Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #366: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 48
And so we reach our end. Not of the pile, no, that’s only going to keep growing and consuming all that happens to get near it. Instead, we’ve come to the end of Invisible Kingdom and its sprawling story. But with its end comes something I had hinted at in previous articles that I can finally bring up here and what… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #365: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 47
While I had dove deeper into the pile last week than I ever had before, I had only actually gotten to the first part of a larger series. Invisible Kingdom and its vast universe isn’t just confined to a single volume as it ran for fifteen issues, sort of. We’ll get around to talking about those final five issues next… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #364: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 46
Somehow the pull of the pile increases every day. There’s depths to it that have followed me across multiple homes and multiple global changes. I always think that, with more time being put into chipping away at the pile, I’ll finally get to things released in this decade. Somehow, I’m always wrong as I dug deep and… Continue reading
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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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