Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #69: Going Back to Green
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #69 by Drew Barth Going Back to Green As comics are still getting set back up from Diamond Distributors’ pause during the COVID crisis, it still helps to dive into what we already have laying in our to-be-read piles. I’m finally getting mine into the lower end of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #68: Post-Friday
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #68 by Drew Barth Post-Friday It’s the final Wednesday in this April that has felt like it’s lasted maybe a week, and we are getting reports that Diamond Distributors will begin shipping again come May 20th. But in this interim, other avenues for distribution have opened. DC has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #67: Deep Time
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #67 by Drew Barth Deep Time It’s about mid-way to Halloween, so you know what that means: it’s time to talk about ghosts. The history of ghosts in comic fiction is long, storied, and paved with some of the best characters the medium has to offer. Everything from… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #66: Crate Digging
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #66 by Drew Barth Crate Digging We find ourselves in week three of Diamond Distributors’ hiatus from weekly comics, so it’s time for some catching up. Personally, I’ve been going through a backlog nearing two hundred issues, but during this isolation I’ve also had time to dig through… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #65: Detective of the Century
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #65 by Drew Barth Detective of the Century John Allison is one of the most consistent comic writers of the past twenty-five years. Starting out with Bobbinsin 1998, his characters and story evolved into Scary-Go-Rounda few years after (around the time I jumped in), which led to Bad… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #64: The Big Reads
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #64 by Drew Barth The Big Reads We’ve got some spare time on our hands. I personally have been watching way more cooking videos on YouTube than I thought possible. Luckily, there’s a wealth of longer comic content that can help bridge those days a bit better than… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #63: We’re All In This Together
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #63 by Drew Barth We’re All In This Together If you’re like me, you enjoy the weekly excursion to your local comic shop every Wednesday to pick up your fresh batch of monthlies. But our weeks are getting different now. Even Diamond, the main distributor of comics for… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #62: A Trip Down the River
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #62 by Drew Barth A Trip Down the River Let’s take our minds off the world by thinking of the underworld, specifically a new vision of what it could look like through the eyes of creator Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky in Persephone. Locatelli-Kournwsky blends myth with modern storytelling influences, especially Hayao Miyazaki.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #61: State of War
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #61 by Drew Barth State of War In the pantheon of planets in the DC Universe, Rann is underrated. By all accounts, it is considered a paradise in its small corner of the galaxy. Its capital city, Ranagar, looks as though it were carved from glass in the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #60: Stick ‘Em Up
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #60 by Drew Barth Stick ‘Em Up Vault Comics continues to impress. I’ve previously written about them here. Since last year, Vault has become a consistent figure on the weekly comic shelves. While their series are typically science fiction, fantasy, horror, or some combination of those three, this last… Continue reading
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