Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #109: Bring Us Comics
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #109 by Drew Barth Bring Us Comics Sometimes we forget that comics are coming from all over the place. I know I’ve grown accustomed to what I can find in my local shop and the webcomics that have been bookmarked on my laptop for a decade, but comics… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #107: Embedded
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #107 by Drew Barth Embedded Many years ago now, I went to school to get a degree in journalism. While I changed my career path, I always have a soft spot for good journalists, from movies like Good Night, and Good Luck to characters like Kent Brockman, but… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #106: Crafting a Witch’s Story
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #106 by Drew Barth Crafting a Witch’s Story Man, I really hope there’s nothing historically significant happening today. Anyway, let’s talk about witches and comics. There’s likely as many witches in comics as there are X-Men spin-offs, so that would warrant its own weekly article, but today I’m… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #105: Peeking Into the Future
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #105 by Drew Barth Peeking Into the Future So, the highs of a Senate victory on Tuesday night into the lows of an insurrection on Wednesday afternoon. I’ll rearrange some deckchairs on the Titanic for a bit while I keep talking about comics. Anyway, DC’s last event, Dark… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #104: New Year, New Deep, Resigned Sigh
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #104 by Drew Barth New Year, New Deep, Resigned Sigh New year, new reminder to check up on your friends. Deep breaths. Drink more water. Also, think about comics. It’s the beginning of a new year after continuously living through a year that felt like a painful, strange… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #103: Crossing Into Reality
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #103 by Drew Barth Crossing Into Reality When a comic starts off with a quote from Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, you know it’s going to be fun. When you couple that quote with an event in which every superhero suddenly lands in Denver in a fight… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #102: Maid in Le Mans
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #102 by Drew Barth Maid in Le Mans Comics are well suited to depicting historical events. In her most recent work, Maids, Katie Skelly brings us the story of the Papin Sisters—two women who murdered the mother and daughter of the Lancelin family in 1930s France. Maids is the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #101: Winter’s Ghouls
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #101 by Drew Barth Winter’s Ghouls One of my favorite things about the holiday season is spooks. We’re only a month and a half removed from Halloween and hauntings come back, hoisted by seasonal depression. But then that’s where the good comics come in. In the past couple… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #100: Cool Cats
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #100 by Drew Barth Cool Cats The horrifying ordeal of being famous hits hardest when you’ve been doing something a hundred times. You’ve been reading this blog for a while now and there is something that has been a consistent staple of every single installment since its inception. If… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #99: Another History
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #99 by Drew Barth Another History DC is one of comics’ oldest publishers, but much of its history is overlooked. DC’s focus occasionally shifts to its Golden and Silver ages, or into periods of the 1980s. Created by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrea Cucchui, José Villarrubia, and Steve… Continue reading
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