Booksplode #74 – Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection (2025)

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we’re proud to present another Booksplode! This month, Conor Kilpatrick and Ron Richards take a look at… Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection from 2025 by Jaime Hernandez. Running Time: 00:29:13 What’s a Booksplode? It’s a monthly special edition show in which we take a look at a single graphic novel or collected edition (or an old single issue), something we really just don’t have time to do on the regular show. How to Read Love and Rockets. Music:“Oxnard”Ill Repute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So it's interesting, you got me this for Christmas. Yeah. And I was like, oh, Jaime Hernandez did OGM. That's cool. And then I opened it up and I saw, you know, and then Indisha said, collecting Love and Rockets. And I went, oh, fuck. Because 10 years ago, you got me the Maggie Mechanic collection. Yep. which was a collection of Love and Rocket stuff
0:21.1	from the came out of 2017.
0:22.8	And I did not like it.
0:24.6	So I was like, oh, shit.
0:46.3	Yeah. Oxnard! Oxnard!
0:47.3	North Kool!
0:52.3	And I care of people say, I'm sure to the place me, I'm a briefed together. We're going to die. Awesome. Hello, welcome my fanboy of Bookspload. We're talking about Life Drawing, a Love and Rockets Collection. My name is Connor. Kilpatrick. With me is Ron Richards. Hey, Connor. How you doing? And this is our monthly graphic novel review show that we do it every month.
1:11.3	We talk about a collected edition.
1:12.4	We talk about OGM, anything other than the regular single issue comic book, which you talk
1:16.5	about in the pick of the week show.
1:17.3	We talk about here.
1:17.8	The monthly book explode that was unlocked by the patrons at patreon.com slash I family.
1:21.1	In a book format.
1:22.5	It's a book.
1:22.8	It's got to be a book.
1:23.2	It's got to be a book. It's got to be a book. It's got to be a book. Unless it was last month, which we talked about an issue. True. Fair enough. There are no rules. Yeah, there are no, whatever. Yeah.
1:30.2	We talked about an old comic because we wanted to. Yeah, that's right. We're in charge.
1:33.6	A comic book is a comic book. But yeah. Yeah. So the patrons will unlock the show. Thanks for
1:38.4	being a patron if you did. Thanks for unlocking the show. We enjoyed doing this. So we were kicking around what to talk about this month. And Ron suggested we talk about life drawing. Jaime Hernandez.
1:46.9	Jaime Hernandez, which collects the selections from several Love and Rockets. Why don't we talk
1:52.0	about what Love and Rockets is because you're a big Love and Rockets fan. Yeah. So just be specific.
1:56.5	So Life Drawing by Jaime Hernandez, published by Fan of Graphics, came out last year.
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