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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2016 23:58:31 GMT -5
No Fantagraphics solicits in the OP either, and there is news there that might interest some...Love and Rockets is launching a new series, (Vol. 5 maybe) though Diamond made a mistake and called it a monthly, los Brothers Hernandez have corrected that and said it will be approximately 3 issues a year.
I've been interested in trying L&R, so maybe I will give this a shot to see if I want to dive into the older stuff as well.
-M
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Post by berkley on Jun 26, 2016 19:51:11 GMT -5
No Fantagraphics solicits in the OP either, and there is news there that might interest some...Love and Rockets is launching a new series, (Vol. 5 maybe) though Diamond made a mistake and called it a monthly, los Brothers Hernandez have corrected that and said it will be approximately 3 issues a year. I've been interested in trying L&R, so maybe I will give this a shot to see if I want to dive into the older stuff as well. -M Yeah, I wonder what the new format will look like. The page size, for example: the comic book size of volume 2 (I think it was) in the 90s? Or the over-size of volume 1? Something different altogether? |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 27, 2016 8:23:21 GMT -5
 from ICv2 : Fantagraphics Books will launch Love & Rockets Monthly on September 28. The new, ongoing series ushers in Vol. IV for the long-running comic. On Jaime Herandez’s side the story follows the Hoppers 13 storyline: what happens when none of Maggie’s old punk friends want to be punk anymore? Also, who does evil Princess Animus think she is? (She really doesn’t know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert Hernadez’s side which follows the Palomar storyline: Fritz is in for some family drama when she discovers a grandchild she didn’t know existed. MSRP of $3.99. Love & Rockets has been published erratically since the early 1980s by Fantagraphics, and is considered one of the first comic books in the 1980s alternative comics movement. The Hernandez brothers produce stories independently of each other and each focus on a particular cast of characters and independent setting. Gilbert’s stories take place in the fictional Mexican village of Palomar and often feature elements of magical realism. Jaime’s stories take place in Los Angeles and involve on a social group of friends centered on friends-and-sometimes-lovers Maggie and Hopey. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jun 27, 2016 9:29:28 GMT -5
It will never be a monthly book, no way if Xamie is onboard... If they manage 4 issues a year I'll be surprised. Nevertheless, it is good news  Edit : oops, just saw that MRP mentioned it actually wouldn't be. Seems more sensible. And this will be volume 4 if I remember correctly. It is a weird one for me as I've never read the original run yet since I intend to purchase it. I got the whole of volume 2 and some of volume 3, many spin offs, so that's an awefull lot to read I have left! |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 28, 2016 7:07:28 GMT -5
Yeah, they're saying monthly, which I highly doubt as well, but that's how Fantagraphics is advertising it.
We'll see.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 15:09:40 GMT -5
Yeah, they're saying monthly, which I highly doubt as well, but that's how Fantagraphics is advertising it. We'll see. No it was a mistake by Diamond in the solicitation. Gilbert's wife already tweeted that it is not monthly, was never supposed to be monthly and Diamond was told to correct the text before publication and did not do so (because they are a monopoly what do they care if their customers are happy, they can't actually take their business elsewhere...). At best she said, there will be 3-4 issues per year. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jun 28, 2016 16:24:27 GMT -5
I'm confused as to how this can be Volume 5. There was the original volume 1 tat ended in the mid 1990s. The they did their solo books, like New Love and Penny Century for a while. Then they brought back Love and Rockets in the early 200s in regular comic book size, so that would have been colume 2. And then they did the L& R New Stories, which would have been volume 3 and just ended with teh recent issue. So, like Arthur, I would have thought this was volume 4.
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