Luba and her Family

Luba and Her Family by Gilbert Hernández
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Luba and Her Family is a collection of Love and Rockets stories featuring Luba, her sisters Petra and Fritzi, and her niece Venus.

I somehow missed out on Love and Rockets back in the day but I've been gnawing my way through the omnibuses through most of 2021.

Anyway, this one has less serious moments than Beto's last couple collections. Venus takes center stage, a precocious preteen who reads comics and sees more than the grownups think. Doralis, Luba's daughter, is the closeted host of a kid's show. Fritzi is a therapist with her share of lovers. Petra is a bodybuilder, also with her share of lovers.

I like what Beto is doing with Luba meeting up with her sisters after leaving Palomar for America but I would mind if the stories shifted back to that timeless town one of these days. Either there was more sex in this volume than the previous one or my memory is foggy. Beto is good at showing Luba and her sisters as multifaceted characters with both good and bad qualities. The rest of the stories spin out of that.

The art is as crisp as ever. I wonder if the Hernandez brothers were born clutching pencils. They definitely have this comic thing down.

Luba and Her Family is another great entry in the Love and Rockets library. Four out of five stars.

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