Gomez

Born into the richly layered world of Gilbert Hernandez's modern-era storytelling, Gomez made their debut in Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 in 2013 — stepping into one of alternative comics' most celebrated and long-running universes. A Fantagraphics gem, this character moves through the same pages as Tonta, Pipo Jimenez, Lumina, Animus, and Kim, the kind of vivid ensemble that makes Hernandez's work feel like a living, breathing community. With appearances spread across Love and Rockets, Love and Rockets: New Stories, and the Tonta series, Gomez is a quietly consistent presence in a corner of comics that rewards devoted readers. If you're exploring the modern flowering of the Hernandez brothers' legacy, this is exactly the kind of character worth tracking down.