Comic Books

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #30 by Drew Barth I Was Told By Imagine, as wild as this sounds, that the United States becomes a theocratic, imperialistic super-state that invades Canada because the Lord said so. That is the story-ground that Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram set their series Little Bird upon. Little… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #29 by Drew Barth Cracking Open the Vault I talked a few weeks ago about the closure of Vertigo, the first mainstream purveyor of independent-minded comic work. Vertigo’s spirit has lived on in other publishers like Image, Oni Press, Aftershock, Black Mask, and many othesr. Fairly recently, like… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #28 by Drew Barth Pros of Cons Another year and another round of San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. I’m not going to lie, it’s hard to keep track of  the avalanche of information continually coming out of the San Diego Convention Center. The problem with a… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #26 by Drew Barth The Wild Storm Nearly thirty years ago, we saw the birth of Jim Lee’s WildStorm imprint within Image Comics. The name, taken from Lee’s WildC.A.T.S. and Stormwatch, would typify 90s extreme comics: ultra violence, para-military mercenaries, spandex tighter than skin, spikes on everything, and… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #25 by Drew Barth Triple Threat A little over a decade ago, Top Cow Productions created a comic competition known as Pilot Season. Pilot Season began with a simple premise: get six creative teams to each produce the first issue of a longer-running series and pitch that story… Continue reading