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Love & Rockets Vol.14: Luba Conquers the World

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The storyline is very complex and involving; one forgets that he or she is reading a comic book as opposed to a novel. The Hernandez books have always been amazing, the characters seem very real, and you can feel their emotion as you read the book.

This beautiful masterpiece of modern art shows the depth of Gilbert's work showing that his work is just as good as Jaime's maybe even then some... his drawing style is very similar to that of Robert Crumb's, and the book is packed with volumptious women such as the Godfather-like Luba, who(once you read the book) you get to see metamorphisize into the mayor of Palomar, and Palomar is basically what most of the book is about.

Even though you see some very unappealing characters, you right away start to sympothize, as if they were members of your family. Such as when Luba gains weight(which later in the book she loses). And there's plenty of things to support re-readability, such as small captions at the bottom of pages and under panels telling you how to correctly pronounce some of the mexican names and what-not. A definate buy.