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at the University Bookman:<\/p>\n

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Eve Tushnet<\/h3>\n

I hope to spend this summer soaking up the sun with Los Bros. Hernandez\u2019s epic comic book series \u201cLove and Rockets.\u201d The comics follow a group of knockabout, hard-living characters from punk LA (Jaime Hernandez\u2019s \u201cHoppers 13\u201d stories) and a slightly surreal South American village (Gilbert Hernandez\u2019s \u201cPalomar\u201d). These are genre-crossing tales of love, loss, slowly encroaching adulthood, and sci-fi adventure; there are ghosts and witches, betrayal and camaraderie, superheroes, and luchadoras. Jaime\u2019s art becomes increasingly sharp-edged and gorgeous as the series progresses, while Gilbert\u2019s blotchier, curvier art makes the boundary between the natural and supernatural worlds seem oozy and permeable. There\u2019s noir (Wigwam Bam<\/a><\/em>), political tragedy (Poison River<\/em><\/a>), horror (Flies on the Ceiling<\/a><\/em>), community portrait (Ghosts of Hoppers<\/a><\/em>); there\u2019s an atheist stigmatic, a prison colony, a teen space explorer, Frida Kahlo, and the Devil himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a>; I was esp intrigued by the entries from Thomas Bertonneau on Cold War Scandinavian literature, and Daniel McCarthy on Waugh and war.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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