Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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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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