Love and Rockets #34
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Poison River - Part 6," Peter finds himself caught in a web of suspicion as Garza investigates his ties to Communist sympathizers, even as he tries to reconnect with his estranged father. Meanwhile, Isobel meets with Blas, Ricky Boy, Docho, and Fabio to navigate the weight of her role as an informant in a situation that grows more complicated by the day.
In "Love and Rockets X, Part 4," Ben grapples with the weight of his past as he shaves his mohawk, a quiet gesture marking a shift after the woman he assaulted wakes from her coma. Meanwhile, Mike and Kristen share a reflective moment over memories of Vietnam, while E.T., Erf'Quake, and Junior ride with Steve, who, on the way to a Hollywood party, recalls a violent chapter from his skinhead days and the unexpected friendship that followed.
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- Published December 1990 by Fantagraphics Books; cover by Gilbert Hernandez, consistent with the brothers' alternating cover duties across the series.
- Contains installments of three concurrent serials: Jaime Hernandez's 'Wig Wam Bam' (Part 2 of that arc's chapter in this issue) featuring Maggie, Maya, Danita Lincoln, and Ray Dominguez; Gilbert Hernandez's 'Poison River' (his epic tracing Luba's pre-Palomar backstory, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, and the introduction of characters like Gorgo); and Gilbert's 'Love and Rockets X,' an Altmanesque L.A. ensemble piece.
- 'Poison River,' running through this issue, has been described by Fantagraphics as tracing 'the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother' — widely regarded as one of Gilbert Hernandez's masterworks.
- 'Wig Wam Bam,' which begins its serialization in #33 and continues through #34, is documented by Wikipedia as the longest single Locas story at 120 pages, eventually collected as The Complete Love & Rockets Vol. 11 (1994).
- According to one contemporary issue-by-issue review (The Stop Button), Jaime's chapter in #34 addresses the Maggie-and-Hopey romantic relationship with unusual directness and explicitly engages with anti-Latino racism experienced by Maggie — thematic territory the Locas stories had not foregrounded as directly before.
- The Poison River and Love and Rockets X material serialized through this issue was later collected in The Complete Love & Rockets Vol. 12 – Poison River (1994) and as part of the Love and Rockets Library Vol. 6: Beyond Palomar (2007); the Locas material appeared in Complete L&R Vol. 11: Wigwam Bam (1994) and Library Vol. 5: Perla la Loca.
- The entire first-volume run including this issue was reissued in a fifteen-volume paperback graphic novel series and again in a seven-volume mass-market paperback series released by Fantagraphics in 2022.
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Reprinted in The Complete Love & Rockets #10 (1993), The Complete Love & Rockets #10 [First printing] (1993), The Complete Love & Rockets #11 (1994), The Complete Love & Rockets #11 (1994), The Complete Love & Rockets #12 (1994), The Complete Love & Rockets #12 (1994), Locas #[nn] (2004), Locas #3 (2006), Love and Rockets Library #[5] (2007), Love and Rockets #5 (2008), Love and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] (2013), Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection #[5] (2022)
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