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Love & Rockets has been American fiction's best-kept secret. -- Rolling Stone
A high point in the comics form, conventional in idiom, but not comparable to any strips before it. -- Washington Post
If you've never heard of [Los Bros. Hernandez], you've been missing out on two hidden treasures of our impoverished culture. -- The Nation
In comics there's never been anybody that's touched what the Hernandez brothers have. -- Tom Spurgeon, author of Comics As Art
Jaime's Maggie and Gilbert's Luba are two of the great characters in contemporary American fiction. -- LA Weekly
The Hernandez Brothers are uncanny. No other man in or out of the field understands women the way they do. -- Trina Robbins, author of A Century of Women Cartoonists
A high point in the comics form, conventional in idiom, but not comparable to any strips before it. -- Washington Post
If you've never heard of [Los Bros. Hernandez], you've been missing out on two hidden treasures of our impoverished culture. -- The Nation
In comics there's never been anybody that's touched what the Hernandez brothers have. -- Tom Spurgeon, author of Comics As Art
Jaime's Maggie and Gilbert's Luba are two of the great characters in contemporary American fiction. -- LA Weekly
The Hernandez Brothers are uncanny. No other man in or out of the field understands women the way they do. -- Trina Robbins, author of A Century of Women Cartoonists
Product Description
The legendary Love and Rockets comic book series continues in a comprehensive series of new paperbacks.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is finally being released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order.
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. In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar—but his depredations, hideous as they are, only serve to exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town as the modern world begins to intrude. "Diastrophism" concludes with the death (the suicide, in fact) of one of Palomar's most beloved characters, and a postscript that provides one of the most hauntingly magical moments of the entire series as a rain of ashes drifts down upon Palomar.
Also included are all the post-"Diastrophism" stories, in which 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.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is finally being released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order.
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. In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar—but his depredations, hideous as they are, only serve to exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town as the modern world begins to intrude. "Diastrophism" concludes with the death (the suicide, in fact) of one of Palomar's most beloved characters, and a postscript that provides one of the most hauntingly magical moments of the entire series as a rain of ashes drifts down upon Palomar.
Also included are all the post-"Diastrophism" stories, in which 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.
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