Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36: The Comeback
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #36 by Drew Barth The Comeback On rare occasions, comic series go on extended hiatuses before returning in a glorious fashion. Two such series—Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ Pretty Deadly—have each made a such return after three-year breaks. Launched in 2013,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35: And Once Again
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #35 by Drew Barth And Once Again Five years. That’s how long Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles have been creating The Wicked + The Divine. With that forty-fifth issue just being released this past week, it’s hard not to get nostalgic. Whether it was through… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34: A Shorter Piece
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #34 by Drew Barth A Shorter Piece Many of the works discussed in this blog over the past months have been long-running series or graphic novels. And all of those have been great. There’s an expansiveness to many of those works. In a way, many of these series… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33: No One’s Left
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #33 by Drew Barth No One’s Left I’ve talked about shonen manga a few times on here—both positively and negatively—but it’s hard to overstate the influence shonen as a genre has had on western comics. Many creators have talked about their love for the genre as younger kids… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32: Fantasy House Party
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #32 by Drew Barth Fantasy House Party With the recent publication of DIE #6, I was reminded of another series that I had written about previously: Coda. With its examination of fantasy tropes and classic D&D character classes as starting points for exploring what fantasy is and what it… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #31: Paper Folding
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #31 by Drew Barth Paper Folding In comics, Brian K. Vaughn is a great character writer. Between Y: The Last Man, Runaways, or the perennial favorite, Saga, Vaughn has proven himself a master of character—whether it be character creation, character arcs, or specific character defining moments. He has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #30: I Was Told By
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #30 by Drew Barth I Was Told By Imagine, as wild as this sounds, that the United States becomes a theocratic, imperialistic super-state that invades Canada because the Lord said so. That is the story-ground that Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram set their series Little Bird upon. Little… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #29: Cracking Open the Vault
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #29 by Drew Barth Cracking Open the Vault I talked a few weeks ago about the closure of Vertigo, the first mainstream purveyor of independent-minded comic work. Vertigo’s spirit has lived on in other publishers like Image, Oni Press, Aftershock, Black Mask, and many othesr. Fairly recently, like… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #28: Pros of Cons
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #28 by Drew Barth Pros of Cons Another year and another round of San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. I’m not going to lie, it’s hard to keep track of the avalanche of information continually coming out of the San Diego Convention Center. The problem with a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #27: Deep Background
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #27 by Drew Barth Deep Background A new reader looks at issue #1007 of Detective Comics and would likely feel intimidated. There’s much to be said for a short series. It’s why I was recently drawn to Coda or Cemetery Beach, which tell fantastic stories that actually, satisfyingly end. DC… Continue reading
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