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Time Codes: 00:00:31 - Introduction 00:03:14 - Hello to Paul! 00:04:44 - Spinning 00:33:30 - Love and Rockets, Vol. 4 #3 01:07:11 - Slots #1 01:25:49 - Wrap up 01:27:12 - Contact us On this week's episode of The Comics Alternative, Paul joins Derek in discussing three exciting new titles. They begin with Spinning, Tillie Walden's new book and her initial release for First Second. What makes this work stand out from her previous comics, such as The End of Summer and I Love This Part, is that it is an outright memoir. This is a coming-of-age narrative, and Walden uses her history of competitive ice skating as a scaffolding for her life story. There's a lot in this memoir about her chosen sport, but Spinning is much more than a book about skating. In it, we see Walden's key relationships, her search for a mother figure, and her coming out to family and friends. Next, the guys check out the latest issue of Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics). In this issue, the third in the magazine-sized fourth vo