Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #183 by Drew Barth I Would Like to be Blueberry At this juncture I think it’s safe to say that Sailor Moon is one of the most influential comics of the past fifty years. From its look to its usage and establishment of shojo tropes to the global… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #182 by Drew Barth Walk in Silence There are a few inevitabilities in comics: massive cross-over events, another Batman spin-off, and Si Spurrier writing one of the best mini-series of the year. While I had touched on the first issue earlier this year, the conclusion to Step by… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #180 by Drew Barth Doing Something to the Trend A few months ago I looked at the first issue of Shobo, George Kambadais, and Jim Campbell’s Buckhead. It was one of those series that left some hooks in me after I finished the first issue—with its blending of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #179 by Drew Barth The Deep Standing at the edge of a beach, you don’t know how deep the water gets. Even taking a boat out doesn’t give you a sense of just far down the water goes and how little light can peer down there. In this… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #178 by Drew Barth The Rumiko World I remember watching the first episode of Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha when I was eleven years old and being smitten with the world she had created. The blending of myth and history layered just below the modern world made my imagination spark.… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #177 by Drew Barth Tied Together  wrote last week about the Jurassic League and the ways in which those designs and characters reminded me of toy tie-ins from the 90s. And that just led me to the Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat, Bang! Kill Tour and… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #176 by Drew Barth With Jurassic Chomping Action! Comics are, above all, a medium for telling stories. And sometimes the best kinds of stories are catharsis—we need to feel a release from what we’ve become accustomed to. Jurassic League is one such kind of catharsis. Taking familiar characters… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #175 by Drew Barth Criminal Compendium I just finished up moving which means I just finished hauling my comic collection to a new house. This also means that some of the books that have been on my shelf for a good few years are being looked at for… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #174 by Drew Barth Reaping Benefits As anyone who is a fan of the classic The Mummy (1999) film or its subsequent roller coaster can attest, death is only the beginning. Every myth and religion and folklore has something to say about death and the loneliness that can… Continue reading