Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #317: Running to the Future
I don’t know how many mecha series there are in comics every year, but I always make an attempt to dive into as many as I can. Could it be the residual impact of Pacific Rim on my psyche twelve years later? Perhaps. But it’s also just the allure of giant robots and the suite of stories… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #316: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 25
So, we’ve hit twenty-five of these things. I’ve got to start reading more often for spontaneous fun again. Going back to the original pile, though, there’s always going to be some series that have been dust-collecting there that began as limited series before being picked up for something longer. That happened with Once and Future and Damn Them… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #314: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 24
And if you can believe it, my pile of comics to be read doesn’t just extend to the monthly issues I’ve been chipping away at—there’s graphic novels here too. How long have I had some of these? Hey, man, don’t even worry about that part. But I’ve been holding onto them a while either because… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #313: Framing the Guilty
Sometimes there’s weird coincidences in what I’m reading. As I’ve been chipping away at Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, I began reading a series that I had first thought was simply a murder mystery before the appreciation of pieces of furniture and their connection to said murder came into play. It’s a congruity I never expect, but it’s the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #312: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 23
The early 2010s were a special time for Image Comics. Series like Saga, Sex Criminals, The Wicked + The Divine, East of West, Bitch Planet, and others were showing what a comics publisher could really do when it let creators make the kinds of comics they wanted to see—something Image had done in the 90s to various levels of success. But… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #311: The Detective Eats His Own Tail
I’ve read enough Grant Morrison comics to know that characters meeting their creators rarely goes well for the character. And while I did touch on the first issue of Peter Milligan, Raül Fernandez, Giada Marchisio, and Jeff Eckleberry’s Profane, the final issue came out not too long—for me at least—ago and the story continues its playing with the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #310: Never Blunders
Last year, I wrote about the first issue of Juni Ba, Chris O’Halloran, and Aditya Bidikar’s The Boy Wonder. This was a first issue that brought us back into the perspective of Damian Wayne and his first bit of time as Robin. While things didn’t go well for him, they were going even less well for the child… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #309: The Big Picture
The image of New York City is something ingrained in the DNA of comics. DC’s initial office on Broadway, the main hub of activity in the Marvel universe, and countless other creators can all trace their origins to the city. And in that urbanist center, stories swell. The throngs of people, the iconic skyscrapers and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #308: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 23
In the process of going through the endless vastness of my pile, I’ve discovered things that I haven’t thought about in years. Specifically, I’ve pulled from the pile two 80th anniversary issues that DC had put out in 2020 and 2021. I had forgotten that these even existed, but the memory of going to the closest… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #307: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 22
I feel nostalgia for stories about transforming heroes. Not simply people who put on a costume and play the role, but the ones who have the costume within and perform a little ritual and sequence each time the costume comes out. These series with their henshins, magical girls, and motorcycle fighters captures a specific wonder that’s… Continue reading
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