Beyond Palomar

Title: Beyond Palomar Author: Gilbert Hernandez ISBN: 9781560978824 Publisher: Fantagraphics Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Comics & Graphic Novels 1559560 Publisher Description: 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 number of characters and themes that occupied later issues of Love and Rockets (including Luba's mother Maria and her sinister guardian angel Gorgo), and is a riveting page-turner besides, with lots of sex