Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #324: A Far Off Time

I’ve talked about anthologies multiple times in this article in the past—there’s very little to not like about them. But when it comes to American comics culture, there hasn’t really been a mainstream anthology series that’s been consistently published. We have our shorter anthologies here and there for a few years, but there’s nothing here Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #321: Rooted in the Past

Growing up, I remember the woods as small spaces between corn and wheat fields. They were staccato bursts of green between the yellow-beige that surrounds nearly every small town in the midwest. But those woods were always a constant, as isolated as they were. Stories inevitably crop up about them—who was lost in them in Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #320: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 27

Earlier this month, I wrote about one part of my pile—the collected editions I need to buy since I can’t get my single issues to complete a series—so now it’s time to move onto the issues I was able to get a hold of from the same series. But this one comes with a bit more Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #319: Our Favorite Martian

I remember being 11 years-old when the first episode of Justice League premiered. This was the first time I’d seen many of the heroes that would become staples of my comic reading future: Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash. But there was this teal-colored martian that I didn’t know existed until that moment. He was something I’d Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #318: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 26

I’ve mentioned before that my pile has extended to my bookshelf of graphic novels and collected editions. And so I need to air that out even more. But this was also to help clear out the regular pile as well since the two volumes I’m looking at are the first portion of another story told Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #317: Running to the Future

I don’t know how many mecha series there are in comics every year, but I always make an attempt to dive into as many as I can. Could it be the residual impact of Pacific Rim on my psyche twelve years later? Perhaps. But it’s also just the allure of giant robots and the suite of stories Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #316: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 25

So, we’ve hit twenty-five of these things. I’ve got to start reading more often for spontaneous fun again. Going back to the original pile, though, there’s always going to be some series that have been dust-collecting there that began as limited series before being picked up for something longer. That happened with Once and Future and Damn Them Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #311: The Detective Eats His Own Tail

I’ve read enough Grant Morrison comics to know that characters meeting their creators rarely goes well for the character. And while I did touch on the first issue of Peter Milligan, Raül Fernandez, Giada Marchisio, and Jeff Eckleberry’s Profane, the final issue came out not too long—for me at least—ago and the story continues its playing with the Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #310: Never Blunders

Last year, I wrote about the first issue of Juni Ba, Chris O’Halloran, and Aditya Bidikar’s The Boy Wonder. This was a first issue that brought us back into the perspective of Damian Wayne and his first bit of time as Robin. While things didn’t go well for him, they were going even less well for the child Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #309: The Big Picture

The image of New York City is something ingrained in the DNA of comics. DC’s initial office on Broadway, the main hub of activity in the Marvel universe, and countless other creators can all trace their origins to the city. And in that urbanist center, stories swell. The throngs of people, the iconic skyscrapers and Continue reading
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