PUSHERMAN: Love and Rockets–the first one’s free! Special network-TV edition.

If you like Veronica Mars…

…and you want more of Veronica and Lilly: Wigwam Bam.

…and you want more Weevil: All of it!!!! but maybe start with The Death of Speedy.

…and you really like the California setting: Try X (volume 10). I wasn’t into it–it’s actually the only volume of L&R; about which I don’t feel wildly positive–but I do think people would love it if they’re into what V-Mars presents itself as trying to do, with the Cali race-and-class mystery setting. Blood of Palomar might also hit your kink–the central story, “Human Diastrophism,” is a horror mystery set in South America, just chilling.

All of these except the last are Jaime Hernandez rec’s. I’ll do Gilbert rec’s later if I can think of a cool hook.

(In re current television generally, my roundup: V-Mars seems unlikely ever to return to the high standard set by s1 [although s2’s “Plan B” might be the best episode of the show ever filmed]; Top Chef is fun; pacing, dialogue, and acting problems killed my love for the innovative superpowers show Heroes, but you might like it; the one episode I’ve seen of Studio 60 suggested that everything they say is true, which isn’t a good thing.)