Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #337: A Howling Wind
A good detective story is at its best when surrounding a reader with all of the clues they need to figure out the case, but shuffled around just enough that we can’t quite see the big picture just yet. Us, and the detective, scramble to figure out how everything fits together before the walls finally Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #336: Creating an Ending
It’s been just about a year since I last covered any release from Marvel. Not for any of the original boycotting reasons that I had been working with previously, but simply because there wasn’t a huge amount piquing my interest. But then the previews came through for a series doing something that I always enjoy: providing a Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #335: The Dark Edge of Space
Despite doing this article for over six years now, I’ve spent precious little time writing about Batman. Ironic considering the glut of Batman media that DC continually puts out and my own propensity for Batman-adjacent series to read. But sometimes there’s a miniseries that piques my interest enough that I can’t help but want to Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #334: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 34
Finally, the equilibrium we all strive for in my titles. Anyway, let’s pull another series from the depths of the pile that’s actually a sequel to a series I had covered back before this article was a year old. And while the opening of that article may not have aged all that well, there still remains the kernel Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #333: A Sense of Place
There are comic series I only hear about from other comic people. Not due to their obscurity or that they’re difficult to find—sometimes they’re kept in regular print. But with so many series being released and re-released, it gets difficult to keep abreast of everything happening. That’s why when a story or character hits my Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #332: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 33
The exact contours of the pile extend far beyond the image in this article’s header. They reach further into my shelves and horizontal spaces to wherever large amounts of materials can be stacked. They stack just as much in my mind too when I need to wipe the dust off them every week. And this Continue reading
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