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Love From the Shadows by Gilbert Hernandez

Promotional ad for Love and Rockets #1 by Jaime Hernandez & Gilbert Hernandez, 1982.

So this might be the best comic ever. I don’t know necessarily that it’s my favorite, but from an objective standpoint, it’s gotta be top 5, up there with Maus and Watchmen and any other masterpiece you’d care to name.

Beto.

Preview of Mind MGMT #1. Story and art by Matt Kindt, cover by Matt Kindt and Gilbert Hernandez.  Comes out May 23rd.  Preview from CBR:

Matt Kindt, the most original voice in genre comics, outdoes himself in this bold new espionage series!

Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story, the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the flight’s missing passenger, the man who was Mind MGMT’s greatest success—and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?

Promotional ad for Love and Rockets #1 with art by Gilbert Hernandez, 1982.

*Note the unfortunate loss of the last three letters of ‘Before’ in the top tagline. Presented here as originally (mis)printed, but I made a ‘repaired’ version which can be seen here.

Good golly, it seems like it was just the other day we were announcing the start of the 3rd volume of the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets in its annual New Stories format and here we are already up to the 5th issue, which will make its debut in July at Comic-Con in San Diego and land in stores a couple months later, as usual. Jaime’s cover reveals the return of Vivian and that can only spell one thing for everyone around her: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. The back cover Table of Contents should spark your imagination as to the issue’s contents and, say, that’s a familiar face we haven’t seen for a while from Gilbert…