Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #165 by Drew Barth The Longest Step In comics, silence is a tool. The lingering moments between characters, the uncluttered panels, the ability to let the art simply be—all of these help the comic to establish a sense of peace or dramatic tension. But silence in comics can… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #164 by Drew Barth Red Hell Years ago, Grant Morrison talked about wanting to turn the DC Universe into a living, breathing organism. To what end? Who knows with Morrison. But if we’re going to collectively push for a comic universe as a living thing, we need to… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #162 by Drew Barth A Shell of Meat and Metal Close to a year ago I looked at the first issue of Paul Allor and Paul Tucker’s Hollow Heart and how it worked with isolation and humanity. Since then, the series has concluded its six-issue run and the… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #160 by Drew Barth The Broadest Shoulders to Carry I love giant robots. I’ve written about them in the past and I’m going to write about them in the future—it is inevitable. Luckily, another inevitability is giant robot comics getting published on a regular basis. Take We Ride… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #159 by Drew Barth One Large Cloud Overhead I’ve written in the past about influential manga finally getting official English translations and how this is broadening our understanding of how comics work globally. Many of these alternative manga were the touchstones of the medium at the time of… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #158 by Drew Barth Meat Me in the Middle I adore postmodern advertisements where you know that they know that you know they’re just trying to sell you something, but the whole ad is so deep in its own meta-narrative that you forget that you’re being sold a… Continue reading

Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #157 by Drew Barth Results-Driven Workplace I remember cubicles and commission checks and a constant striving to snag the biggest commission out of everyone, a grinding frustration even as I made enough to populate my desk with Pop figures. Intersecting this feeling with superheroes is where we have… Continue reading

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

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