Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #112: I’m Talking About Isolation
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #112: I’m Talking About Isolation If you listen closely to the wind, you can hear me once again espousing the tenets of a good first issue: strong world-building, plot introduction, character establishment, etc. Luckily, Vault Comics has a new series that deals with the dead in a way… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #111: Under the Radar
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #111 by Drew Barth Under the Radar If we think back to comics during and after World War II an interesting trend emerges. We had the Golden Age of comics and all of the heroes and horror stories that brought—which then led to the adoption of Comics Code… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #110: Tuck and Roll
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #110: Tuck and Roll Urban legends can provide a quick, solid backbone to a fictional world that can establish time, culture, attitudes, hopes and fears, and a prevailing sense of community as people are drawn together to whisper about the thing they had seen in the forest or… Continue reading
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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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