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There is good news and bad news. Host Derek Coward debuts a new podcast about Love and Rockets. The good news is he explains the show’s format and goes over the story ‘Chelo’s Burden’. The bad news is he cannot think of a good name for the show.

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I’m trying to come up with a name for my new podcast about Love and Rockets. I am torn between being specific or being clever.

The Love and Rockets Cast
Flies On The Ceiling
Flies On The Ceiling: A Love and Rockets Podcast
Greetings From Palomar/Greetings From Hoppers
A Podcast About Heartbreak Soup and Maggie and Hopey

I’m leaning heavily towards the third one. What do you think?

Tags: love and rockets, The Readerfeed

This was an extremely heavy week.

Locas 2 hardcover (Fantagraphics)
Love and Rockets: The New Stories 2 (Fantagraphics)
Wednesday Comics 9 (DC Comics)
Wednesday Comics 10 (DC Comics)
Proof 23 (Image)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? 3 (BOOM! Studios)
Magog 1 (DC Comics)
Incognito 6 (Icon)
The Incredible Hulk 600 (Marvel)
The Red Circle: The Web 1 (DC Comics)
The Red Circle: The Hangman (DC Comics)
The Red Circle: Inferno (DC Comics)
The Shield (DC Comics)
Irredeemable 6 (BOOM! Studios)
Madame Xanadu 6 (Vertigo)
Madame Xanadu 7 (Vertigo)
Adventure Comics 504 (DC Comics)

Very heavy week. I bought the Locas 2 hardcover even though I already had one because it was damaged and I got it at a good price. I will be giving away the good copy on an upcoming episode of the show. I got the Madame Xanadu issues because I was missing them. Unfortunately I got Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? 3 even though I am missing #2.

Tags: adventure comics, do androids dream of electric sheep, incognito, incredible hulk, irredeemable, love and rockets, madame xandau, magog, proof, the red circle, wednesday comics

After a weekend of buying comic books at Heroes Con and then going to Detroit Comics, I was pleasantly surprised when I got a package of comic books that I bought from Heath Holland a while back.

Here’s what I picked up:
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book (Yes, this is the fourth time I have bought this particular story, but it is one of the best stories of all time) TPB
Arana Vol. 1 Digest
Arana Vol. 2 Digest
Dynamo 5: Post-Nuclear Family Vol. 1 TPB
Justice Vol 1 HC

Tags: alex ross, arana, dynamo 5, heartbreak soup, justice, love and rockets

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Host Derek Coward starts out by answering some feedback but after spending almost half an hour talking about Love and Rockets, he decided to give up and just make this another Love and Rockets episode.

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Host Derek Coward talks about his personal history with Love and Rockets, proposes a new name for Free Comic Book Day, reviews the Love and Rockets FCBD Edition and gives some recommendations for leaving feedback for this particular episode.

Amazon links:

Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets)
Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories (Love & Rockets)
Love & Rockets Vol 10: Love and Rockets X
Love & Rockets Vol. 9: Flies on the Ceiling
Love & Rockets Vol. 12: Poison River
The Education of Hopey Glass (Love & Rockets)

Tags: free comic book day, locas, love and rockets, palomar

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Host Derek Coward receives a few minicomics in the mail and that leads to a talk about odd shaped comic books.

Discuss the show here

Related Links:
Dutchy Digest
Bruce Rosenberger’s minicomics
XO
Lost Kisses
Worms
Silber Records
Vertical
Love & Rockets Vol 10: Love and Rockets X-Amazon link
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 (No. 1)-Amazon link
Love & Rockets: Heartbreak Soup-Amazon link
Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories-Amazon link
Reticent Heart and Other Stories-Amazon link
Lost Women and Other Stories-Amazon link
Mouse Guard
The Complete Popeye Vol. Six (1930-1931)
Bite Club
Serenity: Those Left Behind
Serenity
Firefly – The Complete Series-Amazon link
Adventure Comics
Legion of Super-Heroes
Supergirl
Challengers of The Unknown
Spectre
Wildcat
Sandman
Captain Marvel Jr.
Aquaman
Gravity
Sentinel
Runaways
Daddy’s Girl
A Contract With God
Maus

Tags: A Contract With God, adventure comics, aquaman, Art Spiegleman, Bite Club, bruce rosenberger, Captain Marvel Jr., Challengers of The Unknown, Daddy's Girl, dutchy digest, fantagraphics, firefly, gilbert hernandez, Gravity, Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories, Hopey, jaime hernandez, Laura Allred, legion of super-heroes, Lost Kisses, love and rockets, Love and Rockets X, love and rockets: the new stories, Luba, Maggie, Maus, Mike Allred, minicomics, Mouse Guard, Philip Bond, runaways, Sandman, Sentinel, serenity, Serenity: Those Left Behind, Spectre, Steven Seagle, supergirl, The Complete Popeye, The Lost Women, The Reticent Heart, Vertical, Wildcat, will eisner, Worms, XO

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Host Derek Coward finishes his look at the best of 2008 by talking about the titles that he has heard good things about but has never checked out yet, best miniseries that didn’t finish in 2008, best #1 comics of 2008 and the best graphic novels.

Related links (*-Amazon link, so help a brother out):
* Rasl Volume 1: The Drift
The Boy Who Made Silence
* House of Mystery
* Young Liars
* Captain Britain and MI:13
‘76
* Tangent: Superman’s Reign
The Infinite Horizon
Stephen King’s The Stand: Captain Trips
* The Twelve
* Love and Rockets: New Stories #1
* Madame Xanadu #1
Comic Book Comics
* Locke & Key
Kick-Ass
* Man With No Name
* Queen and Country Definitive Edition
* Noble Causes Archives
* The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer
* Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician

Tags: '76, 11 O'Clock Comics, 52, a fistful of dollars, action philosophers, alan moore, alex ross, amazon marketplace, amy reeder hadley, andy diggle, angela paman, b clay moore, babylon five, batman, best of 2008, black canary, black samurai, black terror, blaxsploitation, bone, booster gold, brian azzarello, bruce jones, bruce le, bruce li, bruce wayne, bryan deemer, camelot, captain britain and mi13, captain trips, charles vess, chinese connection, chris marshall, chris weston, christopher neseman, civil war, classics illustrated, clint eastwood, collected comics library, comic book comics, comics code authority, continuity, cool, countdown to final crisis, dabel brothers, dan jurgens, dan spiegle, daredevil, dark horse, dc comics, dead world: frozen over, death defying devil, desperado publishing, detroit comics, dynamite entertainment, ec comics, evil twin comics, evil white cops, fifth week event, first comics, for a few dollars more, fred van lente, frederic wertham, gabriel rodriguez, game of death, Geek Brunch, geoff johns, golden age heroes, graphic novels, green arrow, green arrow year one, green lama, green lantern, greg rucka, guy pearce, heartbreak soup, hellblazer, hellblazer joy ride, hellblazer the laughing magician, hippies, house of mystery, house of secrets, hulk, idw, image comics, inferno, infinite horizon, invincible iron man, irresponsible speculation, j michael straczynski, jackie chan, jackie karma, james caviezel, jamie delano, jay faerber, jeff smith, jim krueger, jlapes, joe hill, john constantine, john stewart, jsa, kick-ass, kung fu movies, legion of super-heroes archives, leonard kirk, leonardo manco, lex luthor, little gold book, locas, locke and key, love and rockets, love and rockets: the new stories, madame xanadu, magneto, manhattan, mark evanier, markosia comics, marvel comics, matt fraction, matt wagner, matthew sturges, mike grell, new universe, next issue project, noble causes, noble causes archives, oliver queen, omega the unknown, oni press, oz, palomar, paul cornell, perhapanauts, peter david, phantom stranger, power girl, project superpowers, proof, psi-force, public domain, queen and country, queen and country definitive edition, racist hero, rasl, ryan dunleavy, salvation run, scott cederlund, secret invasion, sergio leone, seth peck, shared universe, shazam and the monster society of evil, spaghetti western, spider-man, stephen king, steve sadowski, sting, superman, swamp thing, tangent comics, tara chace, the atom, The Boy Who Made Silence, the count of monte cristo, the demon etrigan, the flash, the good the bad and the ugly, the joker, the losers, the man with no name, the odyssey, the programme, The Readerfeed, the stand, the sword, the twelve, the unexpected, the yellow kid, vandal savage, vertigo, Vince Bonovoglia, waiting for the trade, walking dead, wally west, watchmen, wednesday's haul, white event, wonder woman, wonderland, young liars, zero killer, zombie

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I talk about where I have been, where I am now and where I am going. Oh and the name I couldn’t remember was Trenchcoat Mafia.

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Tags: anniversary issues, black summer, blood syndicate, brian matus, brian michael bendis, countdown to final crisis, damian smith, darkseid, deathwish, detroit comics, final crisis, gaming, gerry conway, gilbert hernandez, hardware, heroes, icon, immortal iron fist, inferno, invincible iron man, jaime hernandez, justice league of america, kobalt, local comic shops, long hot summer, love and rockets, matt fraction, mighty avengers, milestone comics, my name is holocaust, new avengers, podcast x, quantum and woody, reign in blood, san diego comicon, shadown cabinet, silver age, sports cards, statis, superman, teen titans, The Readerfeed, the twelve, THOOM, thor, tim terrell, tom katers, uncanny x-men, war is hell: the first flight of the phantom eagle, worlds collide, X-Infernus, xombi