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nightchough's review against another edition
3.0
Lots of great background material - family photos, descriptions of Los Bros Hernandez's life pre-L&R.
Also very nice at showing Jaime's influences and explaining why L&R was so groundbreaking in the world of comics.
The author does an OK job summarizing 30 years of material in one book - but as a fan - I wanted the book to be twice as long as it was.
Also very nice at showing Jaime's influences and explaining why L&R was so groundbreaking in the world of comics.
The author does an OK job summarizing 30 years of material in one book - but as a fan - I wanted the book to be twice as long as it was.
elbarton312's review against another edition
5.0
Wonderful story of Los Hermanos Hernandez and the start of my favorite comic collection, Love & Rockets. Best read this summer!
chelseamartinez's review against another edition
4.0
This is a well-edited collection and narrative about Hernandez's work - a bit of biography and influences, and well chosen full-length stories from his decades of comics to argue that Love and Rockets is groundbreaking for comic storytelling in the 80's/90's. My entire SoCal childhood basically overlaps exactly with the original run of Love and Rockets - so while it seems weird that I wasn't reading them in as a kid since they were quasi-local, I would have had to have been a pretty hip 9-year-old to have been down with Maggie La Loca in her punk days. Scrounging the libraries of LA I've managed to keep up with the "New Stories" issues, but at this point in my strong fandom, it's probably time for me to spend my own money on reissues of the original Love and Rockets!
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