Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #290: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 11
Another week, another lack of a major historical event, another opportunity for my stress ulcer to heal, and another dive into the backlogged pile that sits in the corner of my room watching me sleep. But then things just watching you sleep is rather mild compared to something creeping out of the dream realm and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #288: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 9
Like many long-running series, my pile of neglected to-be-read comics does seem to be endless. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t without a certain continuity to it. For instance, last week, I had written about Grant Morrison’s run on The Green Lantern and the ways they play with core foundational elements of Green Lantern as a character as… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #287: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 8
Digging through my pile of finished series that I’ve yet to actually read has revealed a few things thus far. One of those is that I’ve become so good at putting off reading some of these series that they’ve survived two separate house moves between getting them and actually sitting down to read them. The… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #286: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 7
After looking at The Power Fantasy the other week, I had another look at the ever-dwindling backlog still gathering dust on my shelf. I assumed the issues of Wonder Woman I went through were the oldest thing in the pile, but there’s a series from Kieron Gillen tucked away under some other series that I’ve somehow put off reading… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #285: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 6
Earlier last year, I had looked at the first issue of Spirit World in conjunction with the recent re-launch of Shazam. I had looked at the ways in which each series approached magic and how they differed in their overall structures. Since then, Spirit World has reached its six-issue conclusion and showed us how Alyssa Wong, Haining, Sebastian Cheng, and Janice… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #284: The Bomb Around the Corner
Another week, another major release by a beloved author. It does feel like we’re getting more and more new series that feel essential to the medium as art and writing are in a near constant fight against the encroachment of computer generated slop. But then that’s what makes these series feel all the more special… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #283: The Gardens Will Never Hurt You
Going deeper into my unread pile, we find—wait, Gerard Way just released a new comic, so we’re shifting a bit this week. While we haven’t seen a new comic from the My Chemical Romance singer since 2020’s The True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys sequel, we are immediately entering into more bizarre territory in their new series with… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #282: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 5
What, you thought I was done with my pile? My ability to not do things is only beaten by ability to put other things off until they’ve collected dust or canon irrelevance. But, unlike my procrastination, good stories persist regardless. And there are some stories that are solid, but get swept up into a large-scale… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #281: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 4
Don’t you miss the weekends where the existential dread didn’t set in? Me neither, now let’s talk about Wonder Woman. And this is an evergreen character for the moment as she is meant to represent hope, compassion, and the goodness that we can find in most people. Most, of course, being the key word there.… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to BreakHeart #280: Sleight of Hand
I often forget that Zatara, one of the earliest magicians in the DC Universe, made his first appearance in Action Comics #1 in his own set of adventures alongside Superman’s. And that his daughter, Zatanna, turns 60 this year after decades of guest spots and appearances over any medium a comic character could show up in, is… Continue reading
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