{"product_id":"beyond-palomar-9781560978824","title":"Beyond Palomar","description":"The sixth volume of \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Love and Rockets Library\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/em\u003e (including Luba's mother Maria and her sinister guardian angel Gorgo), and is a riveting page-turner besides, with lots of sex, drugs, guns, politics, and women who can crack walnuts with their stomachs. \u003cp\u003eLove and Rockets X, set in the early 1990s, takes us from plush Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of Black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs whose violent attack on an older woman sets the plot in motion -- as well as bringing in several older characters, including a couple of Palomar expatriates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories originally appeared circa 1989-1999 in the long-running (and ongoing) \u003cem\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/em\u003e comic book series, also featuring work by Gilbert's brothers. \u003cem\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/em\u003e has been called the greatest American comic book series of all time by \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e and a great, sprawling American novel by \u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHernandez, Gilbert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/strong\u003e is considered one of our greatest living cartoonists. He co-created the iconic series \u003cem\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/em\u003e, which has been ongoing since 1982, and authored numerous other comics and graphic novels, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. Raised in Oxnard, CA, Hernandez lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650034503954,"sku":"9781560978824","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_532285e1-2efa-4d0f-99eb-5539ae8fece5.jpg?v=1733280890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-palomar-9781560978824","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}