Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This omnibus culls from the first 50 issues of Love and Rockets (1985–1996), presenting 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 Che