Love and Rockets #8

(September 1984)

Indicia / Staff / Contents / Letters (Table of Contents: 1)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gary Groth (credited)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Indexer Notes

Table of contents, production credits and indicia. Starts on the inside front cover, continued right after the final story.

Letters of comment from Richmond Gardner (Winchester, MA); Matt A. Yockey (Galveston, IN)

[Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Three] (Table of Contents: 2)

Locas / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Jaime Hernandez (credited as Jaime)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (credited as Jaime)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (credited as Jaime)

Letters

Jaime Hernandez (credited as Jaime)

Genre

adventure; drama

Characters

Reno Banks (1st appearance, splash page only); Penny Century; Maggie Chascarillo; Chiness; Daffy; Doctor Beaky; Terry Downe; Hopey Glass; Zero Gravity (single-panel); Jaime Hernandez (cameo) (two-panels); Machi; Izzy Ortiz; Rand Race; Rena Titañon; Dot Winks; Monica Miranda Zandinski; Flaco; Joe; Lester; Benso; Boo Boo; Fourty-Four

Synopsis

Hopey is uptight because Izzy got into an accident and because she hasn't heard from Maggie who is in the island of Chepan. In Rio Frio, Dot tries to get a reluctant Rand Race to agree to an interview but then asks him out to lunch. They then spend the night together which upsets Maggie when she finds out. Dr. Beaky refuses to acquiesce to the Chepan islander's demands for freedom, so they begin to blow up his factories and warehouses one by one. Rand rushes to the island to warn Maggie and the visiting Rena but fails to get there in time before the bomb in their building goes off.

Reprints

• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 (August 1987)
• in The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #2 - Mechanics (May 1988)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 [2nd Edition] - Las Mujeres Perdidas (June 1990)
• in Locas (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #[nn] (September 2004)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
• in Love and Rockets (Titan, 2007 series) #1 - Maggie the Mechanic (May 2007)
• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Indexer Notes

Titled on the page "Mechanics Part III." The story is not given the title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11.

The Laughing Sun (Table of Contents: 3)

Palomar / comic story / 8 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

Jesús Ángel; Heraclio Calderon; Carmen; Chelo; Israel Díaz; Sakahaftewa Garcia (also as Satch); Laura Gomez; Manuel (2nd flashback only); Soledad Marquez (2nd flashback only); Pipo (1st flashback only); Pintor Salcedo (2nd flashback only); Toco (2nd flashback only); Vicente; Tonantzín Villaseñor (as Tonansin); Laura and Jesus's unnamed baby; Marta (Satch's Wife)

Synopsis

Jesus goes on an apparent rampage, hurting his wife and wrecking his house before heading to the mountains. His old friends Israel, Satch, Vicente and Heraclio get together and go try to find him.

Reprints

• in Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series) #[nn] (1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 (August 1987)
• in Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) (August 1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 [2nd Edition] - Las Mujeres Perdidas (June 1990)
• in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (August 2003)
• in Palomar (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2005 series) #1 (Agosto 2005)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[2] - Heartbreak Soup (January 2007)
• in Love and Rockets (Titan, 2007 series) #2 - Heartbreak Soup (May 2007)
• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Indexer Notes

The Vicente character states on page five that the events in the Sopa de Gran Pena, Part Two story (from issue four) happened a decade earlier.

Signed "May-June '84"

On Isidro's Beach (Heartbreak Soup Theater) (Table of Contents: 4)

Palomar / comic story / 8 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

Casimira de los Santos; Doralis; Guadalupe; Luba; Maricela; Tipin' Tipin'; Isidro Rivas; Isidro's Wife (flashback)

Synopsis

Guadalupe encounters a man on the beach who is staring at her. He comes closer and stares at Casimira and Maricela who are playing in the water. It later turns out to be Isidro, a formerly prosperous man who has run into hard times.

Reprints

• in Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series) #[nn] (1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #4 - Tears from Heaven (January 1988)
• in The Reticent Heart and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (August 2003)
• in Palomar (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2005 series) #1 (Agosto 2005)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[2] - Heartbreak Soup (January 2007)
• in Love and Rockets (Titan, 2007 series) #2 - Heartbreak Soup (May 2007)
• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Letters Cont. (Table of Contents: 5)

letters page / 1.44 pages (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mark Voyack (Coaldale, PA); Matthew-Louis M. Levin (Brattleboro, VT); Thom Young (Boise, ID); John MacLeod (Ontario, Canada); Garold Reynolds (Santa Cruz, CA); David Campiti (N. Attleboro, VA); Bill Wray; Bosco Santamaria; Mike Prince

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

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1.56 pages (report information)

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

In the first printing there are two ads. The first ad is back issue order info for the first seven issues of the L&R series. It shares the same page with the final part of the letters section. The second ad (on the inside back cover) is for the second issue of Dalgoda.

In the second printing (from 1991) the letters on the third page are not included. Instead a full two pages of Love & Rockets material are advertised.

Reprints

• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Heartbreak Soup (Table of Contents: 7)

Palomar / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Colors

Janet Toombs (credited) (color separations)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Genre

drama

Characters

Heraclio Calderon; Carmen; Chelo; Doralis; Luba; Tipin' Tipin'

Reprints

• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 (August 1987)
which is reprinted
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #3 [2nd Edition] - Las Mujeres Perdidas (June 1990)
• in Love and Rockets: The Covers (Fantagraphics, 2013 series) (March 2013)
• in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[2] - No. 6 - No. 13 (2022)

Indexer Notes

back cover