{"product_id":"palomar-the-heartbreak-soup-stories","title":"Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories [PRE-ORDER 10\/06]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOT YET AVAILABLE. Pre-order now. This title is scheduled to arrive October 6, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: release dates and prices are tentative and subject to change at the publisher's whim.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen pre-ordering with multiple items, remember your order will not ship until the last pre-ordered item is in stock. If you want items to ship separately, place separate orders.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis omnibus culls from the first 50 issues of Love and Rockets (1985–1996), presenting Gilbert Hernandez's saga of a small Latin American town, where the arrival of an assertive, sexy single mother roils the already-tempestuous lives of its residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalomar is the perfect entry into the works of critically acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez and the still-ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series! It stars the inhabitants of a small Latin American town — long-suffering midwife\/sheriff Chelo; Pipo, tomboy-turned-heartthrob; Carmen, wryer than her years; teen boys Heraclio, Satch, Augustin, Jesus, Israel, and Vicente, whose paths diverge and intersect over time; Diana and Tonantzin, sisters and polar opposites; and many other finely drawn and dynamic characters — whose already-tempestuous lives are roiled when Luba, an assertive single mother, moves there to set up a bathing business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalomar is a selection from the first 50 issues (1985–1996) of Hernandez's multigenerational saga, which has followed the lives and loves, adventures and horrors, of his signature characters, their children, and their children's children — borne from a place where the mystical is quotidian and the quotidian is mystical — for 40+ years. These are the stories that forever changed the face (and the heart) of American comics.\u003cbr\u003ePalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories is part of the Love and Rockets series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hernandez's style is entirely his own: brutally telegraphic (he can capture an entire emotionally complex scene in a single panel, then imply even more by abruptly cutting to the middle of a later scene), loaded with insight about the bumpy terrain of familial and sexual relationships, swinging wildly in tone between suffocating darkness and sunny charm.\" — Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Artist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jaime Hernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003eFantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 520pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9 x 11.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover, b\/w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 6, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979-8875002663\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49030762266880,"sku":"9798875002663","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/palomarhbshc.jpg?v=1784483354","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/palomar-the-heartbreak-soup-stories","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}