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dantastic's review
3.0
This is a collection of Love and Rockets stories from Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez that don't fit into Locas or the Palomar stories. The art is great in the way that all Hernandez brothers' art is great. The stories were hit or miss for me, though. The Rocky Rhodes story and the Adrian Adonis story were my favorites. It's not bad by any means but it's not easy to get invested in one off stories.
With this, I am finished with Fantagraphics' Love and Rockets library until they put out another volume.
With this, I am finished with Fantagraphics' Love and Rockets library until they put out another volume.
matt4hire's review
4.0
There are some fine stories here, especially all of the Retro Rocky stories and the "Somewhere in California..." stories. Unfortunately, the presentation makes everything suffer; the stories are organized by chronology, which means that you'll have Jaime followed by Beto followed by Mario, and they all have such different styles that clash, rather than complement. But still, really good stuff in this volume.
matthewn's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
4.0
Mostly lighthearted reading featuring stand-alone, non-Locas, non-Palomar, stories by the Hernandez Brothers. Generally fun and refreshing.
stopsatgreen's review against another edition
2.0
A collection of shorts, mostly sci-fi themed, from Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez. I have to admit that much of this left me cold - Gilbert's long early piece, Bem, was almost incoherent - and so I ended up skipping a lot of it. Jaime's art is always a pleasure, so that gives this book a star on its own, but overall I'd say this is for completists only, and not recommended as an introduction to L&R.
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