Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to BreakHeart #280: Sleight of Hand
I often forget that Zatara, one of the earliest magicians in the DC Universe, made his first appearance in Action Comics #1 in his own set of adventures alongside Superman’s. And that his daughter, Zatanna, turns 60 this year after decades of guest spots and appearances over any medium a comic character could show up in, is… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #278: It’s Not a Loop, It’s an Ocean
While meta-narrative detective stories in which the titular character must find out who killed him in his own story can be interesting, I feel suspicious whenever this trope crops up. Peter Milligan, Raül Fernandez, Giada Marchisio, and Jeff Eckleberry’s first issue of Profane uses the trope to perfection. From the opening panel, Will Profane lays out… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #277: Confronting the Pile, Part 2
You didn’t think the pile was over already, did you? That first run that I wrote about last week was only the tip of an old iceberg that’s been sitting on my shelf collecting dust between house moves. Since we have nearly four years worth of stories to catch up on, we may as well keep going… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #276: Confronting the Pile
Since the onset of Covid and how that affected my comic buying habits over the past few years—my home shop began shipping out pull lists early in the pandemic and never really stopped—my to be read pile had become uncharacteristically large. Here in 2024, when I pulled an issue from October 2020, I knew I… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #275: And So We Return
Over the past few years, many comics take a quick break before returning to their worlds. Creative teams need breaks. While some never come back after their first arc and stay unfinished for years, we do see others pop back up after brief pauses to finish the next steps in their stories. After covering the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #274: Sam’s Universe of Energy
Living in the opening of a climate crisis, I’m watching for something good to happen—an uptick in renewable energy sources, fusion energy finally achieved, or another miracle. Comics are bastions of fantastical thinking, right? Only in the pages of a comic could we see a tower that provides almost limitless energy by harvesting the personifications… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #273: Baby, You’re a Haunted House
Houses are haunted by what we leave behind in them. For instance, a house I used to live in is haunted by the collection of coolers we accidentally left in the attic. In another instance, a house may be haunted by the giant machine designed to peer into the afterlife and make contact with the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #270: Doomed Together
The DC Universe has a lot of teams and a lot of team books. The amount of Justice Leagues, series, spin-offs, and event series is enough to fill most small libraries on their own. Over the decades, more teams would be added to the universe before the majority of them would slip into obscurity. But… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #269: What to Expect with Mechs
I’ve espoused the merits of giant robots for years now and I doubt I’ll ever stop. There’s just something about people coming together to create a titanic effigy of steel that is ripe for creating myriad stories. This is the main reason that when a new comic series releases with some connection to giant robots,… Continue reading
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