Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #334: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 34
Finally, the equilibrium we all strive for in my titles. Anyway, let’s pull another series from the depths of the pile that’s actually a sequel to a series I had covered back before this article was a year old. And while the opening of that article may not have aged all that well, there still remains the kernel Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #333: A Sense of Place
There are comic series I only hear about from other comic people. Not due to their obscurity or that they’re difficult to find—sometimes they’re kept in regular print. But with so many series being released and re-released, it gets difficult to keep abreast of everything happening. That’s why when a story or character hits my Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #332: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 33
The exact contours of the pile extend far beyond the image in this article’s header. They reach further into my shelves and horizontal spaces to wherever large amounts of materials can be stacked. They stack just as much in my mind too when I need to wipe the dust off them every week. And this Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #331: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 32
While trying to ignore the numbers being just barely off, I dive further into the pule to find a series that has been sitting there for close to a year. But this is at least one that I had covered previously, and it’s just as appropriate now as we’re seeing dozens of Christmas in July sales Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #330: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 31
It’s only looking at the title now do I notice I could have planned things better to have the two numbers match. Oh well, at least I still have the unending pile to dig through for consolation. But the series I’m looking at this week isn’t one that’s unfamiliar to the article as I ended Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #329: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Creatures
I do love a good novella. It isn’t that I want shorter stories, but seeing how an artist works within limited space helps to see the bare essentials of what a good story needs. A graphic novella works well at this length as we’re given more space than a single issue, but just a bit Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #328: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 30
As vast as the pile is, there are still nooks and crannies that have yet to be fully minedt. Namely a small corner with all of the “prestige-sized” books from DC’s Black Label. While I do enjoy the stories, they do get a bit cumbersome in the pile. And if I reviewed this series’ first issue back Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #326: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 29
Did you think that was all I had on that particular run of Harley Quinn? Oh no, the pile is too vast to cut things off after only seventeen issues—this goes so much deeper than that. And for Stephanie Phillips’ run, that means we get to see how much more she can do with the Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #325: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 28
The abyss beckons once more as there are depths of the pile that I had almost forgotten about. I do remember ordering some series on a bit of a whim as the writer and artist team sounded like they would make a fun monthly hero comic. And once those issues started coming in, I kept Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #324: A Far Off Time
I’ve talked about anthologies multiple times in this article in the past—there’s very little to not like about them. But when it comes to American comics culture, there hasn’t really been a mainstream anthology series that’s been consistently published. We have our shorter anthologies here and there for a few years, but there’s nothing here Continue reading
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