Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

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

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #173 by Drew Barth Lingering A long while ago, I wrote about the first issue of Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, and Muntsa Vicente. It was one of the best examples of the post-YA genre at the time of publication and another piece of Panel Syndicate’s ever-growing… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #172 by Drew Barth What Streets Say I don’t know if there is anyone as influential to comics as a medium as Will Eisner. His Contract with God trilogy would become one of the shining examples of what graphic novels could do and how a self-contained story could… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #171 by Drew Barth Looking Space Although I have talked about him and his work in the past, I can always talk at length about the wonderfully creeping horror of Junji Ito. Much of his most iconic work is typically found in his short stories, namely pieces like… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #170 by Drew Barth One Last Job DC’s Black Label imprint has become the hub for stories centered on heroes and villains in their later years. From Catwoman: Lonely City to Swamp Thing: Green Hell, we get to see a variety of characters and how the changing times… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #169 by Drew Barth The Walls Have Eyes How much has happened in your home? How much has your home noticed what you’ve done? Although it can’t speak, your home likely has had thoughts about you. But what would it say, your home, if asked? Sloane Leong and… Continue reading