Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #156: Deep, Resigned New Year
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #156 by Drew Barth Deep, Resigned New Year This is another new year. Half of my new year release articles have been written while steeped in plague. This better be the last plague list. As we drag our nails along the chalkboard of time, let me talk about… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #155: Exploration
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #155 by Drew Barth Exploration How often can we link the exploration of the ancient with contemporary modes of entertainment? It’s on this field that we find a new series, Buckhead by Shobo, George Kambadais, and Jim Campbell. Placed at the intersection of archaeology, video games, African mythology,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #154: Wondrous History
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #154 by Drew Barth Wondrous History I have, in the past, talked at length about how DC’s Black Label has been a refreshing take on many of their characters—akin to early 90s Vertigo-before-it-was-called-Vertigo comics. Works like Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer or… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #152: Only Fools
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #152 by Drew Barth Only Fools I began my year reading a fairly long novel in the form of The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and am ending it with a similar tale in Si Spurrier, Nathan Gooden, Addison Duke, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’s This Hungry Earth Reddens Under Snowclad… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #151: Dolly Parton Reference
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #151 by Drew Barth Dolly Parton Reference It’s finally a Wednesday… Finally here… Wednesday. And that means it’s a Jojo Wednesday this week. A bit over two years since the conclusion of the animated adaptation of Hirohiko Araki’s Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, we’re finally at the premiere… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #150: Last Short
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #150 by Drew Barth Last Short Once again, we return to ShortBox—one of the best curators of the comics medium. Over the past few years, Zainab Akhtar has provided the world with a box of comics, candy, and wonderfully illustrated prints from a wide-range of creators—all of whom… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #149: Noir-vember
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #149 by Drew Barth Noir-vember What’s in a grave? Usually a body. Usually a body that matches the grave listed above it. But if that was always the case, we wouldn’t have dozens of conspiracies about who could be in which grave. And that kind of conspiracy is… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #148: Take a Look
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #148 by Drew Barth Take a Look Making comics is difficult. I’ve only made a few scripts and that was difficult enough when not coupled with art duties. But when working with someone else, the work feels less solitary—the line dividing you from the rest of the world… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147: Telling Tall Tales
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #147 by Drew Barth Telling Tall Tales I’ve been reading comics for a bit—I think I started sometime around 2006—and while that isn’t as long as many other people, I’ve still be around long enough to see the different eras and trends emerge in that time. Among… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146: Old Cat, New City
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #146 by Drew Barth Old Cat, New City Gotham is an essential setting in the DC Universe. We’ve seen it change dozens of times over the years. How far into the future can the city go and still be recognizable? Cliff Chiang pushes Gotham far into a troubled… Continue reading
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