Comic Books

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132 by Drew Barth Peeling the Layers According to the cinematic touchstone, Shrek, onions have layers. They can be peeled until the core is reached. But then no one wants to talk about the skin. But we should consider the onion skin, particularly Edgar Camacho’s Onion Skin. Broken up into… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #131 by Drew Barth Which Witch The idea of the witch has changed greatly in comic fiction over the past fifty years. From the wart-nosed villains in any adventure and horror comic to a contemporary symbol of magic that can sidle more on the chaotic neutral side of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #130 by Drew Barth A Question With No Name Last week, I talked about Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, DC’s large-scale Black Label books, and the impact those books have had on DC’s new label so far. But Dead Earth was only one piece of the broader series of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #129 by Drew Barth Large Scale A couple years ago, DC dissolved their Vertigo imprint and started a series of replacements. Half a dozen pop-up imprints came and went with each maintaining that independent spirit Vertigo espoused. There was also the Black Label. This was another branch of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #128 by Drew Barth Let’s Take a Walk How often do we see things that no one else can see? For the most part, there’s always something floating in your vision that only gets harder to see the more you try to focus on it. But what about… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #126 by Drew Barth Sector’s End It’s been a full year since I last wrote about the first handful of issues of Far Sector and we return now to the series at its conclusion. I mentioned before how Far Sector was the kind of comic we needed at… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #125 by Drew Barth MURDER?! What do we think of when we think of Hellboy? I mean besides Ron Perlman. For the most part, we’re thinking of hellish denizens, ghouls, creatures, and the humanity inherent in most of them. But a series that has been going on for… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #124: Banned I mentioned last week how important it is to have stories from different points in history that, in the west, are relatively unknown. There are a wealth of stories around the world from different points of time that end up buried under our own history. But… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #123 by Drew Barth Looking Through History The true start of comics and graphic novels is a contentious subject. Depending on who you ask, the idea of the graphic novel didn’t until begin until 1978 with Will Eisner’s A Contract with God. Others would contend it can go… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #122 by Drew Barth Cult Classic Crate Digging DC Comics in the 80s was an interesting time. With the publication of Watchmen in 1986 and the slow eroding of the Comics Code since the 70s, they were apt to make some wider choices with what kinds of stories… Continue reading