Comic Books

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #73 by Drew Barth Family Stories Many of our best stories come from our families—I always break out the one about my great-grandparents bottling liquor for Capone during Prohibition—and those are the stories that stay with us the longest. They’re the stories that are told through our childhoods… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break our Heart #70 by Drew Barth Page Scrolling One of the biggest challenges for comics over the past decade has been digital presentation. Even with guided readers and motion comics, there hasn’t been a solid way for readers to comfortably read comic and manga pages electronically. Outside of larger tablets,… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #68 by Drew Barth Post-Friday It’s the final Wednesday in this April that has felt like it’s lasted maybe a week, and we are getting reports that Diamond Distributors will begin shipping again come May 20th. But in this interim, other avenues for distribution have opened. DC has… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #67 by Drew Barth Deep Time It’s about mid-way to Halloween, so you know what that means: it’s time to talk about ghosts. The history of ghosts in comic fiction is long, storied, and paved with some of the best characters the medium has to offer. Everything from… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #66 by Drew Barth Crate Digging We find ourselves in week three of Diamond Distributors’ hiatus from weekly comics, so it’s time for some catching up. Personally, I’ve been going through a backlog nearing two hundred issues, but during this isolation I’ve also had time to dig through… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #65 by Drew Barth Detective of the Century John Allison is one of the most consistent comic writers of the past twenty-five years. Starting out with Bobbinsin 1998, his characters and story evolved into Scary-Go-Rounda few years after (around the time I jumped in), which led to Bad… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #64 by Drew Barth The Big Reads We’ve got some spare time on our hands. I personally have been watching way more cooking videos on YouTube than I thought possible. Luckily, there’s a wealth of longer comic content that can help bridge those days a bit better than… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #63 by Drew Barth We’re All In This Together If you’re like me, you enjoy the weekly excursion to your local comic shop every Wednesday to pick up your fresh batch of monthlies. But our weeks are getting different now. Even Diamond, the main distributor of comics for… Continue reading