Beyond Palomar Hernandez Gilbert Paperback
Beyond Palomar Hernandez Gilbert Paperback For the first half decade of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez focused on fleshing out his small Central American hamlet of Palomar. Beyond Palomar…
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Beyond Palomar Hernandez Gilbert Paperback
For the first half decade of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez focused on fleshing out his small Central American hamlet of Palomar. Beyond Palomar collects these two groundbreaking works, together for the first time.Poison River is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one of Hernandez's masterpieces. But eventually this became too restrictive for the kinds of stories he wanted to tell, and he created, in quick succession, two major standalone graphic novels.
This story introduces a number of characters and themes that occupied later issues of Love and Rockets (including Luba's mother Maria and her sinister guardian angel Gorgo), and is a riveting It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrival in Palomar.