Lavalda Dane

Lavalda Dane stepped onto the page in 2000, born from the singular imagination of Gilbert Hernandez in Luba #5 — a Modern Age creation rooted in the rich, character-dense world that has made Fantagraphics' Love and Rockets one of comics' most celebrated ongoing sagas. She moves through a vivid ensemble that includes Jimmy Reyna, Rita Mankovich, Jenna Chong, and others, the kind of layered, interconnected cast that Hernandez has always excelled at weaving together. Her appearances are rare — which makes her one of those quietly intriguing figures that devoted readers of the Luba corner of the Love and Rockets universe will recognize as a small but genuine piece of a much larger, beautifully human tapestry.