Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #98: November, November I’ve talked in the past about how much I love short blasts of story. There’s honestly little better to me than picking up a novella after a long novel. And what Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth, and Kurt Ankeny have crafted with the second… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #96: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 2
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #96 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized Vol. 2 All right, collective exhale. Un-clench your jaw. One immediate existential threat mitigated, many more to go. But this is where comics come in—we can have these moments to come together to create things and collectively take a second. It’s… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #95
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #95 by Drew Barth Afterward So. This is being written a few days before the 2020 election, so writing about comics at this point in time is like digging a ditch for the lava to go around Pompeii. But comics still happen, as does this article. But what do… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #94: Bad Island
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #94 by Drew Barth A Quiet Island Silence in a graphic novel is oppressive. We as readers must face the images directly. This directness is what we see throughout Stanley Donwood’s Bad Island. But his latest work is more than just a directness of images—it is a sweepingly… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #93: A Sunless Legacy
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #93 by Drew Barth A Sunless Legacy What is a legacy? In monthly comics, it’s usually a character taking up the mantle of a hero that has passed on or passed out of the popular lexicon. This new character dons the mask, the famous name, and the responsibilities… Continue reading
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