Just as we are being inundated by AI hype, on the verge of being overwhelmed...  Here comes the new issue of Love and Rockets to the rescue!  Gilbert starts things off with a complexly tangled meta-movie/comic featuring two versions of the same "movie", Lie in the Darkness ("based on the story, 'Lie Down in the Dark'") in parallel.  The first is a "never-completed remake" starring Fritz of the (unshown) original, which "starred" her mother, Maria M.  It is rendered in a standard comic book page layout occupying the top 2/3 of each page, while below it, taking up the lower 1/3 of each page, is a later, completed remake, also starring Fritz (sporting a very different "look"), done in a uniform grid of ten square panels, in two rows of five.  This simultaneously makes for an entertaining (if violent) read, a study in cultural trends and, most rewarding of all, a lesson in comics storytelling techniques, as the two approaches are contrasted with each other.  Any and all comics makers will want to spend some time with this one!  But, of course, there's more, much more!  Jaime weighs in with a Maggie and Hopey meetup, some wacky hi-jinx with Alice Brown and Tonta, outer space adventure with Lumina & Co., and, oh yeah, someone gets married...

Love and Rockets!