false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171030576m/82871.jpg 82871 2 Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' <I>Love and Rockets</I> is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel. <P> Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. <I>Love and Rockets</I> has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez. 139084 12 1989 Love & Rockets, Book 7: Death of Speedy total:134|5:95|4:33|3:4|2:1|1:1| 134 622 156 9 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Jan 09 20:50:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:11:58 -0800 2009 5 5 0 false false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 08:47:20 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 09:17:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 12:22:36 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 12:23:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sun Feb 10 19:31:44 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 19:32:51 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Sep 29 13:58:09 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 13:58:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 10:30:28 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 10:31:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu May 08 17:56:31 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 18:09:03 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 02 20:46:07 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 15:52:57 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 28 12:26:23 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 12:26:44 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Nov 20 17:43:51 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 17:43:51 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 10:15:27 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:15:27 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Nov 05 21:04:47 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 21:04:47 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 23:01:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 23:01:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 14:59:52 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:59:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 29 19:36:39 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:36:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 10:39:32 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:39:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 02 15:07:32 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:07:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Sep 26 18:32:21 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 18:32:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1987 Sat Sep 26 10:39:47 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 12:08:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 11:07:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:07:36 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=82871