Love and Rockets #2

(Summer 2001)

Julio's Day [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 1)

Julio's Day / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You sure are happy for your first day of school, Julio.

Genre

drama

Characters

Tommy Doakes; Araceli Victoria Isabela Melendez; Renata (Julio's Mother); Julio Reyes; Sofia; Julio's Daddy

Synopsis

Julio is physically bullied by two kids after school and left dangling on a forked tree branch. Sofia eventually finds him and takes him back home where both are whipped for being late from school.

Reprints

• in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (McSweeney's, 1998 series) #13 (2004)
• in Julio's Day (Fantagraphics, 2013 series) (February 2013)
which is reprinted
• in Julio (Atrabile, 2014 series) (2014)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #15 - Children of Palomar and Other Tales (2023)

Love and Rockets Issue Number 2 Summer, 2001 (Table of Contents: 2)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

? [as Eds.]

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Rory, Leroy, Sally, John Sloat, Matt Silvie. Continued on page thirty-two.

Maggie [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 3)

Locas / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

Letters

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

So, I figure, Izzy, how could the world suck?

Genre

drama

Characters

Reno Banks (single panel, unnamed); Maggie Chascarillo (featured); Tony Chase; Sid Doan (first appearance); Hopey Glass; Izzy; Kebra (first appearance); Milena Loznika (1st appearance, single-panel, unnamed); Vivian "Frogmouth" Solis; Eliseo; Cuca; Cop #1; Cop #2

Synopsis

An eyepatch-wearing Hopey kicks Vivian out of the bar she's tending due to an altercation Vivian helped cause the previous night. Later on Sid threatens Vivian with a knife. While on the way to the police station to file a restraining order she gets into yet another fight.

Reprints

• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[22] - Ghost of Hoppers (December 2005)
• in Locas (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #II - Maggie, Hopey & Ray (June 2009)
• in Locas, Maggie Chascarrillo & Hopey Glass (Delcourt, 2010 series) #[nn] (septembre 2010)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[9] - Esperanza (June 2011)
• in Love and Rockets: Stories [Free Comic Book Day] (Fantagraphics, 2016 series) (2016)

Keywords

soap opera

Indexer Notes

The headband-wearing Milena character is seen here on page six, panel two standing next to Vivian. She appears again in issue four also as a background figure and won't be named until much later on.

Me for the Unknown [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 4)

Me for the Unknown / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Mario Hernandez (credited as Mario)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (credited as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (credited as Beto)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (credited as Beto)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

My wife... medicated to a stupor... my children wouldn't know if I were dead unless the checks stopped coming...

Genre

drama

Characters

Magda Chac (unnamed); Chestwig; Debra Lillard; Lily Lillard; Taggert Lillard; Taggy Lillard; Lunky (unnamed); Oliver Turnbull; Henry Tweeder; Chongo; Mr. Gopo; Dario's Unnamed Brother (first appearance)

Reprints

• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #15 - Children of Palomar and Other Tales (2023)

Erratic Stigmatic (Table of Contents: 5)

Errata Stigmata / comic story / 2.75 pages (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Characters

Errata Stigmata

Reprints

• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #12 - Comics Dementia (2016)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Clip Art / comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Goodness, Natalia!

Characters

Roy; Natalia

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

letters page / 0.4 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from David Spero Peligro, Dave Starks, Bob Fries III, Greg Strohecker.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez

Inks

Jaime Hernandez

Colors

Carrie Whitney (credited)

Indexer Notes

Back cover.