Comic books in 'Love and Rockets Graphic Novels and Collections'

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Love and Rockets: Book 8 - 1st printing. Collects Love and Rockets (1982-1996 1st Series) #21-26. By Los Bros Hernandez. The most explosive Heartbreak Soup story ever, 'Blood of Palomar.' In this saga, a serial killer stalks the streets of Palomar. Gruesome and senseless as his depredations are, they are dwarfed by the resulting social and psychological collapse suffered by the inhabitants of the tiny Central American village. Featuring all the Heartbreak Soup players - Heraclio, Luba, Tonantzin, Carmen, Pipo. 'Blood of Palomar' is a true graphic novel - a masterpiece of comics that can hold its own next to any piece of literature. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $49.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandezs Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010s High Soft Lisp is torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories, Love and Rockets Vol. IV, and Psychodrama Illustrated—and expanded with 14 new pages! In Lovers and Haters, 50-year-old cult movie actress Fritz, in addition to her alcoholism and the ups and downs of her career, must also contend with a controlling lover, Danny; a jealous rival, Mila; a score of younger Fritz imitators, a sex cult; and mad scientists. Also in her orbit is her niece, Killer (sometimes literally, as seen in a Doctor Who-inspired TV show), a teen actress trying to launch a singing career while solving math problems. The specter of Fritzs mother, Maria — also a cult movie actress — haunts them all with her beauty from beyond the grave. With a sprawling cast, Lovers and Haters is about mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, complex and often toxic relationships, artists and exploiters, personas and obsessions. It reads like an X-rated The Substance mixed with Mommy Dearest and Performance, with an added dash of giallo. Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 10-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.