Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #46: Furthest Star
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #46 by Drew Barth Furthest Star In the pantheon of DC heroes, Green Lantern has maintained as one of the most iconic characters for the past eighty years. From the white gloves to the lantern battery to the green rings around their fingers, Green Lanterns are one of… Continue reading
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Comics are Trying to Break Your Heart #45: Devil’s Night
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #45 by Drew Barth Devil’s Night I love, and always will love, short works. Blasts of story and character that know the precise moment to end with the biggest impact possible. Warren Ellis in his newsletter years ago ruminated on the idea of a graphic novella that would… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #44: Slipping Through the Cracks
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #44 by Drew Barth Slipping Through the Cracks Throughout the year, hundreds of comics are released. Dozens of new series begin. Sometimes those new series escape the eye of even eager readers. This happens to me every few months—a series just doesn’t appear on the new release calendar… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #43: The Black Stairs Label
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #43 by Drew Barth The Black Stairs Label Roughly a year ago, DC introduced their new imprint: DC Black Label. This was their newest excursion into more mature themed books set within the mainline DC Universe separate from their Vertigo imprint. With Vertigo’s dissolution earlier this year, there… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #42: Haunting the Panels
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #42 by Drew Barth Haunting the Panels It is the eve of All Hallows Eve! For this, the spookiest time of the year, we have looked at some of the greatest masters of horror comics as well as a new series likely going to maintain chills well into… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41: A Short Break
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #41 by Drew Barth A Short Break This week we’re going to take a break from the spooks—although there are some spooks in the comics I’m going to mention—and shift our focus to boxes. Everyone remembers Loot Crate from a couple years ago and the various comic-related paraphernalia… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40: Another Master of Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #40 by Drew Barth Another Master of Horror The spooks continue this week with a look at another creator whose work has kept me awake on more than one occasion: Junji Ito. His work has become synonymous with horror manga over the last fifteen years in the US.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #39: Master of Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #39 by Drew Barth Master of Horror Alex Toth as an artist and illustrator is an unsung masters of the medium. Toth strove to push the boundaries of what a comic could do in terms of creating panels, lines of sight, and use of shadows. Using simple black… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38: Dipping Into Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #38 by Drew Barth Dipping Into Horror It’s October this year, so you know what that means: thirteen months until the next presidential election. Also, Halloween—the best time of the year as a different kind of horror (finally) can grip our imaginations. From the ghosts, ghouls, and other… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #37: Much About Samurai and Mecha Comics have always been political despite what some in the fandom scream on Twitter. If any singular creator’s work has enhanced the political in contemporary comics, it is writer Greg Pak. His work with Boom! Studios, like the series Ronin Island with Giannis… Continue reading
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