Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #355: Three Ways and One Look
There’s a specific era of DC that many of their legendary runs originated—that specific bit of the late eighties and into the early nineties where Vertigo originally sprang. It’s from these years that we saw pure bombast take side stage for stories that wanted to address societal issues through the lens of the superhero comic. 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 #350: Circling All the Way Back Around
2021 seems relatively nice compared to the current moment. While we were in a pre-Covid vaccine world, things hadn’t yet reached the zenith of their bullshit. But we were still getting some decent comics out of the year, including the short series The Last Witch that I had taken a quick look at. The years, however, didn’t Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #349: Jangling Keys
While rivalries between publishers have been a constant since comics began, it’s their points of coming together that feel much more monumental. With the initial publication of Amalgam Comics in 1996 and its fusions of DC and Marvel characters and continuities, we could see how the creators at the time would smash their toys together. Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #348: Stitching the Clues Together
It’s been at least a year since I last mentioned John Allison, so I’m going to have to remedy that. It is always fun when a creator you’ve been following for close to two decades is still putting out work that feels completely and uniquely their own, but whose style has remained consistent over all that time. Considering 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 #346: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 38
There’s a variety of reasons comics end up in the pile. Some are longer series that I’m waiting to end before I dive in. Other series require important context that I can only get from reading another series first. And then there’s the few that end up there because I didn’t know they ended, partially due to Continue reading
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