Comic Books

September 16, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #87: Looking At What’s There

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #87 by Drew Barth Looking At What’s There Abstraction is one of the key components of comics. Nothing we see on the page is real—we only ever see a representation of reality through an artist interpreting it. Comics are interesting since they can play with this abstraction and… Continue reading

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September 2, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #86: Mortuary in the Stars

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #86 by Drew Barth Mortuary in the Stars One of the heaviest lines in comics is “there was a time when the Old Gods died…” from Jack Kirby’s New Gods #1. From that fertile ground comes We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1 by Al Ewing and… Continue reading

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August 26, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #85: I Can Feel It In The Air Tonight

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #85 by Drew Barth I Can Feel It In The Air Tonight Oh, Lord. You break one guy’s neck and he’s your nemesis for life. But, then again, Maxwell Lord is a great foil: manipulative, mind-controlling, ruthless, blood-thirsty—everything Wonder Woman can stand against at a base character level.… Continue reading

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August 19, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #84: How Bad Can A Dream Be?

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #84 by Drew Barth How Bad Can A Dream Be? There have been plenty of stories that deal with dreams. Either characters having to jump into a friend’s head to dissect what about their dreams is disturbing them or having to pull the dream out into the real… Continue reading

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August 5, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82: Energized and Anthologized

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized A good anthology is hard to find sometimes. Luckily, Peow released the first volume of their Kickstarter-funded anthology series, Ex.Mag, this past month. Their original campaign promised three volumes centering on three sub-genres: cyberpunk, paranormal romance, and dark fantasy. We’ll be… Continue reading

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July 29, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81: Pros of Cons

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81 by Drew Barth Pros of Cons Due to the steady spike in COVID cases across the country and the villainous ineptitude at the federal level, our lives are still rather sporadic. While many services and businesses are forced to open unnecessarily, conventions have been canceled or delayed… Continue reading

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July 22, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80 by Drew Barth I Won’t Make a Duran Duran Joke Graphic memoirs are one of the most important genres within comics. The interplay between memory and picture can resonate immediately with readers and allows them to better witness the past. And recently, no other graphic memoir has… Continue reading

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Cecil Castellucci’, Girl on Film

July 15, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79: Take It To the Banks

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79 by Drew Barth Take it to the Banks I’ve mentioned them briefly before, but TKO is doing something different with monthly comics. Instead of waiting for trade paperbacks while a monthly series comes out, they opt to publish the entire story at once either in a collected… Continue reading

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The Banks, TKO comics

July 11, 2020

Episode 428: David James Poissant!

Episode 428 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, I talk to my friend David James Poissant about novel-writing, sex scenes, The X-Men, graphic art, focus, and many other… Continue reading

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David James Poissant, Lake Life, The Heaven of Animals

July 8, 2020

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78: Looking Inward

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78 by Drew Barth Looking Inward There is absolute precision in Gabriella Giandelli’s lines. When we look at a work like Interiorae, we find the best of Giandelli’s aesthetic: panel by panel of precise lines and a focus on compassion unlike anything else in comics. Interiorae is about a single… Continue reading

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Gabriella Giandelli, Interiorae

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