Comic Books
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #251: A Long Path
We cannot overstate the importance of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime, especially after the recent release of The Boy and The Heron (after his fourth retirement). His name is enshrined in animation history. But outside of Japan, his manga has received little fanfare. While Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind did receive a US release—eventually—much of his other comics… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #249: Crisis New and Old
At times, canon is the bedrock from which stories spring, while at others it’s the cement shoes dragging characters and story down to increasingly murky depths in which only the most seasoned comics readers can tread. Luckily, we have stories like The New Champion of Shazam by Josie Campbell, Evan “Doc” Shaner, and Becca Carey to help… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #248:
Comics are fertile ground for folklore. Many of its heroes derive from myths and tall-tales. Reinterpretation of those tales is what most fans crave as the originals have become so ingratiated into popular culture’s mythical zeitgeist; we need our expectations toyed with to see the story in a more interesting light. If there’s an illustrator… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #247: A Bridge Even Further
Of my many fears, collapsing bridges are most recent. When stuck in traffic on a highway fly-over, it’s hard not to think of it splintering and cracking apart while trapped in my hatchback. When faced with the inevitable, our minds simply don’t know what to do to escape. This loss of control appears in the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #246: A Hot Mug of Ghosts
I now grind my own coffee beans. If this indicates that I’m getting older, I suppose I embrace that. While some of us grind beans every morning, some do it in the deep night to keep sleep—and monsters—at bay. Or rather, one person does that while we follow a life of continual caffeine and ghost… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #245: Please Sleep
Some months ago, I looked at the first issue of Briar and delved into how we keep coming back to fairy tales. As I mentioned earlier, a distinct panic throbbed through Briar‘s pages with the sudden change of the world from the perspective of Briar Rose, and with the finale of its first arc Christopher Cantwell, Germán… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #244: Flash Fractal
Wally West was the first Flash I can remember. But then most of my early comics knowledge came from the Justice League cartoon. In that, Wally was really the only Flash. Jay Gerrick was more of a special guest for a Crisis on Two Earths send-up and none of the kids were around yet. Barry Allen was maybe mentioned… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #243: The Fear Between Your Heart
Liminality is a popular trope in modern horror. Look anywhere online and you’ll find pictures of abandoned malls, highway rest stops after midnight, or the current liminal du jour, the Backrooms. But what all of these have in common is their fleeting uncanniness—that these are meant to be areas we walk through without a second… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #242: Hi-Diddly-Ho
Back in April, I looked at Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Letizia Cadonici, Alessandro Santoro, and Becca Carey’s The Neighbors. Back then, I applauded the story’s dread and the unnerving feeling of being other in an isolated town. Not simply othered for being outsiders from the city, but othered for being an interracial family, for Oliver being a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #241: Ego Trippin’ at the Gates of Gotham
The best autobiographies give us the history and context behind someone to help create a more complete picture of their world and what went into making them the person who’s writing the book in the first place. Grant Morrison, famed writer and purveyor of the strange and magical, was born long after the initial comics… Continue reading
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