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Human Diastrophism: A Love and Rockets Book Paperback - 2007

by Gilbert Hernandez

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The entire "Love and Rockets" series is being released as a collection of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that presents the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the second half of Hernandezs acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar.

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Human Diastrophism is the fourth volume in The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the second that collects writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's main Palomar storyline, magical-realist tales of a small Central American town. It begins with the landmark "Human Diastrophism." In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar -- but the murders only exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town that the outside world made when it began to intrude. "Diastrophism'' concludes with the death of one of its most beloved characters. As a postscript -- one of the most hauntingly magical moments of the entire series -- a rain of ashes drifts down upon Palomar. Also included are all the post-"Diastrophism'' stories, in which Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and Hernandez sows the seeds for the "Palomar diaspora" that ends this dense, enthralling book. In addition to seeing Hernandez push the comics medium into greater artistic and narrative heights (along with contemporaries such as Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes), readers will see characters change as they age in "real-time" in stories that span generations and centuries.

Created between 1989-1995, these stories first appeared in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comics series, also featuring work by Gilbert's brothers, Jaime and Mario. L&R has been called "the greatest American comic book series of all time" by Rolling Stone and "a great, sprawling American novel" by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations.

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  • Title Human Diastrophism: A Love and Rockets Book
  • Author Gilbert Hernandez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fantagraphics Books, -
  • Publication date 2007-07-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781560978480 / 1560978481
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 18.80 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Serial murders, Graphic novels
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012289974
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.5

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