tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post8979670235483156297..comments2024-03-29T00:20:03.012+13:00Comments on The Tearoom of Despair: The perfect comic: Love and Rockets # 28Bob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-57275325283148703552012-08-10T01:33:51.076+12:002012-08-10T01:33:51.076+12:00Great choice. One of the early L&R letters col...Great choice. One of the early L&R letters columns described Los Bros Hernandez as "cruel" because they "make me fall in love with ink and paper."Michael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-12989080060618109952012-08-05T01:54:41.292+12:002012-08-05T01:54:41.292+12:00Dear Bob
Great post; you have reminded me what a ...Dear Bob<br /><br />Great post; you have reminded me what a superb comic book this is. I got my L&R comics way up on a shelf above the tv and now, damn you, I'm going to have to clamber up there and risk breaking my neck to read this masterpiece again. The Lar Dog story particularly sticks in my memory, a story soaked on blood and booze, the squalor of Lar Dog's domestic life, his dead marriage and his wife's eyes sequestered behind her glasses.<br /><br />You may even have inspired me to read Gilberto's story about Frida Kahlo. I have to confess, all through the years I have routinely left his pages unread.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your favourite comic. Although I reckon if I'd been sitting on the grass with a girl named Lisa at Timaru's Maori Park Pool reading comics, whatever I was reading would have become my favourite comic.acehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304107832586432483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-90831336376951662322012-08-01T23:29:51.326+12:002012-08-01T23:29:51.326+12:00Great call. I started L&R with #26, which was ...Great call. I started L&R with #26, which was hard going - the end of Diastrophism and the start of Valley of the Polar Bears, neither of which were great jumping-on points.<br /><br />But of course there was enough there to keep me coming back, and #28 was definitely where it all fell into place and I knew I wanted to, and could, navigate and understand these evidently complex and self-assured works. What I love L&R for most is not patronising me or cutting me any slack as a new reader.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02105114526496564116noreply@blogger.com