Love and Rockets: New Stories: New Stories #5

Gilbert Hernandez · Jaime Hernandez

Oct 2012 · Love and Rockets: New Stories Issue #5 · Fantagraphics Books

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Thirty four years later and once again my eyes are locked onto the graphic style of Love and Rockets. The characters I fell in love with long ago are as compelling as ever and I find my much older self engrossed in the lives of the characters that the Hernandez brothers create. This is really great stuff and I am so willing to be absorbed into this universe once again. Que viva Love and Rockets and the Hernandez brothers!