Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #301: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 18
That was a nice interview last week, wasn’t it? But now we return to the ever diminishing pile that isn’t quite as diminishing as new comics are still being added to it. Even still, it dwindles like a snowman in February and we chip more away at it. This week’s focus is going to be on another… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #300: Brian Michael Bendis Interview
This week drew talks to Brian Michael Bendis about his and Andre Lima Araujo’s new graphic novel Phenomena Book 2: Matilde’s Quest, world building, and the function of stories and legacies. Drew Barth (Episode 331, 485, & 510) resides in Winter Park, FL. He received his MFA from the University of Central Florida. Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #299: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 17
If ever there was a driver for conflict in a story, the dysfunction of a family that’s been estranged for years and unable to talk about their issues in a constructive way is one of the more reliable. Another driver can also be the giant aliens that the family has a responsibility to eviscerate with… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #298: Starting with Wonders
Comics need jumping-on points. There’s a certain difficulty in attempting to get someone to join in on reading some characters and series when they only have a general idea of who that person is or what their story entails. It’s why DC’s long-running Year One stories have ended up filling that niche for new fans to… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #296: My Old Friend
I see we’ve boarded the Hindenburg and are well on our way to New Jersey. What happens after that is going to be for everyone on the ground to determine. But in the meantime, as we prepare ourselves for what may come, we at least have comics. I’ve gone on over and over before about… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #295: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 15
Once again, I’m writing this article on the precipice of election day and, just like before, it feels like an exercise in routine. I’m reviewing the menu on the Hindenburg on the fifth of May kind of anxiety, you know? And yet, I still need to sift through my pile of comics, some of which… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #294: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 14
After coming home from a long trip into the Midwest and Wisconsin, it’s only appropriate that I dive into a comic that’s been sitting on my shelf for three years that somehow takes place in a very lovely house on a lake in Wisconsin. It really is a picturesque manor by this lake with the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #293: Energized and Anthologized Vol. 5
Would you believe we can interrupt one long-running series with an even older and longer-running series? I’ve got no qualms with it, especially since it’s to cover the revival of one of the best comics anthologies this century. Ex.Mag was a series of anthologies from Peow Studios a few years ago—my last review of its fourth… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #292: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 13
What was I saying last week? Never mind that, we got more DC miniseries to wade through this week. And the next. And the next. But this time, as with last week, I’m returning to a series I had touched on briefly last year that introduces us to a new character in DC canon with a fairly… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #291: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 12
Would you believe there’s more in my pile than a dozen DC series that I haven’t gotten around to? My procrastination knows no bounds or publisher size. But, at the very least, this is a series that isn’t coming from 2021 or something I’ve yet to touch on at all. In fact, I did write… Continue reading
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