For those of you who like a bit more -- alright, a lot more -- fantasy mixed in with your graphic novels that celebrate the saving grace of Rock, Red Rocket 7 may be the ticket.  For our money, this book is Allred's most interesting work. This is a budget priced reissue of the original series.  It's 200 pages of full color comics that provides the entire original story & covers & bonus material in a "hi sci fi" 7" square-formatted trade paperback.  Originally released in a 10-issue 10" square format comic book series 10 years ago, it (re)tells the dominant (i.e. - Anglo-centric) history of rock 'n' roll as though it were the story of one lone hero, and thereby welds it to the super-hero genre.  Specifically, reading this version of the history of Rock it feels very much as though it were part of the Marvel Universe, in that everything fits together seamlessly, and everything connects to the lead protagonist, which, then causes the reader to pause and reflect how this way of reading history -- that of positioning an identity that stands in for the reader at the center of the action -- has a strong pull, is a sort of siren song:  it's a pleasure to read, but you end up where you started, alone with the music.  Strange, alienating and yet pleasurable, Red Rocket 7 is a synecdoche for something, we're just not sure what...