Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #348: Stitching the Clues Together
It’s been at least a year since I last mentioned John Allison, so I’m going to have to remedy that. It is always fun when a creator you’ve been following for close to two decades is still putting out work that feels completely and uniquely their own, but whose style has remained consistent over all that time. Considering Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #347: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 39
While there are times when looking at the pile that I do see a series that I’ve been waiting to finish piling up, I remember that there are others just beneath that pile that have finished without my noticing. How often has this happened? Hey, man, don’t even worry about that. And why would we Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #346: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 38
There’s a variety of reasons comics end up in the pile. Some are longer series that I’m waiting to end before I dive in. Other series require important context that I can only get from reading another series first. And then there’s the few that end up there because I didn’t know they ended, partially due to Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #345: Serling Silver
My earliest memories of The Twilight Zone oscillate between waking up late at night and seeing reruns playing on the TV in the living room and the billboards for the Tower of Terror at Hollywood Studios. The series has been on in the background for much of my life and between the imagery and soundtrack, it’s hard Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #344: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 37
The pile as always ebbs and contacts as more is taken away but more is added. And yet, somehow, it is looking a little thinner than before. Will we see it defeated in our lifetimes? Eh, maybe? Even still, there’s always going to be at least a few series I’m neglecting to read until their Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #343: Back to Bats
A bit ago, I had taken a look at the first issue of a new run on Batman from Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jiménez. That’s since come and gone—and is one of the larger bumps in my pile that I’ll need to return to at some point—and now we have another launch of the mainline Batman series that looks Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #342: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 36
Once again, we return to the endless depths of the pile and pull from it something not completely unfamiliar. As you may remember from the several decades ago that leads us to 2019, I had written about a short series that involved the rebellion of the Canadian people against a religiously fanatical US government. In the time since then, that idea went Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #341: Going Slowly Backward Through Time
Although I’ve heard about the character before reviewing one of his series a couple months ago, I can’t get away from thinking about Concrete as a character. And the world wants to oblige my thoughts as, the weekend after I had written about Concrete: Think Like a Mountain, I had gone into one my local shops to look Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #339: They Do Long to Be
Let’s talk about Phonogram. Or, maybe, let’s talk about the idea of Phonogram and the phonomancy that pulls its story. The idea behind it is to dig into a song and pull from it that essential spark that gives it power. In a way, you create magic with how you listen to and use the music closest to Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #338: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 35
Did you expect the pile to be so easily finished? Even though it’s been a month since I last dove into it, that doesn’t keep the series from piling up further and further. But this is one that’s been sitting in the pile for a few years now—it’s been nearly four years since I looked at the Continue reading
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