Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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