Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #387: Prescient Moments
The rhythm for the last few months has been my following the various volumes and omnibuses of series like Promethea, The Invisibles, and now Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. While this is a rhythm I’d like to maintain, something stuck me when I got to end of the first volume of the Fourth World omnibuses and that’s The Forever People #3 and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #386: The Start
In all things, there is an origin point—the space in which the void at the center is filled with something inexplicable and all work that comes after is inevitably inspired. While Jack Kirby had his own origins working for Marvel—maybe working a bit more than his chief collaborator would claim—it was when he landed at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #385: Duelists in the Depths
Actually, it’s not over yet. After mulling further on how Promethea and The Invisibles functioned as comics last week, I couldn’t get the thought of their structure and aims out of my head. In lieu, then, of the article I was going to write on another series, we’re diving back even deeper on two series that shown what magic was able to… Continue reading
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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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