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dantastic's review
4.0
The saga of Luba, her sisters, and all the people caught in their orbit continues...
Fantagraphics February rolls on, as does my quest to read all of Love and Rockets. Ofelia collects stories from Lub #3-9, Luba Comics and Stories #2-5, and Measles #3.
Gilbert's art continues wowing me in this volume but the evolving relationships of everyone involved is the big attraction. Ofelia, the title character and Luba's put upon aunt, is writing a book and thinking about getting the hell away from Luba. Fritzi, Luba's sister, and her relationships take center stage for a big part of the book. Petra, Luba's other sister, gets something going with Hector. Pipa is in love with Fritzi but boning a couple dudes. Sergio is in love with Guadalupe but boning other chicks. I guess everyone is boning everyone except the person they should be boning now that I think about it.
I miss the old Palomar gang but Luba's family in America is a train wreck of sex and lies. The ending of this one makes me glad I have the next one waiting in the wings. I have a feeling all the shit is going to hit all the fans from page 1.
Four out of five stars.
Fantagraphics February rolls on, as does my quest to read all of Love and Rockets. Ofelia collects stories from Lub #3-9, Luba Comics and Stories #2-5, and Measles #3.
Gilbert's art continues wowing me in this volume but the evolving relationships of everyone involved is the big attraction. Ofelia, the title character and Luba's put upon aunt, is writing a book and thinking about getting the hell away from Luba. Fritzi, Luba's sister, and her relationships take center stage for a big part of the book. Petra, Luba's other sister, gets something going with Hector. Pipa is in love with Fritzi but boning a couple dudes. Sergio is in love with Guadalupe but boning other chicks. I guess everyone is boning everyone except the person they should be boning now that I think about it.
I miss the old Palomar gang but Luba's family in America is a train wreck of sex and lies. The ending of this one makes me glad I have the next one waiting in the wings. I have a feeling all the shit is going to hit all the fans from page 1.
Four out of five stars.
octavia_cade's review
fast-paced
3.0
It's a damn good thing that the opening pages of this comic collection have the names and relationships for all these people, because the cast is enormous and I kept having to flick back and forth to see who was linked to who, either as family or romantic interest. In fairness, it's partly my own fault for not starting with the beginning volume of this series - when I saw it at the library, I mistakenly thought that this was the first part of the "Palomar" section of Love and Rockets, but it isn't. It still works as a standalone, I think, but I might have had a better sense of the characters if I'd read everything in its proper order. Oh well, this is due back tomorrow, so I'll pick up the first volume then.
I vacillated between two and three stars, to be honest. The characters are... I don't want to say they're hard to relate to, exactly, but they're all so melodramatic that they're a little bit exhausting. The more I read, though, the more I got sucked in. This is soap opera on a gigantic scale, and trying to take it seriously does a reader no favours. It's best just to lie back and let the general insanity wash over you.
I vacillated between two and three stars, to be honest. The characters are... I don't want to say they're hard to relate to, exactly, but they're all so melodramatic that they're a little bit exhausting. The more I read, though, the more I got sucked in. This is soap opera on a gigantic scale, and trying to take it seriously does a reader no favours. It's best just to lie back and let the general insanity wash over you.
shea_proulx's review
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Drug use, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, and Murder
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