Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #188: Framing Goodbyes
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #188 by Drew Barth Framing Goodbyes How do we remember the ones we love? From the pictures and videos we have saved on our phones, there’s likely an idealized version of them we keep in our memories. Despite everything, when we scroll through those picture or videos, we… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #187: Forgotten Rockets
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #187 by Drew Barth Forgotten Rockets In the 2010s, there was a resurgence of pulp characters. From Doc Savage teaming up with Batman to The Phantom having his own ongoing series, nostalgia for older heroes came back in force, then kind of disappeared. Some publishers still put out… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #186: Yee-Haw Revengeance
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #186 by Drew Barth Yee-Haw Revengeance Westerns have been a staple of comics for almost as long as the medium has existed. From All-Star Western to Weird Western Tales to some of the more modern relaunches and interpretations. And many of them harken back to the idea of the glory days of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #185: Running the News Room
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #185 by Drew Barth Running the News Room Comics have a strange relationship with reality. Some aspects feel grounded while others seem absurd at first, but eventually make perfect sense in the context of their fictional world—like Jimmy Olsen having a stable job for so long. But then… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #184: A Chip in the Ice
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #184 by Drew Barth A Chip in the Ice I don’t remember the last time I picked up a Batman comic. I’ve grabbed Batman comics in the past—typically some one-offs, a few issues of Batman: Black and White, Batman & Robin, Batman Inc., etc. But never the mainline Batman series. The New52 and Rebirth relaunches… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #183: I Would Like to be Blueberry
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #182: Walk in Silence
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #181: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 4
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #181by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized Vol. 4 It’s been over a year since I wrote about the last Ex.Mag from Peow Studio and that came out shortly after major historical events were occurring here. And this time around we’re somehow embroiled in an even larger mess of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #180: Doing Something to the Trend
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
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #179: The Deep
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
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