurrier, Nathan Gooden, Addison Duke, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’s This Hungry Earth Reddens Under Snowclad… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #151: Dolly Parton Reference
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #151 by Drew Barth Dolly Parton Reference It’s finally a Wednesday… Finally here… Wednesday. And that means it’s a Jojo Wednesday this week. A bit over two years since the conclusion of the animated adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, we’re finally at the premiere… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #150: Last Short
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #150 by Drew Barth Last Short Once again, we return to ShortBox—one of the best curators of the comics medium. Over the past few years, Zainab Akhtar has provided the world with a box of comics, candy, and wonderfully illustrated prints from a wide-range of creators—all of whom… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #149: Noir-vember
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147: Telling Tall Tales
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147 by Drew Barth Telling Tall Tales I’ve been reading comics for a bit—I think I started sometime around 2006—and while that isn’t as long as many other people, I’ve still be around long enough to see the different eras and trends emerge in that time. Among… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146: Old Cat, New City
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #145: Guess We’ll DIE
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #144: Oh, Spooks?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #144 by Drew Barth Oh, Spooks? Is it already the spooky season again? Is this also the second year in which this article has come out during the plague? Yes to both, but at least the former is a fun kind of scary instead of the existential terror… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #143: Ripping Through the Future
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
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Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #142: Another Day, Another Crisis
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
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