The Comics Interpreter #6
48-pages, standard size
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In celebration of two decades of Love & Rockets capped by the title's rebirth, TCI #6 offers up a Brothers Hernandez tribute, including all new interviews with Gilbert and Jaime. What do Los Bros think about contentious readers, big asses, the LAPD, Love & Rockets (The band!), Henry Rollins, Tom Strong, goths, wrestlers, Joey Ramone, Marvel pogs, and the "strange world of men?" What famous comic book writer does Jaime envision as Spooky The Smokey? And just what does Forrest Whitaker, Frida Kahlo, and J-Lo(!) have to do with any of this? All will be revealed.

Also commentaries on Los Bros influence from an amazing variety of comics luminaries: DARICK ROBERTSON explain how he begged, borrowed and pleaded a trio of TRANSMET covers out of Jaime. NICK ABADZIS (Hugo Tate) tells of having a beer with Gilbert after hours at Angouleme. ANDI WATSON (Skeleton Key) talks up "Ape Sex". DAVID CHOE (Slow Jams, NYX) gives a blow-by-nasty-blow tally of every sex scene in Gilbert's porno classic Birdland. And GENE PHILLIPS explains L&R's Archie connection. And more.

Plus reviews of Penny Century and L&R 1&2 Vol. 2, an essay about 20 years of the L&R letters page; and TCI's own letters page with new missives from Choe, Evan Dorkin and Brett Warnock.

Finally, there's a lushly illustrated six-page interview with JAMIE DELANO. The acclaimed Vertigo scribe talks of his work on Hellblazer, 20/20 Visions, and Cruel & Unusual among others, and gives some fascinating insights about his writing process and the industry in general. It's about time we learned just where "Virus-heads, block czars," and "orange fireball orgasms" came from. And just what did Delano have to say about Warren Ellis, anyway?

All under a color cover by Abadzis that shines like the sun itself.