Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets)

Collecting material from the first 50 issues of Love and Rockets (1985–1996), this omnibus edition presents Gilbert Hernandez’s saga of a small Latin American town, where the arrival of an assertive, sexy single mother roils the already-tempestuous lives of its residents. 

Palomar is the perfect entry into the works of critically acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez and the still-ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series! It stars the inhabitants of a small Latin American town―long-suffering midwife/sheriff Chelo; Pipo, tomboy-turned-heartthrob; Carmen, wryer than her years; teen boys Heraclio, Satch, Augustin, Jesus, Israel, and Vicente, whose paths diverge and intersect over time; Diana and Tonantzin, sisters and polar opposites; and many other finely drawn and dynamic characters―whose already-tempestuous lives are shaken up further when Luba, an assertive single mother, moves there to set up a bathing business.

Hernandez’s multigenerational saga of Palomar is an unforgettable series of the stories that forever changed the face (and the heart) of American comics.