Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #16: Green Galaxy
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #16 by Drew Barth Green Galaxy If modern superhero comics are good at anything, it’s amalgamating. Cape comics are already deeply entrenched in popular culture and, as a result, are equally influenced by popular culture around them. And this influence can have a fun echo effect. DC Comics,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #15: Graphic Cannon
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #15 by Drew Barth Graphic Cannon For this blog, I’ve mainly focused on the serialized comics since I’m in A Comic Shop every Wednesday. But graphic novels are a bit different. Their releases are scheduled like books, typically on Tuesdays or Fridays, and are new, original works that have… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #14: Let Me Tell You About Homestuck
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #14 by Drew Barth Let Me Tell You About Homestuck Let’s talk about April 13th, 2009. Andrew Hussie, creator of MS Paint Adventures, had recently completed his latest webcomic endeavor in Problem Sleuth and was beginning to launch his next project. MS Paint Adventures had garnered a decent following… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #13: Hitch a Ride to Cemetery Beach
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #13 by Drew Barth Hitch a Ride to Cemetery Beach Let’s talk about action comics. Not Action Comics. Rather comics that are quick, dynamic, and bursting at the brim with explosions. Action comics in this vein are typically shorter series that take a single idea and develop it… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #12: Firsts: Invisible Kingdom
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #12 by Drew Barth Firsts: Invisible Kingdom I’ve said it multiple times at this point: first issues are difficult. There are story lines, settings, characters, and, more or less, the core of the series to introduce and get running for readers in the span of twenty-two to thirty-something… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #11: Two Times
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #11 by Drew Barth Two Times First issues are notoriously difficult to get just right. Those first moments of a comic’s life need to set up characters, setting, story, and a whole hook to keep readers interested for the next month’s issue. Writing these first issues is laborious… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #10: Series Update–East of West
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #10 by Drew Barth Series Update–East of West In writing all of these articles so far, I mostly discuss the cool new thing. Yet on more than none occasion I have heard “But what about series that aren’t new? What about a series that’s been going on for… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #9: Turn It Off and Turn It On Again
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #9 by Drew Barth Turn It Off and Turn It On Again Most monthly comics are built upon legacies and reboots of older characters. Essentially, most superhero comic fiction is officially-sanctioned fanfiction as the original authors are either no longer writing, no longer living, or both. As a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #8: The Royal Road of Comics
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #8 by Drew Barth The Royal Road of Comics Last week was looking at the numbers and making some guesses about why some comics sell and potentially why others aren’t doing as well, but what makes those comics good? What makes them resonate with readers in such a way… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #7: Looking at Numbers
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #7 by Drew Barth Looking at Numbers Not too long ago I received an email from Diamond Book Distributors about the top selling graphic novels of 2018. These are the kinds of lists I love to see because there’s always a direct comparison between what’s considered to be… Continue reading
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