Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195: Legendary Status
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #195 by Drew Barth Legendary Status The Spook season isn’t just for the ghosts, goblins, and skeletons we’re all used to seeing stalk the streets on Halloween night, it’s for the legends that accompany them. Much of the aesthetic we associate with spooks comes from the folklore and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194: Creep Along
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #194 by Drew Barth Creep Along I hate the comics code. You hate the comics code. We all hate the comics code. Beside the general sanitization of comics in the 50s and Fredric Wertham clutching his pearls so hard his face turned purple, the code caused the cancellation… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #192: Undisputed Classics
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #192 by Drew Barth Undisputed Classics Comics as a medium is old. The stories we tell about those older comics could likely fill up more pages than exist in comics. And even more pages could be filled by the comics that never existed but were talked about by… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #191: Dogged Legends
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #191 by Drew Barth Dogged Legends Cú Chulainn is one of the most well-known Irish hero myths with his image making many appearances throughout the country as a symbol of Irish independence and solidarity. And while he has appeared in various comics in the past, both from Marvel… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #190: Thank You for Being Afraid
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #190 by Drew Barth Thank You for Being Afraid Battle Royals have been the preeminent form of entertainment for the past few years. Due to its dominance in the video game market, Fortnite’s battle royal style of game play is one of the biggest things in the world. But… Continue reading
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