Issue Description

To a very great extent, Love and 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 and 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 and Rockets” series of compact, affordable paperbacks, shows a very different side of Los Bros Hernandez.

Amor y Cohetes (2008)

Publisher

Fantagraphics

Volume Description

Love and Rockets trade paperback, Book 7.

Starting in 2007, Fantagraphics repackaged every story from Love and Rockets Volume 1, organized by creator and collected in chronological order, in a series of affordable, compact paperback volumes:

The Jaime Stories

Book 1: Maggie the Mechanic: The first of three volumes collecting the stories of spunky Maggie, her brash best friend and sometimes lover Hopey, and their friends.Book 2: The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.: Centered on one of Jaime's peaks, "The Death of Speedy," this is the second comprehensive Maggie & Hopey collection.Book 3: Perla la Loca: The third comprehensive Maggie & Hopey collection, featuring "Wigwam Bam," a marriage, and much more.

The Gilbert Stories

Book 4: Heartbreak Soup: Collecting the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of "Palomar"Book 5: Human Diastrophism: The second half of the Palomar saga, in which the town's idyll is broken by a serial killer, the modern world's intrusions, and a shocking death.Book 6: Beyond Palomar: Collecting two groundbreaking works: "Poison River" and "Love and Rockets X," continuing to chronicle the adventures of Luba and her family.

And One More for the Road

Book 7: Amor y Cohetes: All of the non-"Locas," non-"Palomar" stories from Love and Rockets volume 1, collected in one spectacularly diverse package.

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