The End of Love and Rockets

Salon.com reports about the end of a 20-year run for indie comic book “Love and Rockets”

The article is shit, if you want my opinion. With crap like Shakespeare already knew what Los Bros. Hernandez figured out two decades ago, when they threaded their deeply personal tales Nice try with the comics can be literature too angle, but really, pitching it that way will not work. Oh, and guess what? In the ery same paragraph we get the comics aren’t always about superheroes. It was laughable. The ties that bind us normal humans — those who can’t change into a cape and tights at the first sign of trouble — are those we sometimes tighten or tear to pieces on the way to discovering who we are.

The two-paragraph snippet that Salon deems to share with us was not nearly as inviting as its subject. Love and Rockets, the comic, not the band, as I remember it, was an enjoyable read: funny, worthwhile, and best-of-all, well-drawn. I won’t tell you it “appeals to uniersal themes” or compare it to shakespeare, I’ll just say it was good that the comic made such a long run of things.