Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #384: Duel in the Deep
If you haven’t been noticing a trend over the past few months, I’ve been writing about two series: Promethea and The Invisibles. The former was due to coming into a collection of the entire series s a result of some patient used book store-diving and the former because of what happened as I was reading through Promethea. The usage… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #383: Counting Down
And somehow we’ve reached the end. Although, when it comes to something like The Invisibles and Morrison’s penchant for a meta-narrative twist that implies the story continues on into the future, we may never actually reach the end. But for what we as people existing in a relatively stable plain of existence can experience, this is the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #382: Two Shores
Few things can get into my mind to the point where I forget myself, and all of them are different songs that keep me up at night. Luckily, I don’t have to deal with malevolent psychic presences laying eggs in my subconscious that allow back-door access to all of thoughts, dreams, fears, and memories as… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #381: Something Unseen
This far into a series, you would think we’d have a solid understanding of how the story, world, or characters can go. We know who these people are and what the Invisibles as an organization is like. Or, rather, we have an understanding of what we think these characters and organization are like. For the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #380: Mistakes Are Made
I’ve never taken a gap year, but I’ve heard they’re nice. I would guess they were even nicer after being shot in the side and injected with a drug that made you think you were watching your fingers get cut off one-by-one, but that hasn’t happened to me (yet). But such a gap year happened… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #379: And Exiting Elsewhere
Escalation is narratively routine: you start slow before getting to the point where you can meet god or go to space. Sometimes, though, “slow” can involve an immediate escalation to meeting god, so long as your setting allows. If the setting allows you to peer into a collapsing hyper-dimension exacerbated by the nanoparticles of a dreaded… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #378: Deeper Down the Well
Any good team book needs a few issues where you learn more about the people we’re following. While the first volume of The Invisibles focuses primarily on Dane McGowan—our lad is going to be the focal-point for much of the series—for the second volume, we start seeing the foundations of others on the team and a basis… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #377: What Is a Revolution?
We typically think of the ways in which monthly comics changed in the 80s with series like Watchmen, Doom Patrol, Batman: Year One, and a host of others. But the shifting visual narrative perspectives culminated in the 90s with many of the classic series that would come to define Vertigo not only as an imprint, but as a kind… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #376: Until the End
I do suppose this is it. After five volumes in just as many weeks, we’ve finally come to the last volume of Promethea and have fully immersed ourselves in the world that’s been created for us. But has it really been created for us, or has it been here the whole time—a fiction hiding just beneath what… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #375: We Will Follow
And it begins again. But this time a little differently as this volume begins in the middle of a story instead of neatly at an arc’s opening. All does become clear, though, as this particular volume continues as we have one of the more major state changes this time—but then the continually shifting world beneath… Continue reading
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