Beyond Palomar

by Gilbert Hernández

Book Overview

The sixth volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library is the third collection of writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar main storyline. Poison River is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one of Hernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrival in Palomar. This story introduces a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560978821
• ISBN13: 9781560978824
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

these books are weird

I guess when i started reading these i liked the l.a. stories better than the mexican ones, and wanted them to be all about hispanic life in l.a. Over time though the characters in the mexican stories started to become better. Plus luba's got big boobs.

Hands Down One of the Best Stories Ever Written.

Readers of Gilbert H.'s fiction occasionally accuse him of lifting the slightly "mystic small town" aesthetic associated with writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez or william Faulkner, and not without good reason. I won't go into detail why this is one of my favorite books of all time, but I would like to know where Gilbert got his ideas, especially the bellybutton fixation and the walnut cracking.