Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #363: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 45
We return to the pile with another graphic novel. Well, less of a graphic novel and more of a graphic album as this is a collection of stories that have been published over the years. So it’s time we dove into some of the most famous works by mangaka Juni Ito and his collection: Shiver. Shiver is a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #362: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 6
Let’s consider where we all were the last time I had written about Ex.Mag and try not to wallow too hard. But at the very least we can be excited about something consistent in our lives: really good comic anthologies. Peow2 has ensured that we’re going to have something to look forward to whenever one of their Kickstarters drops and we’re… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #361: Guess I’ll Die Again and Again And Again
A sequel series is always a difficult thing. A new series can be given a measure of grace as the concept and characters are new and need to be established for a new audience. But a sequel has expectations to meet. The same tricks can’t be pulled again as that audience has returned and is… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #360: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 44
There are certain series in the pile that I don’t notice have finished until I’m portioning out my monthly pulls and notice that one series hasn’t gotten any issues in a bit. Is an inexplicably large portion of the pile made up of series like that because I’m not sure how to keep track of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #359: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 43
I’m going to make it through this pile this year if it kills me. So please be excited for more of these dives into the various piles I’ve created for myself and the series that have been sitting there for a couple years at least. And there’s one in particular that’s been sitting in the pile for… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #358: Several Points Beyond
How many times have I mentioned my love of anthologies? It’s been at least a couple months, right? While comics as a medium are great for telling longer stories, shorter pieces are stitched into their DNA. Good anthologies come and go and the best stick around in your mind for years since there’s always that… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #357: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 42
The more I look at the pile whenever I’m in my room, it only grows larger. Even after all of these articles, it has only increased. If I’ll have any New Year’s Resolution, it’ll be to finally complete that pile and have my shelf space finally open again. And for this week, I’m digging deep… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #356: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 41
The two piles are locked in a continual battle of who can largest over a longer period of time. In one corner of the room are the single issues—the floppies that accumulate every month with each shipment from my local shop. On the other side is the graphic novel shelf—volumes that I keep thinking I’ll… Continue reading
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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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