I Really Like These New L&R Books



Like the title says, I like the new re-packaging of the Love and Rockets library. It's one of those few re-issues, like the serialization of the Ed the Happy Clown story from Yummy Fur over the last couple of years, where I'm happy to buy them even though I have the work in multiple, previous formats. These new paperbacks are cheaper than the original trade series by I think about a third, the packaging is just as attractive as the classic Dale Yarger designs, and the books are serialized by artist from the start. They're more fun to hold and lend out and have on your lap than the giant books from a couple of years back.

My enjoyment of these books has a personal, ironic element in that I always wanted smaller books that contained single stories rather than, say, "Death of Speedy" back to back with "In the Valley of the Polar Bears." But these new groupings I seem to enjoy, even though the cut-off points are equally arbitrary. I think it's an issue of proximity. A lot of the short stories like "The Return of Ray D." seem to have greater heft when they're near stories on either side that comment more directly on the same characters and situations, whereas during the original serialization the ones that stood out the most were the more stand-alone stories, like the excellent "Spring 1982."
 
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