Music for Mechanics (Complete Love and Rockets, Book1) Vol. 1
by Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez
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Read in July, 2008
Love and Rockets is the comics series closest to my heart. What is truly wonderful about L&R is that it is a comic in the old fashioned form. An ongoing storyline about a groups of characters that goes on for years and years. It isn't as enclosed as a graphic novel and was never intended to be. This are human stories, unfolding at the pace of life.
Which is why I prefer this 15 volumes of trade paperbacks over the current collected editions. First of all, the size is correct. The ne...more
Which is why I prefer this 15 volumes of trade paperbacks over the current collected editions. First of all, the size is correct. The ne...more
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Read in May, 1991
recommends it for:
indie comics fans, Dan DeCarlo fans, anyone who loves amazing art and great storytelling
This is graphic novel is the whole reason I set foot into a comic book store. My friend John lent me his entire L&R collection and I read through them in a week or so. I then had to run out and buy my own copies & each new issue thereafter. My instant love of Jaime Hernandez's art made complete sense after I read an interview and found that his main influence was Dan DeCarlo (Archie comics). As a child/teenager, Archie was my favourite thing to read. Anyway, I don't think the Hernan...more
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Read in January, 1992
I think the Love & Rockets series is one of the best things ever written, in comics or any other form. This book collects the earliest issues, when the storyline was at its most chaotic and weird; eventually Jaime and Gilbert settled into steadier storytelling and more focus on realism, but even a couple decades down the line, these first surreal issues still hold up as essential history of the characters we came to know and love. If you haven't read L&R before, this is where to start,...more
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I was all "HEY I SHOULD PROBABLY BECOME FAMILIAR WITH LOVE AND ROCKETS" and this book was all "YOU HAVE A DISTINCT FEELING THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING AND WORTH YOUR TIME, BUT HERE IS A NOT TOTALLY AWESOME BUT STILL GOOD INTRODUCTION TO THESE STORIES." I am excited to read more, but saddened because I do not have infinite gift certificates with which to buy the other volumes.
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This book is an interesting one - it seems so different in tone from Los Bros's later works, but the artwork is so solid, and a lot of what makes them great is visible - Jaime's punk rock aesthetic and keen character building, Beto's zany sci-fi weirdness and great world building. It's a little depressing seeing how the latter brother has deteriorated in art and writing skill, though.
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Read in March, 2006
This collection was more than a little hit-or-miss for me, but since a lot of people have recommended Love & Rockets to me, I'm going to give the next few volumes a try. I did really love the artwork, but the lack of any real overarching plotline left me a little befuddled.
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if you ever want to get me a material object for a gift. give me love and rockets.
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Read in January, 2005
again,more good stuff from Los Bros.
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