Fatima: the Blood Spinners


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"A drug called 'spin' offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh-eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is dying out! With no cure to be found, the beautiful, lovesick Fatima may be the only thing standing between the survivors and the apocalypse. Get ready for zombies, mutants, drug lords, and gorgeous women!"--page [4] of cover.




Fatima: The Blood Spinners #2


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_Love and Rockets'_ Gilbert Hernandez continues his scary and sexy romp through the zombie-infested future! With the irresistible drug "spin" turning more and more people into shambling brain-eaters, the beautiful Fatima finds herself one of the last agents standing against them. But with conspiracy theories running rampant, it's impossible to tell if she's on the right side or if her own organization is responsible for unleashing the plague! *From _Love and Rockets_ cocreator Gilbert Hernandez! *Zombies, drug lords, and gorgeous women! "I picture Gilbert Hernandez approaching his drawing board these days like Lawrence of Arabia approaching a Turkish convoy: 'NO PRISONERS! NO PRISONERS!'" -Comic Book Resources ![DH Original](http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/blog/DHO2.jpg "DH Original")




Fatima: The Blood Spinners #3


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_Love and Rockets'_ Gilbert Hernandez raises the stakes and the craziness as Fatima's war against drug-created zombies seems lost! When Fatima's superiors come up with a last-ditch solution �� to put she and the few other surviving agents into suspended animation, to awaken once the flesh-eaters have starved to death �� are they saving the planet or condemning Fatima to a world completely overtaken by the undead? "Anything from any or all of the Hernandez Brothers is cause for celebration." �� Mike Allred, creator of _Madman_ ![](http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/blog/DHO2.jpg)




Fatima: The Blood Spinners #1


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**Love and_ZOMBIES!** Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is dying out! With no cure to be found, the beautiful, lovesick Fatima may be the only thing standing between the survivors and the apocalypse. Get ready for four issues of zombies, drug lords, and gorgeous women! "Hernandez's art is as assured and potent as ever; he draws in black-and-white as if color had never been invented."ComicMix ![DH Original](http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/blog/DHO2.jpg "DH Original")




Fatima: The Blood Spinners #4


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_Love and Rockets_ co-creator Gilbert Hernandez brings his freakiest tale to date to a conclusion only he could dream up! Trapped in the future, Fatima and her fellow zombie hunters discover a civilization even more ravaged than they could have imagined, as they face giant mutants and the possibility that they are the last remaining humans! Can they save the world, and can love bloom amongst the ruins? The weird, sexy conclusion! From _Love and Rockets_ co-creator Gilbert Hernandez! ![](http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/index_images/blog/DHO2.jpg)




The Love Bunglers


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The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life - despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends - is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off and on lover, Ray Dominguez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbitnovels, Jaime Hernandez has been following his longtime character Maggie around for several decades, all of which has seemed to be building towards this book in particular.




Julio's Day


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It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death-rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now) is his latest graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one life -- indeed, one century in a human life -- through a series of carefully crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling vignettes. There is hope and joy, there is bullying and grief, there is war (so much war -- this is after all the 20th century), there is love, there is heartbreak. This is very much a singular, standalone story that will help cement Hernandez's position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists of this, or any other, century.




Bumperhead


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A fascinatingly disjointed tale of drugs, rock and roll, and adolescence from a legendary cartoonist The Love and Rockets author, Gilbert Hernandez, returns with Bumperhead, a companion book to Marble Season. Whereas Marble Season explored the exuberant and occasionally troubled existence of the wide-eyed preteen Huey, Bumperhead zeroes in on disaffected teenhood with its protagonist, Bobby. Bumperhead follows Bobby, a young slacker who narrates his life as it happens but offers very little reflection on the events that transpire. He lives in the moment exclusively and is incapable of seeing the world outside of his experiences. He comes of age in the 1970s, making a rapid progression through that era's different subcultures and in a short period of time segues from a stoner glam rocker to a drunk rocker to a speed-freak punk. He drifts in and out of relationships with friends, both male and female. Life zooms past him. Hernandez's approach captures the numbness and raw undirected anger and passion of a young man who waits for life to happen to him, not noticing all the while that it is happening. Subtle and thought-provoking, Bumperhead is a fascinating read.




Palomar


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For the first time ever, Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup stories from Love & Rockets are collected in one 500-page deluxe hardcover edition, finally presenting the epic as the single novel it was always intended to be. Set in the mythical Central American town Palomar, the stories weave in and out of the town's entire population, crafting an intricate tapestry of Latin American experience. Luba, the guiding spirit of Palomar, has been universally hailed as one of the great characters of contemporary fiction. Ideal for fans and new readers alike.




Love and Rockets


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Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic to a fat, all-new annual graphic-novel length package that will be available in bookstores. Jaime launches the new format with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad with grief and rampaging through the galaxy. A motley group of superheroes assemble to try to stop her. Only the first half of the saga, it combines Jaime's razor-sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style action. Gilbert Hernandez has these stories: "Tamanny" (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); "Papa" (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); "The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy" (superpowered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); "The Tender Room" (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); "Chiro el Indio" (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and "Never Say Never" (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas).