Love and Rockets, Vol. 9: Flies on the Ceiling

Love and Rockets #9

by Jaime Hernández

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comix, Romance, Fantasy

122 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 1991

About the author

Jaime and his brother Gilbert Hernández mostly publish their separate storylines together in Love And Rockets and are often referred to as 'Los Bros Hernandez'.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

¡¡¡INCREDIBLE!!!

This is almost all Jaime whose work I began to enjoy more than Gilbert's Palomar starting here and moving forward.

[D.M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A volume with a title like this and a cover like this, you'd think it was going to explore the mystery that is Izzy. No dice. The title story is only the first one, reveals only a tiny fraction of her backstory, and the rest of Jaime's work in the book is devoted to advancing the lives of previously-background characters like Doyle, Danita & Ray.
The contributions from Gilbert (I think this is the last volume in this set to include both Bros.) are...odd. He offers no Palomar stories, but a brief bio on Frida Kahlo is interesting if dry, and his other pieces tend toward the abstract & non-narrative. He catches up in the next volume, though.
Not what I'd call groundbreaking, but it does fill in some blanks that probably didn't need to be filled.

[Sara Padilla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book so much. Jaime Hernandez combines Chicano culture with comic book super-modernity that really grabbed my imagination as a teen. This volume in particular marks a sort of turning point, away from the Mechanics era's fixations with style and started to really explore the characters, especially Izzy's.

[Tab · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read Maggie the Mechanic recently, I really wanted to know more about crazy Izzy. Unfortunately, she's only featured in the opening story. Then the story goes back to Maggie and Hopey's relationship.

[Will Hines · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jaime's reveal of how Izzy went insane while in Mexico is one of my favorite comic stories of all time. It's only like 10 pages with minimal dialogue -- but YOU find a more gutsy story and come back here to tell me about it.

[Rob · Rating 5 out of 5]

the bomb.

[The Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ends the one-two-three punch that also includes The Death of Speedy and Blood of Palomar (with a whimper, not a bang). Jaime Hernandez does his best to give everybody the heebie jeebies.

[Dean · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one was very dark and brooding,and also very well written. I reccomend this one to anyone who says that Comic books are not literature..it will change your mind.