Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #121: Green Thumbing Your Nose
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #121 by Drew Barth Green Thumbing Your Nose Comics can be ideal for didactic texts. It’s the reason Understanding Comics is a comic itself. It’s also why IKEA manuals use their own universal visual language to show how to build. And it’s why manuals and guides as comics can… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #120: Have the Time of Your Death
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #120 by Drew Barth Have the Time of Your Death Death is final. Death in comics, a bit less so. Just look at Deadman. Or Swamp Thing. Or the legion of characters that have died and come back to life a dozen times. Their reasons for returning are,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #119: Oh God, It’s Coming This Way
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #119 by Drew Barth Oh God, It’s Coming This Way I’ve said it once before and I will repeat it again and again: John Allison is one of the most consistently great writers in modern comics. I’ve gone over his history in the previous article where I took… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #118: Swamps & Things
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #118 by Drew Barth Swamps & Things Swamps are, for the most part, points of transformation. There is that disgust of the slime that permeates the water and trees. Nothing comes out of a swamp the same as when it came in. Just look at Swamp Thing. Or… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #117: To Wear an Influence
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #117 by Drew Barth To Wear an Influence I remember being a tiny child and setting our VCR to record Power Rangers and Big Bad Beetleborgs while I was at school or asleep and I would sit in front of the TV, half watching as I rewound the newly… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #116: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 3
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #116 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized Vol. 3 Where were we the last time Peow released a volume of their Ex.Mag series? Oh, right, a decade ago in terms of major historical events. Cool. But hey, comics! Ex.Mag is now finishing up its three-volume run with its… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #115: How Bad Can It Be?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #115 by Drew Barth How Bad Can It Be? Long ago, in the pre-plague days, I was asked at my local comic shopif I would like to sign up for releases from a new publisher called Bad Idea. Knowing literally nothing about them, I decided, eh, why not?… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #113: A Get Together
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #113: A Get Together Some of the most popular manga are what is known as “slice-of-life” series. They are, as the name implies, series about the main characters’ lives and the various hijinks that permeate them. As stories, they’re meant to let the reader relax and lose themselves… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #112: I’m Talking About Isolation
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #112: I’m Talking About Isolation If you listen closely to the wind, you can hear me once again espousing the tenets of a good first issue: strong world-building, plot introduction, character establishment, etc. Luckily, Vault Comics has a new series that deals with the dead in a way… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #111: Under the Radar
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #111 by Drew Barth Under the Radar If we think back to comics during and after World War II an interesting trend emerges. We had the Golden Age of comics and all of the heroes and horror stories that brought—which then led to the adoption of Comics Code… Continue reading
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