Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #26: The Wild Storm
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #26 by Drew Barth The Wild Storm Nearly thirty years ago, we saw the birth of Jim Lee’s WildStorm imprint within Image Comics. The name, taken from Lee’s WildC.A.T.S. and Stormwatch, would typify 90s extreme comics: ultra violence, para-military mercenaries, spandex tighter than skin, spikes on everything, and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #25: Triple Threat
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #25 by Drew Barth Triple Threat A little over a decade ago, Top Cow Productions created a comic competition known as Pilot Season. Pilot Season began with a simple premise: get six creative teams to each produce the first issue of a longer-running series and pitch that story… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #24: Farewell, Vertigo
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #24 by Drew Barth Farewell, Vertigo The news broke early on Friday that DC would soon be shuttering its Vertigo imprint after nearly thirty years as the publisher works to consolidate all of its brands under three new banners: DC Kids, DC Comics, and DC Black Label. This news… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #23: Coda Breaker
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #23 by Drew Barth Coda Breaker There is always going to be a group of writers from the UK that screw with genre conventions and groove their own niches in such a way as to become invaluable members of the comics community. Alan Moore did it. Neil Gaiman… Continue reading
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