The Emperor of Blotos

A bizarre ruler from Gilbert Hernandez's wildly inventive sci-fi/fantasy storytelling in Love and Rockets, the Emperor of Blotos presides over an eccentric corner of the universe alongside characters like Isla, Lumina, Katak, and Cap'n Kork.

A gloriously offbeat creation from the singular imagination of Gilbert Hernandez, The Emperor of Blotos made his entrance in 2016 within the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories — one of alternative comics' most celebrated ongoing sagas from Fantagraphics. Sharing his strange corner of the universe with characters like Isla, Lumina, Katak, Cap'n Kork, and Trix, he inhabits the kind of wonderfully eccentric, anything-goes storytelling that has made Love and Rockets a touchstone of the Modern Age. With eight catalog appearances across the Love and Rockets titles, he's a distinctive figure in Hernandez's ever-expanding cosmos — the sort of character whose very name promises something delightfully weird and worth seeking out.