Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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