Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #357: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 42
The more I look at the pile whenever I’m in my room, it only grows larger. Even after all of these articles, it has only increased. If I’ll have any New Year’s Resolution, it’ll be to finally complete that pile and have my shelf space finally open again. And for this week, I’m digging deep… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #356: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 41
The two piles are locked in a continual battle of who can largest over a longer period of time. In one corner of the room are the single issues—the floppies that accumulate every month with each shipment from my local shop. On the other side is the graphic novel shelf—volumes that I keep thinking I’ll… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #354: It Keeps Happening
Another year, another shout into the void. I can only hope many of you are surviving as best you can while things continue to get weird, despicable, and hilarious in varying measures depending on the news day. But, despite everything, the medium we can’t tear ourselves away from persists. As has become a tradition at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #353: On the Other Side of the War
It’s very nearly Christmas, so that means it’s time to talk about colonization. Last week’s look at Susumu Higa’s Sword of Sand from Okinawa focused almost exclusively on the events of World War II and how the residents of the Okinawan islands dealt with their homes becoming a large-scale battleground. In the second half of the book, Mabui, we see the impact of the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
History tends to focus on the fighters, not on civilians. That gap is explored in the first chapter of Susumu Higa’s Okniawa collection, Sword of Sand. Okinawa is the smallest of Japan’s main islands. The Okinawa prefecture itself has a tenuous relationship with mainland Japan. When the Imperial Japanese Army arrives to the various islands surrounding Okinawa during… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #351: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 40
The last time I remember seeing snow was before the plague began. And even what I remember of it then was a fleeting slurry that hung in the air for a few moments before melting on the ground. It’s been even longer since I’ve seen snow that piled up high enough to support my weight… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #347: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 39
While there are times when looking at the pile that I do see a series that I’ve been waiting to finish piling up, I remember that there are others just beneath that pile that have finished without my noticing. How often has this happened? Hey, man, don’t even worry about that. And why would we… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #340: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 36
And so we return to the pile. And we also return to a series I’ve written about multiple times in the past, but one I can’t stop going back to as the entire structure of it has been fascinating. We see in a series like Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, Luis NCT, and Mar Silvestre’s Briar that we can expand on… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #338: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 35
Did you expect the pile to be so easily finished? Even though it’s been a month since I last dove into it, that doesn’t keep the series from piling up further and further. But this is one that’s been sitting in the pile for a few years now—it’s been nearly four years since I looked at the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #336: Creating an Ending
It’s been just about a year since I last covered any release from Marvel. Not for any of the original boycotting reasons that I had been working with previously, but simply because there wasn’t a huge amount piquing my interest. But then the previews came through for a series doing something that I always enjoy: providing a… Continue reading
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