How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez's stunning two-part masterpiece "The Love Bunglers" from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie...

How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez's stunning two-part masterpiece "The Love Bunglers" from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray's relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggie's (and her family's) past? If you're Jaime, you deftly move sideways and switch focus to other characters, specifically Ray's ex, the rambunctious "Frogmouth." In "Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners," Muneca, the Frogmouth's half-sister, comes to visit for a weekend and sees what kind of life the Frog Princess is living with Reno and Borneo -- as well as a brand new character or two. On the other-brother side, Gilbert Hernandez celebrates the 30th anniversary by bringing one of his current characters ("Killer," granddaughter to the legendary Luba) into the Palomar milieu in a story that showcases a fictionalized "movie" Palomar (starring Fritz as a combination of Luba and Tonantzín), even as it brings back a number of the classic Palomar characters for real. This will be a much-anticipated homecoming for fans of the "classic" Love and Rockets of the 1980s. Thirty years in, Love and Rockets continues to surprise and delight.

Author: Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 10/10/2012
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.28h x 7.52w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781606995860
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2012

About the Author
Hernandez, Gilbert: - Gilbert Hernandez is considered one of our greatest living cartoonists. He co-created the iconic series Love and Rockets, which has been ongoing since 1982, and authored numerous other comics and graphic novels, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. Raised in Oxnard, CA, Hernandez lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.Hernandez, Jaime: - Jaime Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning (Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award-winner; L.A. Times Book Prize) cartoonist and a lifelong Los Angelean.

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