Gilbert Hernandez climaxed his award-winning "Palomar" series at the end of Love
and Rockets' original run by leveling the Central American hamlet. But he soon
picked up the story of Luba: The hammer-wielding matriarch had emigrated to the
U. S. where she contended not only with an unwelcoming new culture but also her
extended family. These "America" stories - over 80 of them, ranging from quick o
ne-page blackout sketches to graphic novellas were originally published in a num
ber of different comics and reprinted in a trilogy of oversized paperbacks. Luba
collects in one compact, affordable hardcover the entirety of these tales, show
casing Gilbert Hernandez's wicked wit, great compassion, and uncanny understandi
ng of how human beings love, squabble, and ultimately find a way to make it thro
ugh this life."
