Gilbert Hernández
Paperback | Pages: 280 pages Rating: 3.95 | 273 Users | 30 Reviews
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| Title | : | Amor y cohetes (Love and Rockets) |
| Author | : | Gilbert Hernández |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 280 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2008 by Fantagraphics Books (first published May 7th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Comix |
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The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume.To a very great extent, Love & Rockets is synonymous with Hoppers' Maggie & Hopey and Palomar's Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin... but there was always more to L&R than that. Amor y Cohetes finally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love and Rockets series—a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists' place in the history of comics.
The book leads off with Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, featuring a very different Luba and a much looser, Heavy Metal and Marvel Comics-inspired way of storytelling.
Other stories include Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot; stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida" and his shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book"; Mario's genre thrillers which take place "Somewhere in California"; Gilbert's brutally dystopian "Errata Stigmata" stories; the playful "Hernandez Satyricon," with Gilbert drawing Jaime's characters, and "War Paint," with Jaime trying out Palomar; Gilbert's light-hearted "Music for Monsters" starring Bang and Inez; and even a fantastical "non-continuity" Maggie and Hopey story "Easter Hunt" by Jaime that didn't fit into the other books.
Amor y Cohetes, the seventh (and concluding, for now) volume in the new "Complete Love & Rockets" series of compact, affordable paperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez.
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| Original Title: | Amor y Cohetes: A Love & Rockets Book (Love & Rockets) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Series: | Love and Rockets |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 273 Users | 30 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Amor y cohetes (Love and Rockets)
Fanta's repackaging of the Love & Rockets vol. 1 run is complete with this book. Fifteen trades reduced to seven, with this volume collecting all of the disparate short stories that are unrelated to Gilbert's Palomar cast or Jaime's Locas characters. A lot of the stories were done in the early days of the L&R comic, before each brother had found their central cast; a lot of the early stories are rough, in story and art. You can see that neither Jamie nor Gilbert had a handle on what theyHighlights: Jaime's Rocky and Fumble stories, Gibert's Errata Stigmata series, sci-fi tales BEM and Twitch City, and Frida Kahlo bio strip.
So I continue my trek of reading the entire back catalogue of these collected Love and Rockets stories. So far it has been a rollercoaster of the human condition. And I loved it!But... I dont know what just happened. This volume went totally off the rails. Its a collection of what I think are one-off scifi and beat comix style stories.Theyre great, but after so many volumes of ongoing story, I wasnt prepared at all to be shaken from Palomar and Hoppers. I want to give it higher - and I may if I
There are some fine stories here, especially all of the Retro Rocky stories and the "Somewhere in California..." stories. Unfortunately, the presentation makes everything suffer; the stories are organized by chronology, which means that you'll have Jaime followed by Beto followed by Mario, and they all have such different styles that clash, rather than complement. But still, really good stuff in this volume.
Collects outside-of-main-continuity stories from the first volume (1981-1996) of Love & Rockets. The earliest stuff here is extremely rough; it's mostly Gilbert and Mario doing pale imitations of trashy euro-comix and 70's Marvel. Once you get past that, there's a huge leap in quality. Jaime's Rocky & Fumble series is a sweet comic with a surprising gut-punch of an ending, Gilbert's autobio mini-comics ("My love Book") are some of the best things he's ever done, and even Mario's stories
Should be subtitled "Los Bros Hernandez B-sides."
Highly irritating. Suicidal.
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