1987's Love and Rockets #24 cover by artist Jaime Hernandez.

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1987's Love and Rockets #24 cover by artist Jaime Hernandez.
Calendar art by Jaime Hernandez.
jean: BARBATOS—
mavuika: no baby this is mavuika
a little self-indulgent blabbing about my own blog: it feels like i should to say that, whenever i post Locas/Love & Rockets stuff, i am aware that very few people on this website are invested in it at all. i mostly share it because i think people who have never read it or even heard of it might find these specific panels compelling, beautiful, funny, and so on. and a small but sincere apology to anyone who always thinks "this might as well be spam" because they have one reason or another not to like it under any circumstances. maybe you've already checked it out and didn't like it! not everything can be for everyone, which of course is fine.
BUT!
if you ever see these posts and think "i don't know what this is, so it must not be for me, i don't have the context, time to scroll past" - please know that i'm not posting this stuff assuming anyone even recognizes it. in fact, part of why i do (alongside the compulsion to share whatever i'm fixated on) is that i think it more people on tumblr should be aware of this seminal queer comix story that has run largely nonstop since 1982!
i mean, really - it's a sprawling saga about the lives of (among heaps of other characters) these two working-class latina punks who love each other in many ways, but are too guarded and damaged and obsessed with each other to ever make it work for very long, living in this massive world of wrestling, crime, and rock & roll, with occasional deft little strokes of magical realism. the timeline jumps around, there's tons of foreshadowing and throwaway references that become very important way later, characters drift in and out of each other's orbit over the course of decades, they age and their bodies change in real time. it really takes advantage of its size and of always having the same artist/writer, not just getting longer but getting so much deeper. nothing quite like it in comics, as far as i know.
also i think the art is wonderful, clearly influenced by older "slice of life/romance" style, but with all these great little choices that make it so distinctive. the incredible artistic economy packed into those little boxes! the drama of black and white space! the large and small ways it changes stylistically to reflect or contrast the tone, or to indicate point of view!
an example from vol. 1 #29: this nightmarish (hallucinated?) devil without any of the usual comic-book stylization, then the playing children drawn like they're from "dennis the menace," then the jesus figure from the adult world more detailed (with the child's hand still cartoonish), back to the usual comic book style for this dramatic, horrifying birth, with a little more detail on the sinister, cloaked midwife, evoking that first panel:
i know underground comic books (particularly underground, adult-oriented, non-superhero, non-manga) are a niche interest in general, but i really do think this one is the kind of thing that some people on here could really enjoy, either reading through it or just in tumblr snippets.
and to be clear! very important: i'm genuinely not saying any of this to scold anyone at all!
i don't feel like any of my posts need or deserve more attention, and it doesn't hurt my feelings or anything when they don't get it. i just want to clarify that, more than anything else, i put it up here for people who like the kind of stories that i do but don't have any knowledge or interest in this particular example. (although, shoutout to the handful of you that already do!)
in any case, the important thing is that no matter what, i will be buried honorably, my sarcophagus lined with 0-to-3-note posts. which is fine ;)
Amidramas
A principios del 2024 estaba en mi mundo de voces, entre esas voces escuché la de una chica que habíamos sido amigas en el 2015 y, que luego, por un comentario con poco tacto mío, ella se retiró dramáticamente de mi vida. Al escuchar su voz decidí retomar contacto con ella y empezamos a juntarnos y a salir. Mientras tanto yo seguía con las voces, alucinaciones visuales y ataques psicóticos. Aún así íbamos a bares y nos divertíamos, compartíamos detalles de nuestras vidas. Yo le comenté que escuchaba voces y ella me dijo que descubrió que era borderline porque se había hecho los tests con su psicólogo.
Hablando un día le dije que quería jugar al rol y ella me comentó que justo había conseguido un grupo y me invitó a participar.
Empezamos a ir, luego tuve mi intento de suicidio y en el medio estuve internada tres veces, pero seguí perteneciendo al grupo de rol.
Pasó un tiempo, ella siguió yendo y yo también pero en un momento decidió dejar de ir al grupo de rol porque sintió que un integrante, que era pareja de otra chica integrante del grupo, le había tirado los perros por lo que no se sentía cómoda.
Seguí asistiendo al grupo de rol pero ella se empezó a alejar de mí y empecé a sentir que estaba atrás de una persona, siempre le escribía y ella apenas contestaba, su excusa era que estaba en una relación amorosa complicada.
Dicha relación amorosa terminó dramáticamente y nos volvimos a ver, estaba todo bien entre nosotras, digo, o al menos eso parecía.
A la semana me escribió para decirme que iba a tomar distancia de mí. Sin entender porqué, le dije que iba a esperar a que me escribiera.
Pasó un mes, creo, y hoy ví un chico que se me hacía parecido a un ex suyo a lo que le escribí para preguntarle si era él. Me contestó, me dijo que no seguido del mensaje "No me escribas más". Quedé en shock, no iba a reaccionar, iba a esperar a que se me pasar, pero decidí mandarle un audio de cuatro minutos con la mayor calidad de comunicacion asertiva diciéndole que no quería que ella me escribiera más y que no la iba a elegir más en mi vida porque no me merecía que me trataran así. Que se pusiera en mi lugar y que le agradecía todo lo que hizo por mi pero hasta acá llegué, que le fuera bien en la vida y que la iba a sacar de mis redes sociales.
Podría haberme puesto a decirle que capaz que le molestaba que yo siguiera teniendo contacto con el grupo del rol, o que de seguro no soportaba ser amiga de una persona que haya tenido un intento de auto eliminación (cuando al mes de que salí de la tercera internación ella tuvo pensamientos suicidas también). Le podría haber dicho que me trató como si fuera descartable y que vive todo como un conflicto, que tuvo cero responsabilidad afectiva conmigo y que de seguro necesitaba sacar gente de su vida que le recuerde a su pasado porque no sabe enfrentarlo.
Podría haber descargado toda esa perorata de psicología barata en la que me he especializado. Rara vez me equivoco. Pero no soy así, no puedo decir cosas para herir a alguien que seguramente no está preparada para escuchar.
Por eso descargo este enojo acá, porque sé que nunca lo va a leer.