Love & Rockets co-creator Gilbert Hernandez makes a rare foray into all-ages work with this super-affordable little hardcover. The Adventures of Venus conters on Luba's niece and collects all of Hernandez" stories from the kids anthology Measles (1999-2000) plus adds a brand new story done just for this book.
First there were three: Octavia, Charlotte, and Rosalyn, a trio of badass hit-women who picked up the slack when the going got too real for other so-called top-level assassins. But things happened. Octavia hung up her semi-automatic for a semi-lucrative kidnapping insurance scam. Charlotte chose expensive Chardonnay, love, marriage and, until recently, a baby carriage. And Rosalyn? There's a lot of conspiracies, but according to the federal government, she's simply M.I.A. When a kidnapping hits too close to home, Octavia is forced out of retirement and back into the bounty-hunting business. Down two partners, she recruits her son Dominic and his boyfriend Taylor to aid and abet her in a semester of murder-based work study, where she'll teach them everything she knows (if she can get them to put down the video games, stop making out, and actually focus on the mission already).
This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio's Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run in comic book single issues. Children of Palomar and Other Tales(the fifteenth volume in our Complete Love and Rockets Library omnibuses and the eighth Gilbert volume) begins with "Me for the Unknown," uncollected since its original 20012004 run in Love and Rockets Vol. II comic books. Written by Mario Hernandez and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, it traces the Rabelaisian journey of Tagg Lillard. A U.S. citizen with a seemingly perfect life working in Latin America, he escapes a death trap clutching important papers, and an imperious CEO and his manservant pursue him through a land plagued by colonialist/corporate greed. Also collected: one of their joints from 2008, "Chiro el Indio." In The Children of Palomar suite of short stories (20062007, collected in 2013), there are many mysterious visitors, an apparition that haunts childless women, and readers learn how Chelo lost her eye. And in Julio's Day, which originally ran from 20012008 and was collected in 2013, a man's life-threaded with war, loss, illness, and forbidden love-spans a century. Children of Palomar and Other Tales: A Love and Rockets Book is part of the Love and Rockets series.
A bizarre, sexy look into the future from comics legends Mario & Gilbert Hernandez! When gossip blogger Sergio Bauntin investigates the illusive robot celebrity CTZ-RX-1, he provokes the city's shady power players, who don't want the story to get out! It's a surreal sci-fi adventure as only Los Bros. Hernandez can do it! This handsome hardcover collection also features new cover art by Gilbert, an extensive sketchbook section with behind-the-scenes material from Mario, and a special pin-up from third Hernandez brother Jaime (Locas, The Education of Hopey Glass)! Collects Citizen Rex #1#6. One of Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2010, selected by guest editor Neil Gaiman! Gilbert Hernandez named 2009 USA Rasmuson Fellow for literature!
Comics Dementia collects buried treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy by Gilbert Hernandez. Most of these stories haven't been available since the 1990s. Saints, sinners, and the Candidelike Roy mingle in jungles, cocktail lounges, living rooms and outer space. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope-but the party really starts when the Alfred E. Neuman of the Love and Rockets multi-verse, Errata Stigmata, makes her entrance.
Garden of Flesh is a sexually explicit retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, but one that blurs the lines between erotica and pornography, as only Gilbert Hernandez can. Leave it to Hernandez to explore the story of original Sin from a perspective you didn't get in Sunday school. As an added bonus, longtime Love and Rockets fans will recognize some beloved characters/actors portraying key players.
LOVE AND ROCKETS COCREATOR GILBERT HERNANDEZ! Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez delivers a genre mash-up unlike any other! When Mike Chang wakes up with nothing but a lipstick smudge, someone else's suit, and amnesia, he's thrown into a world of criminal gangs, crime fighters, skin swappers, and a one-eyed girl with bizarre powers! Collects Grip #1-#5. • Expanded with new story pages! • Never before collected!
This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark Human Diastrophism, named one of the greatest comic book stories of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics. Human Diastrophism is the only full graphic novel length Palomar story ever created by Gilbert. Also included are all the post-Diastrophism stories, in which Sheriff Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the Palomar diaspora that ends this dense, enthralling book.
Originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now, Julio's Day is Gilbert Hernandez's latest graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one life through a series of enthralling vignettes. While Julio's Day has some elements in common with Hernandez's Palomar cycle, this is very much a standalone story that will help cement his position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists of our time. [(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez]
This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert's modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.
Collects two groundbreaking works: Poison River traces the backstory of Luba, from child to teenage mob bride to her escape to Palomar; Love and Rockets X is a wide-ranging, Altman-esque story set in early-1990s L.A.
The Love and Rockets Companion contains interviews with Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez, foldout family trees for both Gilbert's Palomar and Jaime's Locas storylines, unpublished art, a character glossary, timelines and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more. A must-have for old fans and for those new to the series, it will make jumping in seem less daunting. [(W) Marc Sobel, Kristy Valenti (A) Gilbert Hernandez & Various (CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernand]
The multi-award winning Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade. Los Bros Hernandez' latest installment of this acclaimed graphic novel series, features both old friends (Fritz, Killer) and new faces (Tonta), and some genuine surprises as the Luba generational saga deepens. [(W) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez (A) Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez]
In this 30th Anniversary Issue, Jaime shifts focus onto "Frogmouth" and her half sister Tonta whilst introducing some new characters. Gilbert takes one of his current characters into the Palomar milieu and brings back a number of the classic Palomar characters. This will be a much-anticipated homecoming for fans of the "classic" Love and Rockets of the 1980s. Thirty years in, Love and Rockets continues to surprise and delight. [(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez]
Gilbert Hernandez's sprawling family saga moves to the United States, where Luba and her sisters Petra and Fritz, find their families' and friends' lives becoming more and more intertwined. As the three sisters reminisce, the next generation steps into spotlight: Luba's adult daughter Doralís and Petra's little girl, Venus.
Marble Season is the all-new semiautobiographical novel by the contemporary master cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, the co-creator of the groundbreaking Love and Rockets comic book series. His first book with Drawn & Quarterly, and one of the most highly anticipated books of 2013, Marble Season features Huey, his family, and their neighbors, who tell the untold stories from the youth of the American comics legend and his cartooning brothers and fellow icons Jaime and Mario, and their large family that grew up in 60s suburban California. Marble Season subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative play children engage in such as shooting marbles, backyard plays, and treasure hunts change as the children encounter name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of other kids. An all-ages story, Marble Season explores the redemptive and timeless power of reading and role play in childhood. [(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez]
The first installment of a new standalone 2-part storyline that will be strangely familiar to longtime Love & Rockets fans. Maria M. is actually the B-movie film adaptation of the life story of Luba's mother Maria, as previously seen in the classic graphic novel Poison River. Maria M.works perfectly as the kind of violent, sexy pulp tale that Gilbert Hernandez has proven so adept at these past several years. [(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez]
This crime thriller tells the story of Maria M., whose life south of the border is a tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. She later marries a drug kingpin, whose son learns Maria's secret, leading to a violent gangland bloodbath. Maria M. collects 2013's Maria M. Book One and the never-before-published Book Two for the first time. Longtime Love & Rockets readers will recognize a metatwist: Maria M. doubles as a biopic of the mother of Hernandez's most beloved character: Luba from Love and Rockets!
The fifth volume of Gilbert Hernandez's complete Love and Rockets material! In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California. When Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories and pain resurface. Meanwhile, Luba's children show that a talent for trouble may be hereditary. These vividly drawn characters live, love, age, fight-and die-in this sweeping, multigenerational saga.
Beginning a two-issue stand alone arc: "Little Ones." Two hungry children, on the run for unspecified reasons, enter a small U.S. town near the Mexican border, where gossip over a rumored border wall construction fuels racial tensions and intensifies the kids' fears of getting caught.
High Soft Lisp, and more, the children are growing up and lovers have come and gone. Luba, Petra, and Fritz have all settled in Los Angeles are moving on to the next phases of their lives and careers. Venus shoots a backyard superhero movie, Fritz becomes a B movie actress, and children's TV show host Doralis has the grandest of finales.
