Grant Morrison
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #381: Something Unseen
This far into a series, you would think we’d have a solid understanding of how the story, world, or characters can go. We know who these people are and what the Invisibles as an organization is like. Or, rather, we have an understanding of what we think these characters and organization are like. For the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #379: And Exiting Elsewhere
Escalation is narratively routine: you start slow before getting to the point where you can meet god or go to space. Sometimes, though, “slow” can involve an immediate escalation to meeting god, so long as your setting allows. If the setting allows you to peer into a collapsing hyper-dimension exacerbated by the nanoparticles of a dreaded… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #378: Deeper Down the Well
Any good team book needs a few issues where you learn more about the people we’re following. While the first volume of The Invisibles focuses primarily on Dane McGowan—our lad is going to be the focal-point for much of the series—for the second volume, we start seeing the foundations of others on the team and a basis… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #377: What Is a Revolution?
We typically think of the ways in which monthly comics changed in the 80s with series like Watchmen, Doom Patrol, Batman: Year One, and a host of others. But the shifting visual narrative perspectives culminated in the 90s with many of the classic series that would come to define Vertigo not only as an imprint, but as a kind… 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 #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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Heroes Never Rust #49: Is Gud Dog?
Heroes Never Rust #49 by Sean Ironman Is Gud Dog? To me, the comics medium is my favorite medium for stories. I like movies. I like TV. Prose. Poetry. Music. I like stories, but I love comics. One of the reasons I love comics is that I feel artists can do more in a comic… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #40: All Will Be Well
Heroes Never Rust #40 by Sean Ironman All Will Be Well The riot portion of the “Riot at Xavier’s” storyline has yet to begin. New X-Men #136 ends with Quentin Quire shouting “Riot!” into a bullhorn on Open Day, a day Xavier invited humans to the school. A sort-of Open House. But, except for the… Continue reading
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