Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213: Patchy Stories
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #213 by Drew Barth Patchy Stories Should most books and movies about fairy tales disappear, we could recite them orally without much trouble. Familiarity and simplicity keeps fairy tales in the storytelling zeitgeist and, as a result, makes them ripe for reinterpretation. How many times have we seen… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212: Lasting Impact
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #212 by Drew Barth Lasting Impact How many times have we heard the phrase “the battle of the century” in any context from sports to cooking to music only to be disappointed? Because, if we’re talking about history, it’s hard not to think of Jack Johnson’s most famous… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211: One Shot Day
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #211 by Drew Barth One Shot Day I love a good one-shot. Sometimes we just need a short piece of comics to see a team of creators really flex what they know about the medium in under a hundred pages. And when it’s a one-shot that works with… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210: Rush of Blood
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #210 by Drew Barth Rush of Blood Greed can make us all monstrous. Sometimes this is more literal than not. Greed can start to strip away chunks of humanity like trying to dig gold out of your skin. Anyone in the Yukon Territory during the gold rush at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208: Ending at the Ending
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #208 by Drew Barth Ending at the Ending Apocalypse stories abound. The world ends in one of a dozen different ways and people need to live through it. But what’s most significant between these stories is the timing of them. When does the apocalypse happen and when is… Continue reading
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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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