Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 5 (Vol. 5) (Love and Rockets)

In the annual installment of the long-running comic series, Rays ex, The Frogmouth, gets a visit from her sister; Lubas granddaughter, Killer, stars in a movie inspired by their family.

How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandezs stunning two-part masterpiece The Love Bunglers from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Rays relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggies (and her familys) past? If youre Jaime, you deftly move sideways and switch focus to other characters, specifically Rays ex, the rambunctious Frogmouth. In Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners, Muneca, the Frogmouths half-sister, comes to visit for a weekend and sees what kind of life the Frog Princess is living with Reno and Borneo as well as a brand new character or two. On the other-brother side, Gilbert Hernandez celebrates the 30th anniversary by bringing one of his current characters (Killer, granddaughter to the legendary Luba) into the Palomar milieu in a story that showcases a fictionalized movie Palomar (starring Fritz as a combination of Luba and Tonantzn), even as it brings back a number of the classic Palomar characters for real. This will be a much-anticipated homecoming for fans of the classic Love and Rockets of the 1980s. Thirty years in, Love and Rockets continues to surprise and delight. 96