Who would have thought it would have made it here in time for the holidays, but it did:  another year of the pinhead, Griffy and the rest of the crew.  This strip just keeps getting better; and now this collection is all that we have left to console us here in Pittsburgh, as those fools at the Post-Gazette cut him down in his prime >sob!<.  But console us it will:  it's a great collection!

While we’re still in the thick of the Love and Rockets 40th anniversary celebrations, here’s a reminder of why we’re celebrating.  It’s not just that Love Rockets started forty years ago, but that there has been forty years of continuous creation.  Here are a big batch of comics by Gilbert Hernandez that were originally published during the first decade of the new millennium.  This volume collects for the first time anywhere a collaboration between Mario and Gilbert, “Me for the Unknown”, which originally appeared in the second, standard comic book format, volume of Love and Rockets, roughly twenty years ago.  Also here from that second volume, is “Julio’s Day”, a graphic novel length work which ran through most of the issues.  And then, finally, the centerpiece of this collection, "The Children of Palomar" saga collects the complete three issue "Ignatz" series, New Tales of Old Palomar, originally published in 2006-08.  These stories display Beto's talent for up close and personal stories set amidst deftly rendered landscapes that are by turn haunting and enchanting and also marked the long-awaited return to the the land of "Heartbreak Soup”…