"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, affordablepaperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez."">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"">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, affordablepaperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez."
