On sale date: January 12, 2027
Collects the first six issues of the fourth, and current, volume of the Love and Rockets comic book series (2016–2018) and features the continuing adventures of Maggie, Ray, Hopey, Luba, and Fritz, as well as new adventures starring twins Rosy and Baby, Tonta, Judy Fair, Frank Lopez, and—Princess Anima?!
Love and Rockets Vol. IV Book One collects the first six issues of the new, magazine-sized comic book just as they are—with Jaime’s and Gilbert’s storylines as intertwined segments. Published 2016–2018, this is the continuation of the 40+ year series fans have been clamoring for! While portions have appeared as standalone graphic novels, much of this material has yet to be reprinted. In this book, when a Hoppers punk show reunion throws Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas/Locos gang back together, glimpses of their past helps them move into their future. Plus: in further installments of Jaime’s SF serial, Lumina and Isla search their galaxy for the See Stone, aided by the powerful and mysterious Princess Anima. Meanwhile, Gilbert’s storyline concerns the break-up of Fritz’s and Pipo’s marriage—just as Fritz reconnects with her teen twin daughters, Baby and Rosy, and grapples with aging as an artist. And, in one of the most moving chapters in the Palomar saga, Luba and her grown children reconnect at Guadalupe’s wedding. Here comes the groom … Steve?!
Love and Rockets Vol. IV Book One is part of the Love and Rockets series.
Praise
"The exhilarating latest entry in [Jaime] Hernandez’s?sprawling 'Locas' saga meditates on old regrets and new beginnings. It’s not to be missed." — Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"The cartoonist Jaime Hernandez has been drawing the charming, hapless Maggie Chascarillo in “Love and Rockets” since 1982. Hernandez is regularly praised as one of the greatest living cartoonists, and Maggie is his primary creation and alter ego." — The New York Times
"[Gilbert] Hernandez’s style is entirely his own: brutally telegraphic (he can capture an entire emotionally complex scene in a single panel, then imply even more by abruptly cutting to the middle of a later scene), loaded with insight about the bumpy terrain of familial and sexual relationships, swinging wildly in tone between suffocating darkness and sunny charm." — Publishers Weekly
Specs
- Pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback/Softback
- Color
- Black-and-white
- Dimensions
- 8.375" × 10.75"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875004193