Oh, Hello.
25-years-old; Glasgow; culturally destitute since leaving university.
This page, and Ray D’s parallel set of panels on the next, is my Favourite Thing of 2011.
Nothing moved me quite as much this year as Jaime Hernandez’s conclusion to his Love & Rockets arc ‘The Love Bunglers’ (and arguably the conclusion to his whole 20-odd year Locas storyline).
It summarised everything that is truly sublime about his work - the characters, the art, the heart and soul of it all.
It fucked me up, frankly, and I loved every minute of it. I can’t think of a better reason for someone to take on the fairly epic task of reading his work knowing that it ends with such of a beautiful, satisfying series of moments. It’s complete now, and I think part of the tears that blinded me for twenty minutes while reading it came from that realisation.
