Amor Y Cohetes (The Complete Love and Rockets Library)

Amor Y Cohetes (The Complete Love and Rockets Library)

<B>The <I>Love & Rockets</I> library continues with this special volume.</B><BR><BR>To a very great extent, <I>Love & Rockets</I> is synonymous with Hoppers' Maggie & Hopey and Palomar's Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin... but there was always more to <I>L&R</I> than that. <I>Amor y Cohetes</I> 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 <I>Love and Rockets</I> series—a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists' place in the history of comics.<BR><BR>The book leads off with Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of <I>Love & Rockets</I>, featuring a very different Luba and a much looser, <I>Heavy Metal</I> and Marvel Comics-inspired way of storytelling.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><I>Amor y Cohetes</I>, the seventh (and concluding, for now) volume in the new "Complete <I>Love & Rockets</I>" series of compact, affordable paperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez.