Comic Books
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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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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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