Comic Books

October 26, 2019

390: The Batalogues, with Patty Hawkins!

Episode 390 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 episode, I share the talk Patty Hawkins and I had about Todd Phillip’s Joker. We put it in a Batman context,… Continue reading

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October 23, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41: A Short Break

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41 by Drew Barth A Short Break This week we’re going to take a break from the spooks—although there are some spooks in the comics I’m going to mention—and shift our focus to boxes. Everyone remembers Loot Crate from a couple years ago and the various comic-related paraphernalia… Continue reading

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October 8, 2019

Introducing The Batalogues!

Hi, gang! For over two years, I, Patty Hawkins, and Shawn McKee have been in production of a series that discusses the history of Batman, mostly in secondary media. Patty is Vergil to my Dante as we explore this cultural phenomenon that has endured for 80 continuous years. For those of you who want to… Continue reading

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October 2, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38: Dipping Into Horror

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38 by Drew Barth Dipping Into Horror It’s October this year, so you know what that means: thirteen months until the next presidential election. Also, Halloween—the best time of the year as a different kind of horror (finally) can grip our imaginations. From the ghosts, ghouls, and other… Continue reading

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September 25, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha Comics have always been political despite what some in the fandom scream on Twitter. If any singular creator’s work has enhanced the political in contemporary comics, it is writer Greg Pak. His work with Boom! Studios, like the series Ronin Island with Giannis… Continue reading

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Mech Cadet Yu, Ronin Island

September 18, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36: The Comeback

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36 by Drew Barth The Comeback On rare occasions, comic series go on extended hiatuses before returning in a glorious fashion. Two such series—Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ Pretty Deadly—have each made a such return after three-year breaks. Launched in 2013,… Continue reading

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September 4, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34: A Shorter Piece

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34 by Drew Barth A Shorter Piece Many of the works discussed in this blog over the past months have been long-running series or graphic novels. And all of those have been great. There’s an expansiveness to many of those works. In a way, many of these series… Continue reading

Comic Books, Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart, Graphic Novels, manga

August 28, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33: No One’s Left

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33 by Drew Barth No One’s Left I’ve talked about shonen manga a few times on here—both positively and negatively—but it’s hard to overstate the influence shonen as a genre has had on western comics. Many creators have talked about their love for the genre as younger kids… Continue reading

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August 21, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32: Fantasy House Party

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32 by Drew Barth Fantasy House Party With the recent publication of DIE #6, I was reminded of another series that I had written about previously: Coda. With its examination of fantasy tropes and classic D&D character classes as starting points for exploring what fantasy is and what it… Continue reading

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August 14, 2019

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #31: Paper Folding

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #31 by Drew Barth Paper Folding In comics, Brian K. Vaughn is a great character writer. Between Y: The Last Man, Runaways, or the perennial favorite, Saga, Vaughn has proven himself a master of character—whether it be character creation, character arcs, or specific character defining moments. He has… Continue reading

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