Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #329: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Creatures
I do love a good novella. It isn’t that I want shorter stories, but seeing how an artist works within limited space helps to see the bare essentials of what a good story needs. A graphic novella works well at this length as we’re given more space than a single issue, but just a bit… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #328: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 30
As vast as the pile is, there are still nooks and crannies that have yet to be fully minedt. Namely a small corner with all of the “prestige-sized” books from DC’s Black Label. While I do enjoy the stories, they do get a bit cumbersome in the pile. And if I reviewed this series’ first issue back… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #326: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 29
Did you think that was all I had on that particular run of Harley Quinn? Oh no, the pile is too vast to cut things off after only seventeen issues—this goes so much deeper than that. And for Stephanie Phillips’ run, that means we get to see how much more she can do with the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #325: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 28
The abyss beckons once more as there are depths of the pile that I had almost forgotten about. I do remember ordering some series on a bit of a whim as the writer and artist team sounded like they would make a fun monthly hero comic. And once those issues started coming in, I kept… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #324: A Far Off Time
I’ve talked about anthologies multiple times in this article in the past—there’s very little to not like about them. But when it comes to American comics culture, there hasn’t really been a mainstream anthology series that’s been consistently published. We have our shorter anthologies here and there for a few years, but there’s nothing here… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #323: A Shopping Trip
My earliest memories of department stores were dragging my feet through a JCPenny while my family contemplated deals. The one thing I could think to do in order to alleviate the boredom was hiding inside the circular clothes racks until someone asked where I was and emerged like a hermit, unaware of how much time… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #322: Maybe Jersey is Just Like This
In the grand pantheon of cryptids, there’s no debate as to who holds the highest reign: Sasquatch, Mothman, the Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra. But there’s always those other cryptozoological oddities that inspire the imagination and yet never seem to warrant the research or museums the others do, despite how much I would love to see… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #321: Rooted in the Past
Growing up, I remember the woods as small spaces between corn and wheat fields. They were staccato bursts of green between the yellow-beige that surrounds nearly every small town in the midwest. But those woods were always a constant, as isolated as they were. Stories inevitably crop up about them—who was lost in them in… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #320: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 27
Earlier this month, I wrote about one part of my pile—the collected editions I need to buy since I can’t get my single issues to complete a series—so now it’s time to move onto the issues I was able to get a hold of from the same series. But this one comes with a bit more… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #319: Our Favorite Martian
I remember being 11 years-old when the first episode of Justice League premiered. This was the first time I’d seen many of the heroes that would become staples of my comic reading future: Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash. But there was this teal-colored martian that I didn’t know existed until that moment. He was something I’d… Continue reading
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