Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #6: Get Loud
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #6 by Drew Barth Get Loud Influence is a two-way street. While comics have always worn many of their influences proudly, it gets a little more complicated with music. Musicians will always be fans, but at times it’s a bit more tricky to add that to their work.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #5: The Music Connection
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #5 by Drew Barth The Music Connection There’s a deep and wide history interconnecting music and comics that goes back decades. For now I’m just going to focus on one aspect of it: the ways in which music has influenced comics. These influences go deep. Anything from Bob… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4: The Middle
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #4 by Drew Barth The Middle It’s hard to talk about comics without mentioning specific runs of things. Walt Simonson’s run on Thor, Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette’s Swamp Thing, Paul Cornell and Pete Wood’s Action Comics, etc. “Runs” as they’re typically known are portions of longer running… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3: JUMP for Me
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #3 by Drew Barth JUMP for Me My first major foray into print comics was with Shonen Jumpwhen I was about twelve years old. It wasn’t hard to tempt me with the first issue of it I saw at a CVS—the Yu-Gi-Ohcover and free card on the inside… Continue reading
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