Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #217: We Used to Call it Elseworlds
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #217 by Drew Barth We Used to Call it Elseworlds With the multiverse becoming a major staple in superhero fiction over the past decade—from the various films to crossovers to Rebirths to Multiversity Guidebooks—it’s hard not to want to delve into the stranger aspects of what these archetypal… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #216: The Road to Suplex City is Paved with Bodies
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #216 by Drew Barth The Road to Suplex City is Paved with Bodies There’s an inherent allure to wrestling. Outside of big meaty men slapping meat, there’s long-running storylines that can span decades and the kind of iconography that’s only rivaled in its cultural ubiquity by superheros. But… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #215: Turning Against
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #215 by Drew Barth Turning Against I’ve written in the past about how comics can help to illuminate some more obscure moments (to a western audience’s understanding) in history. Much of the time, these accounts can help to draw readers in with compelling visuals that create immediate connections to the people being… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #214: It’s the Meatiest
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #214 by Drew Barth It’s the Meatiest Months ago, I took a look at the first issue of Juni Ba’s Monkey Meat and praised the meta-advertisement narrative it took. I had been, at the time, excited for a series that would explore that kind of narrative further and if it could get… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213: Patchy Stories
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213 by Drew Barth Patchy Stories Should most books and movies about fairy tales disappear, we could recite them orally without much trouble. Familiarity and simplicity keeps fairy tales in the storytelling zeitgeist and, as a result, makes them ripe for reinterpretation. How many times have we seen… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212: Lasting Impact
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212 by Drew Barth Lasting Impact How many times have we heard the phrase “the battle of the century” in any context from sports to cooking to music only to be disappointed? Because, if we’re talking about history, it’s hard not to think of Jack Johnson’s most famous… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211: One Shot Day
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211 by Drew Barth One Shot Day I love a good one-shot. Sometimes we just need a short piece of comics to see a team of creators really flex what they know about the medium in under a hundred pages. And when it’s a one-shot that works with… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210: Rush of Blood
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210 by Drew Barth Rush of Blood Greed can make us all monstrous. Sometimes this is more literal than not. Greed can start to strip away chunks of humanity like trying to dig gold out of your skin. Anyone in the Yukon Territory during the gold rush at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208: Ending at the Ending
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208 by Drew Barth Ending at the Ending Apocalypse stories abound. The world ends in one of a dozen different ways and people need to live through it. But what’s most significant between these stories is the timing of them. When does the apocalypse happen and when is… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207: Cross Face
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207 by Drew Barth Cross Face One of the major questions in comics over the past forty years has typically centered on how they would work in the real world. How could Batman function in a place like New York? Could Spawn just walk down the street? Are… Continue reading
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