Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #271: Distant Visions
Last year, I talked about the first issue of Oni Press’s new anthology, Xino. The creative teams showed us myriad visions of the hell-future we’re dragging ourselves towards. Since then, the final two issues have released with more stories of all the ways in which the world scatters us, leaves us hopeless, and devours. But at least the stories… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #270: Doomed Together
The DC Universe has a lot of teams and a lot of team books. The amount of Justice Leagues, series, spin-offs, and event series is enough to fill most small libraries on their own. Over the decades, more teams would be added to the universe before the majority of them would slip into obscurity. But… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #269: What to Expect with Mechs
I’ve espoused the merits of giant robots for years now and I doubt I’ll ever stop. There’s just something about people coming together to create a titanic effigy of steel that is ripe for creating myriad stories. This is the main reason that when a new comic series releases with some connection to giant robots,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #267: The Poetry of Panels
Comics have a particular strength when it comes to poetry. The quickness of the panels being able to render different interpretations of a single line of poetry adds a new kind of depth to the poetic process. These panels themselves end up becoming another aspect of the poem—a line break becomes more of a gulf… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #266: Returning to an Unknown Home
There’s an awe that comes with stepping into a great house. The history of the location is emblazoned on the walls and drips from the century-old chandeliers—as many of them are now museums, we even get to learn a bit about who made those walls and chandeliers. But that history leaves us at arm’s length… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #265: Sargent Studies
I Kill Giants is on the short list of comics that have made me cry. That balance between the absurd and the concrete from Joe Kelly’s characters and Ken Niimura’s art helped to create this sense of reality that felt heightened throughout the series’ run. The exaggerations are what made it more grounded and, as a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #264: Pulling Up Roots
While the coming of spring has sapped all remnants of cold in the air, there’s always room for comics set deep within the clutches of autumn leaves. The autumn leaves we’re looking at, however, are an extension of the town of Comfort Notch, nestled in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire. While New England has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #263: Ghosts Outside the Shell
Ultimate Comics was one of the best ideas that Marvel as a publisher has ever had. Creating stories with an iconic pantheon and unburdened by canon, the creators of the original series were free to update and reinterpret for an audience that didn’t want to wade through the canon-nightmares of the 90s. But that original… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #262: An Act of Observance
We all have our guilty pleasure shows and it’s almost always reality TV. There’s something about watching people we don’t know go through their daily tribulations to win prizes or, more often than not, notoriety, that draws us into their worlds. Even if it’s happening in our own city, the act of seeing it on… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #261: But, Doctor…
Regardless of if we want them or not, we have to send in the clowns. But then that would make us feel better, right? The descendants of jesters traipsing around and pulling long strings of hankies out of their mouths for shits and giggles. They’re supposed to be funny—we expect them to be funny. But… Continue reading
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