Love and Rockets #4 [Regular Edition]

(November 2017)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez; Jaime Hernandez

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez; Jaime Hernandez

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Credits and title page with an image of the alternate cover for the issue.

Since I Don't Have You (Table of Contents: 2)

Palomar / comic story / 14 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)

Genre

drama

Characters

Carmen (flashback); Fritz; Pipo Jimenez (also in flashback); Luba (also in flashback); Manuel (flashback); Soledad Marquez (death) (off-panel); Max; Sheriff Borro (flashback); Tipin' Tipin' (flashback); Toco (flashback); Tiburcia; Movie Theater Owner

Synopsis

Pipo finds out Soledad Marquez has died, then visits her now-officially divorced ex Fritz before taking a flight to Palomar. In a flashback to the time period of the earliest Palomar story, fourteen-year-old Pipo deals with fluctuating interest from Manuel and persistent attention from Soledad. In a teenage pique, she tells Soledad to scare Manuel with an unloaded gun but he winds up killing him. Flash-forward to the mid-to-late nineties post-Palomar period, the now adult and well-off Pipo reconciles with the still-imprisoned Soledad.

Indexer Notes

Expands on the Sopa de Gran Pena (Heartbreak Soup) story from Love and Rockets volume one, numbers three and four (1983). Title refers to the namesake song by The Skyliners, which is directly quoted in the story.

1979 (Table of Contents: 3)

Locas / comic story / 6 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

C'mon, I'll supply the wheels.

Genre

drama

Characters

Doyle Blackburn (flashback); Maggie Chascarillo; Del Chimney (flashback); Mary Christmas (flashback) (unnamed); Terry Downe (flashback); Hopey Glass (flashback); Malo (flashback); Mike Tran (flashback); Henry

Synopsis

In Del Chimney's house, Del tries to prevent Doyle from starting a fight, Maggie waits for Hopey, who arrives with Hilary Pute's soon-to-be destroyed lunchbox. Del nixes Malo enlisting Maggie in his scheme to smuggle drugs over the Mexican border.

Reprints

• in Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story) (Fantagraphics, 2019 series) (2019)

Indexer Notes

Untitled here. Title is taken from the Is This How You See Me? book.

Anima (Table of Contents: 4)

Animus / comic story / 6 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

Shoot, I can't see Anima anymore.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Animus (charred corpse); Isla; Katak; Lumina; Stefanovich (unnamed); The Emperor of Blotos (Anima's Father); Cucuya

Synopsis

The Emperor of Blotos is arrested and condemned to banishment in the Asteroid of Sorrows for unleashing the Hellmets. However, just as his judgement is given, a Hellmet arrives and incinerates his prosecutors after taking over his body. Newly super-powered Isla and her sister Lumina look for a spaceport to get to their home planet, but the Hellmet that Anima had defeated arrives to try to take over Isla's body again.

Indexer Notes

Stefanovich, the scavenger/thief seen floating around in a pill-shaped pod won't have his name revealed until issue seven.

12th Street and Vine (Table of Contents: 5)

Locas / comic story / 2 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)

Genre

drama

Characters

Calvin Chascarillo (single-panel); Maggie Chascarillo; Ray Dominguez; Linda (Maggie's niece); Sonny; Canicas (Ray's pet cat); Richy the Second (Ray's pet cat)

Synopsis

Maggie finally lets Ray know that it was her brother Calvin who brutally assaulted him. A story told from Ray's point of view, first person perspective.

Reprints

• in Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story) (Fantagraphics, 2019 series) (2019)

[My name is Killer] (Table of Contents: 6)

Killer / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez

Genre

drama

Characters

Chino; Professor Enigma; Dora "Killer" Rivera

Synopsis

Killer tries to come to terms with the less than rapturous response to her newly started singing career.

1979 (Table of Contents: 7)

Locas / comic story / 2 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

Where's Hopey?

Genre

drama

Characters

Maggie Chascarillo (flashback); Del Chimney (flashback); Terry Downe (flashback) (single panel); Hopey Glass (flashback); Malo (flashback)

Synopsis

Malo, this time dressed up in "punk" gear, tries to convince Hopey to smuggle drugs across the Mexican border for him.

Reprints

• in Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story) (Fantagraphics, 2019 series) (2019)

Indexer Notes

Title is from the Is This How You See Me? book.

Letter's Page (Table of Contents: 8)

letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Eric Reynolds (credited as Ed.) (replies)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mia McLeod, Bob Buchmann, Helen Meyers, Alan Bowman. Accompanied by a photo of McLeod.

Fantagraphics Books (Table of Contents: 9)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Xaime)

Colors

?

Characters

Maggie Chascarillo; Hopey Glass

Indexer Notes

Back cover color illustration of Maggie and Hopey on the beach in their younger days. In the Fantagraphics variant this is a Gilbert-drawn illustration of Killer singing on stage.