Amor Y Cohetes

TheLove & Rocketslibrary continues with this special volume. To a very great extent,Love & Rocketsis synonymous with Hoppers' Maggie & Hopey and Palomar's Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin... but there was always more toL&Rthan that.Amor y Cohetesfinally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issueLove and Rocketsseries--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 ofLove & Rockets, featuring a very different Luba and a much looser,Heavy Metaland 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 "CompleteLove & Rockets" series of compact, affordable paperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez.Hernandez, Jaime is the author of 'Amor Y Cohetes' with ISBN 9781560979265 and ISBN 1560979267.