Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 4 (Vol. 4)  (Love and Rockets)
“Jaime has not only managed to maintain the standard that he set in his Locas stories back in the 1980s and ’90s, at times I would say his work is better than ever.... #4 sees the end of 'The Love Bunglers,' a story that is every bit astragic, funny, and ultimately life-affirmingas one could wish.” (Tony Keen - FA)“As I finished readingLove and Rockets: New Stories#4, I had to sit back and just take a moment to take it all in and collect myself, as I know that I had just completed readingone of the greatest works in comics for 2011....Love and Rockets: New Stories#4 is an achievement for the Brothers Hernandez and has earned a permanent spot on my required reading list for anyone interesting in reading the great works of modern comics creators.” (Ron Richards - iFanboy)“It should go without saying by now that any new volume ofLove and Rocketsis a must for any serious comics fan...New Stories4 is...one of the major events of the comics year...” (Noel Murray - The A.V. Club)“…L&RVol. 3, No. 4, is afantastic, heart-stoppingissue, recalling the best from the series’ past. I love it.” (Charles Hatfield - The Panelists)“Warm-hearted, deceptively heart-wrenching, challenging, charming and irresistibly addictive,Love and Rockets: New Storiesis a grown up comics fan’s dream come true and remains as valid and groundbreaking as its earlier incarnations --the diamond point of the cutting edge of American graphic narrative.” (Win Wiacek - Now Read This!)“Even in a long career of masterpieces, Jaime's story about missed opportunities for happiness isa revelation, while Gilbert continues to cement his place as the Jorodowsky of comics with a vampire tale.” (Publishers Weekly)“Every now and then, if I’m lucky, I might just bump into astone cold masterpiece. The kind of art that makes you just want to shout and scream it is so good. So, in the interest of doing just that, let me say that Jaime Hernandez's 'The Love Bunglers' is such a work…. This is not just Jaime’s finest work, butone of the best… works ever created in the medium.” (Dan Nadel - The Comics Journal)“I’ll freely confess that at the end of the new issue when I saw how Jaime had tied together the fates of Hopey, Maggie, and Ray I started crying like a baby. ...Gilbert’s recent comics have the protean energy and relentless will to reinvention that rivals the Crumb ofWeirdoandHup.” (Jeet Heer - The Comics Journal)“This isincandescentwork. At this point, Jaime Hernandez draws comics better than maybe anyone's ever drawn comics. …[M]y God,what a remarkable comic. I'm so grateful to have read it.” (Tom Spurgeon - The Comics Reporter)“While it’s no surprise that Jaime Hernandez is still producingmagnificent and beautifulcomics, it is also still incredible to see how big his storytelling balls are, man.” (Bob Temuka - The Tearoom of Despair)“…Jaime Hernandez… completes a long-running narrative without grandiose preening, andthe art is full of expression and effortless charm. The final pages speed toward a finish that will satisfy new readers and bring bittersweet conclusion for fans.” (Alex Carr - Omnivoracious (Amazon.com))“The finale of the story Jaime has been telling over the past couple of annual issues is a moment ofbravura comics storytelling, but the buildup to it in the opening portions of this issue is pretty great as well...” (Matthew J. Brady - Warren Peace Sings the Blues)“Symphonic, tragic, revelatory, exciting and devastating as only great art can be, 'The Love Bunglers' isone of the best comics ever made.” (Joe Gross - The Austin American-Statesman)“[Jaime] Hernandez just keeps delivering stories of the highest calibre…. The moments of his characters’ lives that Hernandez chooses to show in the telling of his tales are picked and deployed with such precision it betrays a wisdom and clarity very few storytellers possess, in comics or any other media.Just beautiful.” (Nick Abadzis (Laika))“It reaches emotional heights I rarely encounter when reading comics and was not prepared for.” (Jim Rugg (Afrodisiac))“Jaime Hernandez is my favorite cartoonist. I think he isthe greatest cartoonist of all time. My opinion.... No art moves me the way the work of Jaime Hernandez moves me. I am in awe of his eternal mystery.” (Frank Santoro (Storeyville, Cold Heat))“It goes without saying that 'The Love Bunglers' completely knocked me out…Concise, moving, and incredibly bold, it’s like a cartooning master class in the span of fifty pages, and a tremendous reward to the long-term reader.” (Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Optic Nerve))“Another great issue, with the continuation and ending of 'The Love Bunglers,' from Jaime Hernandez. It'sa real knockout and quite touching... You almost have to remind yourself that, yes, these are characters, not real people! Apparently, nobody told Jaime that the quality of one's work is supposed to go down after working on a strip that long.” (Jason (Low Moon, Werewolves of Montpellier))