Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #86: Mortuary in the Stars
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #86 by Drew Barth Mortuary in the Stars One of the heaviest lines in comics is “there was a time when the Old Gods died…” from Jack Kirby’s New Gods #1. From that fertile ground comes We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #1 by Al Ewing and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #85: I Can Feel It In The Air Tonight
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #85 by Drew Barth I Can Feel It In The Air Tonight Oh, Lord. You break one guy’s neck and he’s your nemesis for life. But, then again, Maxwell Lord is a great foil: manipulative, mind-controlling, ruthless, blood-thirsty—everything Wonder Woman can stand against at a base character level.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #84: How Bad Can A Dream Be?
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #84 by Drew Barth How Bad Can A Dream Be? There have been plenty of stories that deal with dreams. Either characters having to jump into a friend’s head to dissect what about their dreams is disturbing them or having to pull the dream out into the real… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82: Shut Up, I Don’t Have an Ulcer
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82 by Drew Barth Shut Up, I Don’t Have an Ulcer Anytime I hear anything about corporate shake-ups from publisher-owning conglomerates, I get that pit in my stomach. Comics are a tenuous business—one that most of the time depends on a larger company mostly forgetting about them so… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82: Energized and Anthologized
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #82 by Drew Barth Energized and Anthologized A good anthology is hard to find sometimes. Luckily, Peow released the first volume of their Kickstarter-funded anthology series, Ex.Mag, this past month. Their original campaign promised three volumes centering on three sub-genres: cyberpunk, paranormal romance, and dark fantasy. We’ll be… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81: Pros of Cons
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #81 by Drew Barth Pros of Cons Due to the steady spike in COVID cases across the country and the villainous ineptitude at the federal level, our lives are still rather sporadic. While many services and businesses are forced to open unnecessarily, conventions have been canceled or delayed… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #80 by Drew Barth I Won’t Make a Duran Duran Joke Graphic memoirs are one of the most important genres within comics. The interplay between memory and picture can resonate immediately with readers and allows them to better witness the past. And recently, no other graphic memoir has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79: Take It To the Banks
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #79 by Drew Barth Take it to the Banks I’ve mentioned them briefly before, but TKO is doing something different with monthly comics. Instead of waiting for trade paperbacks while a monthly series comes out, they opt to publish the entire story at once either in a collected… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78: Looking Inward
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #78 by Drew Barth Looking Inward There is absolute precision in Gabriella Giandelli’s lines. When we look at a work like Interiorae, we find the best of Giandelli’s aesthetic: panel by panel of precise lines and a focus on compassion unlike anything else in comics. Interiorae is about a single… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #77: This Cannot Continue
Comics Are Trying To Break Your Heart #77 by Drew Barth This Cannot Continue If you haven’t heard yet, there has been quite a lot in comics these past couple weeks. Revelations about men in the industry using their power to manipulate and abuse women was brought to a fresh light two weeks ago by… Continue reading
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