Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #140 by Drew Barth Black & Blue & Gold Anthologies are an oddity in comics. They used to be the most popular formats for telling stories—many beloved pre-Code horror series were anthologies—but then they seemed to drop off. Anthologies still exist, to some extent, but they’ve become rarer… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #139 by Drew Barth A Wide Range of Magic Comics, for the most part, come in a couple forms. There’s the monthly floppies that open up like a pamphlet; the newspaper strips read horizontally every day; and the graphic novels that cozy up next to the rest of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #138 by Drew Barth A Chainsaw Heart It’s been a while since I last talked about manga, so let’s change that. In the early days of this blog/article/scream into the void I talked about Shonen Jump’s digital reader app and all of the content available there. It was… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #136 by Drew Barth Pointing Fingers Do you use finger guns to point things out with a little extra flair or do you point them at one another over Zoom meetings in a bout of cowboy euphoria? Either way, they’re functionally useless—an aesthetic choice more tedious the more… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #135 by Drew Barth Crate Digging: Hellblazer #63 Did you know that Bruce Wayne would be turning about 102 this year? Dick Grayson would also be well into his nineties. Jason Todd would be a young man in his fifties. That is, of course, if these characters would… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #134 by Drew Barth History I said in the past that the first issue of The Other History of the DC Universeis the most important comic the publisher has put out this century. Eight months later, the entire series is now out. Is it still the most important… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132 by Drew Barth Peeling the Layers According to the cinematic touchstone, Shrek, onions have layers. They can be peeled until the core is reached. But then no one wants to talk about the skin. But we should consider the onion skin, particularly Edgar Camacho’s Onion Skin. Broken up into… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #131 by Drew Barth Which Witch The idea of the witch has changed greatly in comic fiction over the past fifty years. From the wart-nosed villains in any adventure and horror comic to a contemporary symbol of magic that can sidle more on the chaotic neutral side of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #130 by Drew Barth A Question With No Name Last week, I talked about Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, DC’s large-scale Black Label books, and the impact those books have had on DC’s new label so far. But Dead Earth was only one piece of the broader series of… Continue reading