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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 52 – Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup
Description: In this Valentine's Day episode, Curt and Kevin discuss a tale of love, longing and murder: Heartbreak Soup (or Sopa de Gran Pena) and its prologue, Chelo's Burden, written and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, from the long-running series Love and Rockets, published by Fantagraphics Books. In the small Latin American town of Palomar, a violent breakup finds dazed, drunken Tip in' Tip in' taken under the wing of headstrong 11-year-old Carmen. Meanwhile, Pipo, Carmen's 14-year-old sister, is quickly falling in love with Manuel, the town's baby-faced lothario. But that doesn't sit well with hot-headed Gato, who carries...