Love & Rockets Vol. 4: Tears from Heaven (Paperback)

by Jaime Hernandez (Author), Gilbert Hernandez (Author), Los Bros. Hernandez (Author) "IT WAS LITTLE ERRATA'S WEALTHY UNCLE IRA AND AUNT ZEPHIE WHO TOOK HER IN AFTER THE TRAGEDY....." (more)

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Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.

Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (January 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093019344X
• ISBN-13: 978-0930193447
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #978,229 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Hernandez Book of Genius, February 16, 2004

By	Charles Greenfeld (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This book is excellent (I just had to write this to make the rating go up so sorry for the bad review...).