I have just bought LUBA by Gilbert Hernandez.

But I do have a doubt.
In the first pages of the hardcover (where the name LUBA appears in grey and then in black) this name is moved to the right in both pages. i wanted to know if this is normal or is it a misprint.
Can anybody, please, help me?

thank you very much.
Raúl.

After reading the comments and thinking about it for some time, I’ve decided you’re right. Calling your piece “wrong-headed” was a real poor choice of words on my part, not to mention a tad rude. So I apologize for my own wrong-headedness. I’m going to take the offending word out of the post for posterity’s sake (as well as finally fix some of those typos).

As for the rest of your points, I dunno. I came away from your piece feeling like it really slanted heavily towards Jaime to Gilbert’s detriment, and I could see a reader walking away thinking that the brothers’ works are similar in style and content when they’re really not (at least not entirely). Plus, I know a lot of readers who have broken into L&R by reading Beto first and then Jaime, myself included. I felt like a more even-handed approach was called for. Iguess I’m just not really sure that Jaime is a better entry point, and if he is, then the Locas book isn’t the place to start.

Still, that doesn’t deserve such a kick in the teeth, so I apologize for that.

Anyway, thanks for at least linking to my abominably misguided piece.

Thanks!

I’d love to see Love and Rockets get collected/reprinted without splitting up the issues. Reprint the stories as they were originally published, side-by-side. Maybe I’m too much of a completist, but I’d love to be able to read the series and experience it the same way it was originally released (except in this case, it would be in trade-form instead of single-issue form, but I’m OK with that.)

-Corey

Great stuff!

– MrJM

As someone whose spent way too much time thinking about L&R, I’d still encourage people to check out the original issues (I know, I know…). For one thing, they’re usually pretty cheap online. Also, the issues contain all kinds of great extra stuff that’s not included in any of the books, like the color front and back covers, the controversial letters pages and even some essays by Gary Groth in the early issues.

Also, I think reading L&R in their original pamphlet format gives you a sense of the connections between the various stories (this is especially true in Gilbert’s stories, like L&R X and Poison River, where character moments in one story comment on the other). It’s also interesting to see how Jaime and Gilbert influenced each other, which is more apparent when reading them side by side.

Of course, it’s all personal preference. I’ve read these stories in both formats (I agree, I’m not a fan of the oversized hardcovers) and in both cases, the comics themselves are outstanding!

m sure the future HC collections will have stuff missing, but i was able to get all the current HC at a relatively cheap price. Including the last two at half off cover price (last day of comic-con) and was able to get my locas book signed by the writer himself. In reading these books. Only book i had to pay full price was Palomar :heart break soup since it is now out of print.

I feel the connections between the stories and family stories/drama’s which make the books that much more personal for me. Anybody who enjoys a good read should pick this up, and let it take you on a full spectrum of emotions. Keep the stories coming, i will love (keep) these books forever!

But I dig the big hardcovers as well. Art is better when it’s bigger. That’s just a thing.