Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #226: Not Spilled Enough
A few years ago, I took a look at the first couple issue of Emma Kubert and Rusty Gladd’s new series from Image, Inkblot. I talked about legacy and fantasy storytelling and how those have combined to create a unique series that feels like it’s a long-forgotten cult classic from the 70s. Since then, it’s been a little… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #225: A Cut Across History
Much like the modern comic book, jazz is a uniquely American invention. And while both are umbrella terms that encompass a wide variety of genres, sub-genres, and movements over the decades, we’re all intimately familiar with their conventions. Like most mediums, too, both comics and jazz are filled with the unsung and unknown figures that… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #223: The Space of the End
A few months ago I had taken a look at the first issue of Mark Russel, Michael Allred, Laura Allred, and Dave Sharpe’s Superman: Space Age and remarked on the incredibly hopeful tone it established in how it approached this version of Superman and their world. Does that continue into the rest of the series? Well, to an extent.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #222: Baked-In Murder
I’ve talked about it previously: John Allison remains one of the most consistently great comic creators in the industry. And with his frequent collaborator in Max Sarin providing the art and Sammy Borras and Jim Campbell giving us colors and letters respectively, we have the set-up for, The Great British Bump-Off. As another series spinning off the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #220: Variable Changes
We remember 2019, right? The pre-plague era where I was only a few months into this series of articles? It was then I pointed out my reasoning behind not covering much of Marvel’s recent output, opting instead for the occasional older series. This was due to Ike Perlmutter, his connections to the Trump administration, and his… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #219: A Neighborly Spirit
There’s a terror in changing, even more so when it involves the home. We think of our homes as the safest places we can be—it’s where, for the most part, we’re allowed to let ourselves simply be without the outside world creeping in. But then we have to move. The world has already seeped into… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #218: Sitting at the Center of the Panel
How do you write about wanting to die? Is it through writing down everything happening in your life to act as a demonstration for the need? Or is it talking about it frankly? Or is it showing those feelings as various forms of the self shadowed by something giant, dark, and dreadful just at the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #217: 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 characters can do. We used to see it fairly regularly from DC in the form of the… Continue reading
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