Luba: Three Daughters (Vol. 3) (The Luba Trilogy)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560977698 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1072 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets.
136 pages of black-and-white comics. It continues the story of matriarch Luba and her extended family's travails in the United States after her Central American hometown is destroyed at the end of Palomar. Hernandez is renowned for his female characters. Hernandez's mix of Latino soap opera, magic realist touches and rich naturalism in the service of stories that speak to the changes that come with age and experience are unparalleled in comics, and feature the most vivid, memorable and honestly depicted characters in comics. A brilliant
"Comic is excellent, but the comments above are inaccurate." according to M. Kitchell. I'm not sure where this "story of Empress" stuff is coming from as I'm new to both Hernandez and the Love and Rockets universe, but having just finished Luba: Three Daughters, I wanted to comment that the descriptions above share no relation to the graphic novel I just read. Here's what the back of. Great Stuff! Captures the beauty and shock of human life! I love all of the Hernandez brothers' material, and this is top quality stuff, drawn from the world of Palomar. I've been into this beautiful universe Los BROS have created for 20 years now, and I'm still drawn back to it, whereas X-Men and Fantastic Four have revealed themselves as mere puerilitie
"The rough-edged Latin American minimalist, stylized black and white comic strips of Gilbert Hernandez have been widely described as the graphic equivalent to the fabulism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureata."As Hernandez matures, he's expanding his style of storytelling into something close to the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harumi Murakami and other creators of haunted landscapes where reality becomes a question of perception rather than a set of objective facts. "