![]() ![]() But I can’t do it anymore, after 25 years. ![]() ![]() “Even though these characters are part of me. “There’s nothing harder than doing new stories with old characters,” he said of his multi-generational cast, headed by the fiery and large-bosomed Luba, who mostly reside in the vaguely magic-realist Central American town of Palomar. When co-creators break up - Gilbert and his brother, Jaime, are still producing one “Love and Rockets” a year but have basically “gone solo” - their tendencies typically emerge full-blown.Īt the risk of forcing the Lennon analogy, “Chance in Hell” is more Plastic Ono Band than “Imagine”: It’s raw and, at 120 pages uncut by Jaime’s more hopeful worldview and more graceful style, seems like a lot of pain and peril in one place.įor Gilbert himself, who hopes to produce a one-off each year, the process was liberating. Hernandez’s latest work is “Chance in Hell,” the violent and perverse graphic novel about a vulnerable young girl found wandering in a city dump. “It’s so hard to do funny, tragic, local and epic, and he does all simultaneously, and with great aplomb.” ![]()
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