Love & Rockets Library Vol 2: Heartbreak Soup TP

This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez’s acclaimed magical-realist tales of “Palomar,” the small Central American town, beginning with the groundbreaking “Sopa de Gran Pena” (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children, plus the imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through such modern-day classics as “Ecce Homo,” “Act of Contrition,” “Duck Feet,” and the great love story “For the Love of Carmen.”

“I’ve never seen anything else in comics — I guess there might be something in literature — but in comics there’s never been anybody that’s touched what the Hernandez brothers have.” — Robert Crumb

“I don’t really understand why the material of Love and Rockets isn’t widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of fiction of the last 35 years. Because it is.” — Neil Gaiman

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