Comic Books
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #240: No Reservations (About Eating People)
One of the most relaxing things I would do when in the grips of the initial plague months was watch food documentaries. As I didn’t have the ingredients or skills, watching these shows helped me feel like I was connected in some way to what was on the screen—I could sit and savor with the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #239: The Hardest Cut
Whenever a new publisher announces a slate of comics, a tinge of excitement that comes with seeing what creators come up with to best showcase who they are and what they do. The past few years have seen an uptick in these new publishers, both physical and online, but few have had the sheet breadth… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #238: Big Meaty Men Slapping Meat
Wrestling is a weird storytelling medium. Most people who watch go from ardent believers of the violence happening in the ring—to the point where many a sibling’s broken bone can be attributed to a swanton bomb off the top bunk—to realizing the artifice when seeing a man having to wrestle his boss in tag team match… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #237: A Magic For All Seasons
At the dawn of the Golden Age, Superman and Batman were the biggest heroes. Other publishers wanted to capture that lightning in the bottle with their own sci-fi or detective stories. Only when Fawcett Comics debuted their own super-clone, this time with a magical incantation, did the full fantasy of comics really arrive. Shazam was… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #236: Matt’s Spies
In my younger and more vulnerable years, I wanted to be a spy. For a second grade child, espionage seemed a viable career path with all the spy-adjacent material that I could pick up at the Scholastic Book Fair. Or maybe I would re-watch my VHS copy of Harriet the Spy until the tape turned translucent. Either… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #235: What Lies Beneath
How much has fallen into the ocean—not simply own abominable trash islande, but the objects that we’re not responsible for like meteorites and space debris? What else might we find if we were to dive deep beneath the surface? What could be dredged up if we were looking? Ram V, Christian Ward, and Aditya Bidikar… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #234: An Office Space
A while ago I took at look at the first issue of Mark Russel, Steve Lieber, Dave Stewart, and Dave Sharpe’s One-Star Squadron and its approach to a heroic office comedy. At the time, the book was this oddity of a mini-series: Red Tornado, Power Girl, and a collection of z-tier characters from the DC Universe get involved in… Continue reading
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