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Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007 Love and Rockets
is being released in chronological order. In 1982,
brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez created Love & Rockets,
a mixture of realism, science fiction, and meditations on
the human condition which became one of the most critically
acclaimed series at the time. Welcome to the mythical Central
American town of Palomar, and meet Luba, the town's larger-than-life
mayor. With tales weaving in and out of the town's entire
population, Heartbreak Soup is a complex tapestry of
Latin American life...
Heartbreak
Soup collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed
magical-realist tales of Palomar, the small Central American
town, beginning with the groundbreaking Sopa de Gran Pena
(which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children,
plus the imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through
such modern-day classics as Ecce Homo, Act of Contrition,
Duck Feet, and the great love story For the Love
of Carmen.
This
volume is a vast improvement on the first volume, Maggie
the Mechanic, by Jaime Hernandez. In
the third issue of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez
abruptly jettisoned his Marvel- and Heavy-Metal-influenced
sci-fi yarns to focus on the day-to-day tribulations of the
inhabitants of a tiny Central American hamlet more or less
untouched by time - Palomar. The resultant graphic novelette,
Sopa de Gran Pena, sent shock waves through the comics
field.
Heartbeat
Soup features not only the original Sopa story,
but the subsequent suite of tales that presented and defined
the ever-evolving cast of characters from Palomar. There is
a certain charm to Hernandez's work - even if some of the
art seem a little crude. The stories are a lot more satisfying
than those offered in Maggie the Mechanic, but still
a little on the drab side for most modern audience to actually
connect with.
Nick
Smithson
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