- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez; Gilbert Hernandez
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez; Gilbert Hernandez
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Includes contents and credits for the issue.
Inside front cover.
- Script
- Gary Groth
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters span 0.6 page on inside front cover, and 0.67 page on page 10.
Features letters of comment from Stephen Farenza (West Plains, NY), L. Dietrich Adonis (Philadelphia, PA), P.J. (Security, CO), Jeff Killian (Thoughts and Images' business manager, Seattle, WA), Joel Stelt (Grand Rapids, MI), Chris Duffy (Winchester MA), and Charles Van Meter (Upstate, South Carolina).
- Script
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited) (signed as )
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited) (signed as )
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited) (signed as )
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited) (signed as )
- Genre
- drama
- Reprints
Title page for this story. Page 1 of the full 13-page story in this issue.
- Script
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- M-mom... It's not that late...
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Ofelia Beltran (also in flashback); Alcalde Jesus "Chuy" Bernal; Carmen Calderon; Heraclio Calderon (also in flashback); Chelo; Casimira de los Santos; Doralis de los Santos; Gerry (surfer dude, 1st appearance); Guadalupe; Humberto; Augustín Jiménez; Pipo Jimenez; Luba (also in flashback); Maricela; Martín el Loco; Geraldo Mejia (flashback) (single-panel); Boots Piña; Chancla Piña; Concha Piña; Peter Rio (flashback) (single-panel); Riri; Archie Ruiz; Khamo de los Santos (1st appearance); Steve Stranski (surfer dude with glasses, 1st appearance); Theo; Tomaso; Chango Valdes; Diana Villaseñor; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Tomaso's unnamed river victim; Antonino (flashback); Aldo Munkres (corpse, behind the scenes); Debbie (single-panel); Bruce (single-panel)
- Synopsis
- Luba yells at Maricela for arriving home late. Heraclio appraises Humberto's drawings and introduces him to fine artists. Archie offers to marry Luba but she's been married to someone else for fourteen years. Tonantzin's paranoid political obsessions are worrying her sister and friends as they discover she has a letter from the jailed Geraldo Mejia. Ofelia admonishes Luba strongly after she yells at Maricela again. Martin sees some human blood and broken glasses next to a bed in Señor Munkres's house. Luba goes to an archeological dig to see Chango but comes across her ex-lover Khamo.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- soap opera
The two white kids who call each other "dude" are not given names until their appearance in the "Love and Rockets X" story that runs in issues #31-39.
Pages 2-13 (numbered as such) of the 13-page story in this issue.