LOVE
& ROCKETS
Page One
The Complete Love &
Rockets, Volumes 1-4
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Page Two
The Complete Love &
Rockets, Volumes 5-8
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Page Three
The Complete Love &
Rockets, Volumes 9-12
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Page Four
The Complete Love &
Rockets, Volumes 12-15 + Girl Crazy
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Cast Page
The Cast of
Love & Rockets
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MUSIC
FOR MECHANICS
Volume
I |
| by Los Bros Hernandez |
Paperback: 141 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 093019313X |
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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 in 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. |
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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. |
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...post-post-modern, decadent
and absurd soap operas...
...like Betty and Veronica
meets Almodovar meets Mad Max these future and past tales from Los Bros
Hernandez, Jaime and Gilberto, are both highly entertaining and highly
original. Some stories are set in barrios, some in futuristic deserts where
denizens ride jet rockets like horses, some in a too realistic village
where dreams and reality mesh and couples and not couples mesh. If you're
not paying attention, you'll miss something important to the story line.
This is how 'Love and Rockets' series first began, and with the various
plot twists and story lines, this Los Bros' concept would make a good movie
or even TV show...wordless stories of mythic and modern women warriors
of Mexican and Spanish descent come right between chapters of a story line
involving, for instance, whether Luba's dignity would stay intact after
suffering emotional assault from a sister, a lover, the system, the poverty...some
of the stories are ludicrous and humourous and others are graphic and real.
All of them are full of humanity and bite. The art is Jaime and Gilberto
at their Vargas-inspired best...they are equally great artists. You will
love this! |
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CHELO'S
BURDEN
Volume
II |
| by Los Bros Hernandez |
Paperback
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 0930193253 |
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Love and Rockets Vol. 2: "Chelo's Burden"
by Gilbert, Jaime, & Mario Hernandez
Availability: Usually ships within
24 hours.
Hardcover
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 0930193261 |
$35.00
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LAS
MUJERES PERDIDAS
Volume III |
| by Los Bros Hernandez |
Paperback: 160 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 0930193318 |
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$19.95
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