Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #374: For as Long as the Path Goes
The path of Promethea is a long one. Or at least it’s a convoluted one. The path, for the most part, is many things and goes in many different directions, sometimes looping back upon itself endlessly. But then that’s a part of the structure of the story Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #373: And It Continues
Last week I began my first foray into Promethea, a series that I had initially thought had some kind of basis in mythology, but was a fiction Alan Moore had created as the foundation for a sprawling story centered around the idea of his own creation. Not content with only looking at one volume of this story,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #372: There’s a Continuity Here
There are rather large gaps in my comics knowledge. I only have so much time and there’s always new issues to read, stories to digest, and discoveries to make when plunging into my endless back-logged pile. But there’s other series that I had just missed completely. The global backlog that doesn’t confront me on my… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #371: It Never Ends, Does It?
It’s 2009 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run on a character-defining run for Batwoman. It’s 2026 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run for Batwoman. Sometimes things exist in cycles and sometimes time finds a way to rhyme across nearly two decades. It was that… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #370: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 50
So, interesting turn of events in the world as the comic I’ve pulled from the pile that I had been planning to cover since last week is somehow evergreen in terms of some of its subject matter. At times, it’s hard not to look back on certain series and see them almost as hyperbolic in… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #369: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 49
The nebulous pile highlights how convoluted time has become. That pile can hide a series I had almost completely forgotten about due to only being sent the first issue—fueling my blood-feud with Diamond further—and falling into obscurity on my bookshelf. But I’ve been clearing some things and, despite reviewing that first issue nearly five years ago, we… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #368: What We Know Isn’t There
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the classic Universal monster movies—and not just because I want to go back to Epic Universe. The idea of that series of films from 1913 to 1956, based loosely on classic horror literature, is what got me into horror as a genre from a young age. Even… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #367: Creating a Beginning
Monthly comics is a realm filled with the dead and the continually undying. Every major character death is a sabbatical from which they come back with a new direction and tone or the same direction, but at a different angle. There’s rarely a death so much as there is a passing of the torch. But… Continue reading
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