Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #232: Tied Up
Tie-in comics occupy a weird space in the medium. While the Bionicle comics from the early 2000s that came with my issues of Lego Magazine were the first comics that I consistently read as a kid, there were always other tie-ins hanging around. Either prequels to movies, set-ups for shows or games, or even panel-by-panel re-tellings of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #231: Future Shorts
I’ve talked at length about anthologies in the past. I always love a good anthology and all of the creativity it brings—the limited page counts, the small scales, the distillations of character and plot. Everything about them is perfect for comics, and is what made many of the pre-code anthologies so special to readers at the time. And… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #227: Masking Up
I do love when a story is predictive in the oddest way possible. The coincidental prediction—the idea that some aspect of a story would portend a greater aspect of society years later. In this case, it would be seven years to the month of the original publication. And the story aspect is the general population… Continue reading
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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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