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Love & Rockets Vol.14: Luba Conquers the World (Love & Rockets (Paperback))

2 reviews
Gilbert Hernandez, 1996

Excellent for the Graphic Novel Crowd
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.

Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets)

12 reviews
Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 2003

A Visit to Palomar
I've loved the Palomar stories ever since a friend handed me "Heartbreak Soup" (an earlier compilation of a few of the stories). The characters are wonderfully real, the art is expressive, and the strange, strange stories are always entertaining. What a treat to have all of the Palomar stories in one (huge) volume! I totally agree with the reviewer who said that now Jaime Hernandez should follow ...

Fear of Comics

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 2000

Awesome writing, awesome art!
Gilbert Hernandez's "Fear of Comics" is a wonderful anthology of comic shorts that serves as an excellent showcase of his first-rate writing and dramatic sensibilities. Ranging in tone from zany to macabre to absurdist each of the dozen or so stories (along with another dozen or so comic-strips) are narrative treats unto themselves. From the paranoia of the sci-fi tale, "Return of the Tzik," to ...

Love and Rockets, Book 4: Tears from Heaven (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

1 review
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1987

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

Love and Rockets, Book 9: Flies on the Ceiling (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

1 review
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1997

Maggie and Hopey together again
This probably isn't the best place to start reading Love and Rockets, since it directly follows the events of Death of Speedy but otherwise, there's a lot to like in Flies on the Ceiling. A lot of details are filled in about many of the characters' lives. Flies on the Ceiling includes an account of Izzy's time in Mexico, which I thought was really well done. And also a brief "origin story" of ...

Love & Rockets Book 8 S/C (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

4 reviews
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1996

Another winner from Gilbert; maybe the best HB Soup story
Gilbert Hernandez outdid himself with every new installment of "Heartbreak Soup". As he took his characters through each realistic and dramatic experience, they grew more lifelike, and the reader gained something close to friendship with then. Every one of his stories of Palomar affected me in a way; this one probably had the greatest impact. The book begins with a few typical, cute Palomar ...

Las Mujeres Perdidas / a love and rockets collection

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez, Jamie Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1999

Get This Book
Los Bros. Hernandez are beyond description; I wish that the words brilliant, dazzling, ingenious, eminent, extraordinary, remarkable, and phenomenal, were fresh off the wordsmith's tongs, but as it is, they're simply too tarnished to gleam brightly enough for Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Through Love and Rockets the Bros. have done for the graphic novel what Shakespeare did for the sonnet or ...

Grip: The Strange World Of Men #4 (4 of 5)

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

DC Comics, 2002

Where's The Book?
It sure would be nice if there was a Trade Paper Back edition of this great, short-lived series. I would definitely buy it if it was out and available!

Hernandez Satyricon (Complete Love and Rockets, Book 15) Vol. 15

2 reviews
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1997

best book ever
this book is great if you need to make a rocket it's great

Master Weaver from Ghana

3 reviews
Gilbert Ahiagble, Louise Meyer

Open Hand Pub., 1998

Preservation of African Traditions
This book describes the daily life of a family of weavers of Kente cloth in Ghana. Every page has color photos of African homes, markets, people, and cloth patterns. Ideal for children who enjoy colorful pictures of other countries and for adults wishing to learn more about the art of Kente strip weaving. Includes lists of resources (books and websites)for both kids and adults. I particularly ...

Wigwam Bam (Complete Love and Rockets Book 11) Vol. 11

4 reviews
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 2002

Wigwam Bam, probably the best Love and Rockets Book ever
Wigwam Bam has to be Jaime Hernandez' most compelling comic book ever. It mainly focus on Hopey and the residents of Hoppers, as Maggie (Hopey's girlfriend) leaves Hopey after a snooty party. From then on Maggie doesn't turn up again. In wigwam Bam, we find out more about Hopey and that she actually does love Maggie and has a heart. We also get to delve deeper into Isobel's twisted psyche as ...

Love and Rockets Sketchbook Vol. 1

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1989

Los Bros hernandez do their thing, and I drool
A cross section of the artwork of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, The content of Love and Rockets sketchbook vol.1 ranges from experimental to more polished commercial work. Images of popular characters in early incarnations (Penny century circa 1979 as "Blondee") as well as beautiful Id revealing sketches make this required reading for Love and Rockets fans. The sketchbook doesn't feel like a ...

Heartbreak Soup

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Titan Books Ltd, 1987

A Marquez in Comic Form
A surrealist, sometimes non-linear, story of generations of families in one small, Mexican town. I would say that it felt like I was reading something akin to Gabrieal Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in comic form. I loved it.

Luba: Three Daughters (Complete Love and Rockets, Volume 23)

2 reviews
Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 2006

Great Stuff! Captures the beauty and shock of human life!
I love all of the Hernandez brothers' material, and this is top quality stuff, drawn from the world of Palomar. I've been into this beautiful universe Los BROS have created for 20 years now, and I'm still drawn back to it, whereas X-Men and Fantastic Four have revealed themselves as mere puerilities. If your into mature, original, fiction, you should also check out "The Shattering Light of ...

Duck Feet

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Titan Books Ltd, 1988

Duck Feet
From the playful antics of the town children (oddly not at all realistically drawn (perhaps an allusion to the authors' 'Dennis the Menace' inspiration? ) - not my favorite element of the stories - although fun enough) to the ominous "toc toc toc" of the traveling witch on the mysterious object she carries, there were enough gorgeous graphics and plot turns to keep me reading straight through ...

Luba in America

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 2002

Great fatasy involving family, friends, lovers and family
I only read a few of the books in the Love and Rockets series but enjoyed them tremendously. These books expanded my mind to the unique narratives comics can bring. This book is full of engaging characters you can care about. "Luba in America" is the latest adventures of Luba, a matriarch and a former mayor Palomar, a small town in Latin America. In this book, her family moved to United ...

Girl Crazy

2 reviews
Gilbert Hernandez

Dark Horse, 1997

A tasty dish from one of comics' brightest lights
If you were partially responsible for one of the great modern comics, what do you do when it ends? Gilbert Hernandez has answered that question in a variety of interesting ways, from his adult erotica "Birdland" to all-ages fun stuff like DC's "Yeah!" (with Peter Bagge) and Dark Horse's "Girl Crazy," collected in this volume. At first glance, "Girl Crazy" seems below Hernandez's gifts -- a ...

Music for Mechanics (Complete Love and Rockets Series No. 1) Vol.1

6 reviews
Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books, 1985

Brilliant
Jaime and Gilbert drew and wrote their hearts out from the beginning of this series and onward. The characters will draw you in, befriend you, make fun of you, and keep you wanting more. THis series is still a rarity amongst "alternative" comics, in its smartly told and...expertly drawn tales. Much of what passes for alternative in either comics or music is either pure rubbish or promising ideas ...

Birdland

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Eros Comix, 1990

Over the top erotica from Love & Rockets co-creator.
Gilbert Hernandez and his brother Jaime have been publishing the comic Love & Rockets for years, Gilbert's work occasionally dabbles in erotica but with this effort he gets to wallow in it. This graphic novel centers around a lisping psychiatrist and her covetous sister (characters from Love & Rockets) as well as a nymph-like stripper. The sex is completely over the top, in the end involving ...

The return of Mr. X

1 review
Gilbert Hernandez

Warner Books, 1987

Trouble in Radiant City.
In the world of tommorow, a man tries to stop a monster of his own creation. His monster is a city whose very structure can drive a person to madness. In addition, the city holds secrets that can enable a wilier individual to control it's inhabitants. Those who know him are either dead, or unwilling to betray him. He remains a mystery. This was the first graphic novel I had read. Although ...

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