Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207: Cross Face
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #207 by Drew Barth Cross Face One of the major questions in comics over the past forty years has typically centered on how they would work in the real world. How could Batman function in a place like New York? Could Spawn just walk down the street? Are… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #206
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #206 by Drew Barth Another One of These Years It’s a new year and it’s time again to look forward to the multitude of work coming out that runs the gambit of short story collections, the minutia of history, and the good old weird shit that you and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #205
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #205 by Drew Barth Observation I’ve never been able to work in a cafe. There’s always something about the noise and the continual threat of someone wanting to talk or look at whatever I’m working on. But then others can get something more from the feeling of being… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #204: Long Road to Somewhere
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #204 by Drew Barth Long Road to Somewhere Most journey narratives end with our protagonists returning home with the splendors of treasure, knowledge, or both to an adoring hometown crowd that celebrates the transformation they’ve undergone in the time they’ve been away. That home is the root—the place… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #203
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #203 by Drew Barth A Kind of Truth Some comics get meta. How many time has Grant Morrison appeared in one of their stories at this point? Injecting a bit of our reality into the universe of a comic is a fun way to approach character interactions. Some… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #201: What’s In the Lemonade?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #201 by Drew Barth What’s In the Lemonade? The boldest colors on comic covers are appealing. Such designs are in comics’ DNA from the very beginning—competing publishers trying to get kids’ attention with the most appealing covers. But there’s something to be said about the kind of cover,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200: The Story of a Story of a Story
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #200 by Drew Barth The Story of a Story of a Story Oh, hey, two hundred of these articles. Neat-o. Anyway, let’s talk about King Arthur. Or a couple versions of King Arthur. There’s a few when you think about it enough. Where did his sword come from?… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199: Two Perspectives Here Before You
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #199 by Drew Barth Two Perspectives Here Before You If there’s a medium that can use its visuals to their fullest extent when representing characters, it’s comics. There are only so many ways for film to show a person—but the face doesn’t change much without hours in the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198: Cat Time
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #198 by Drew Barth Cat Time How much time do we actually have? We sleep, roughly, eight hours and work for an additional nine. But then we have overtime and all the preparations for getting to work and the chores we need to deal with to keep our… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196: Damned If You Don’t
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #196 by Drew Barth Damned If You Don’t Although the spooky season will soon close, ghosts and demons flow through the pages of comics—even the ones that Fredric Wertham thought would jump out and murder children—a proudly ignominious tradition. Today, we have a new spookier series releasing in Damn… Continue reading
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