Synopsis
- The third in Gilbert Hernandez's line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets' "Fritz" in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers) is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. When dad's health fails, the siblings are then more concerned with the money he might leave them. The story weaves in and out of reality and hallucination and possibly back in forth in time, and to complicate things further, the sister is sexually obsessed with a mysterious man throughout the tale — or is it her brother (at one point posing as his sister so that he might gain his and her inheritance) that is so hot and bothered by this mystery stud? And that's only the tip of the iceberg. There's also a venture into ghost territory, with frauds bilking the gullible and Fritz's character(s) right in the middle
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Review
Gilbert Hernandez created some of the most memorable characters in popular fiction.
I don't think there's ever been a greater cartooning talent in terms of what he brings the serial comic book form.--Tom Spurgeon
About the Author
Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets.
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Love from the Shadows (Love and Rockets)
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Fantagraphics (edition Illustrated), 2011
ISBN 10: 1606994069
ISBN 13: 9781606994061
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Love from the Shadows (Love and Rockets)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket all in very good condition. Jacket with old price sticker on front. Black covers with blue lettering to front cover and bluish tint to spine. Pages clean and unmarked with B & W illustrations in panels. Love from the Shadows is the latest standalone graphic novel from Love and Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez---a hallucinatory, violent, and secy crime thriller involving a pair of siblings, a coveted inheritance, a gang of supernatural scam artists, a dubious sex change---and throughout the story, in guises real, fictional, and imagined, the one and only Rosalba "Fritz" Martinex of High Soft Lisp fame! Seller Inventory # 14716
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 120 pages. The third in Gilbert Hernandez?s line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets? ?Fritz? in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers) is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. When dad?s health fails, the siblings are then more concerned with the money he might leave them. The story weaves in and out of reality and hallucination and possibly back in forth in time, and to complicate things further, the sister is sexually obsessed with a mysterious man throughout the tale ? or is it her brother (at one point posing as his sister so that he might gain his and her inheritance) that is so hot and bothered by this mystery stud? And that?s only the tip of the iceberg. There?s also a venture into ghost territory, with frauds bilking the gullible and Fritz?s character(s) right in the middle. 120 pages of black-and-white comics Record # 361939. Seller Inventory # 361939
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