Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #124: Banned
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #124: Banned I mentioned last week how important it is to have stories from different points in history that, in the west, are relatively unknown. There are a wealth of stories around the world from different points of time that end up buried under our own history. But… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #123: Looking Through History
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #123 by Drew Barth Looking Through History The true start of comics and graphic novels is a contentious subject. Depending on who you ask, the idea of the graphic novel didn’t until begin until 1978 with Will Eisner’s A Contract with God. Others would contend it can go… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #122: Cult Classic Crate Digging
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #122 by Drew Barth Cult Classic Crate Digging DC Comics in the 80s was an interesting time. With the publication of Watchmen in 1986 and the slow eroding of the Comics Code since the 70s, they were apt to make some wider choices with what kinds of stories… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #121: Green Thumbing Your Nose
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #121 by Drew Barth Green Thumbing Your Nose Comics can be ideal for didactic texts. It’s the reason Understanding Comics is a comic itself. It’s also why IKEA manuals use their own universal visual language to show how to build. And it’s why manuals and guides as comics can… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #120: Have the Time of Your Death
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #120 by Drew Barth Have the Time of Your Death Death is final. Death in comics, a bit less so. Just look at Deadman. Or Swamp Thing. Or the legion of characters that have died and come back to life a dozen times. Their reasons for returning are,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #119: Oh God, It’s Coming This Way
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #119 by Drew Barth Oh God, It’s Coming This Way I’ve said it once before and I will repeat it again and again: John Allison is one of the most consistently great writers in modern comics. I’ve gone over his history in the previous article where I took… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #118: Swamps & Things
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #118 by Drew Barth Swamps & Things Swamps are, for the most part, points of transformation. There is that disgust of the slime that permeates the water and trees. Nothing comes out of a swamp the same as when it came in. Just look at Swamp Thing. Or… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #117: To Wear an Influence
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #117 by Drew Barth To Wear an Influence I remember being a tiny child and setting our VCR to record Power Rangers and Big Bad Beetleborgs while I was at school or asleep and I would sit in front of the TV, half watching as I rewound the newly… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #116: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 3
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #116 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized Vol. 3 Where were we the last time Peow released a volume of their Ex.Mag series? Oh, right, a decade ago in terms of major historical events. Cool. But hey, comics! Ex.Mag is now finishing up its three-volume run with its… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #115: How Bad Can It Be?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #115 by Drew Barth How Bad Can It Be? Long ago, in the pre-plague days, I was asked at my local comic shopif I would like to sign up for releases from a new publisher called Bad Idea. Knowing literally nothing about them, I decided, eh, why not?… Continue reading
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