#30. Luba: The Book of Ofelia (Vol. 2 in the Luba trilogy; Vol. 21 in the Complete Love & Rockets)
2005 (material originally published 1998-2005), Fantagraphics Books

Warning: Long and obsessive plot details ahead!  This is a crazy long book -- 240 pages -- and incredibly dense, for a graphic novel.  Also, the storytelling modalities are highly ( Read more... )

#27. The Education of Hopey Glass (The Complete Love & Rockets, Vol. 24), Jaime Hernandez
2008 (material originally published 2005-'08), Fantagraphics Books

Okay, here I go about Love & Rockets again.  I feel a little dumb writing in so much detail about each new volume of the series I devour (being on a ten-year catch-up binge as I am), since I' ( Read more... )

#26. Luba in America (Vol. 1 of the Luba Trilogy), by Gilbert Hernandez
2001 (material originally published 1998-2000), Fantagraphics Books

Ha!  Man, I just never stop referencing myself, do I?  (Well, well: the internet wouldn't be as much fun if it weren't so easy to be intertextual.)

This is the third Love & Rockets book I'm reviewing, since I am ( Read more... )

Dicks and Deedees: Vol. 20 of The Complete Love & Rockets, Jaime Hernandez
2003, Fantagraphics Books (Material originally published 1999-2002)

Where can I even begin about Love & Rockets?

Love & Rockets is... this art form that we don't have very much of in the United States, and maybe not anywhere else.  And it's difficult to come up with analogies ( Read more... )