Gilbert Hernandez climaxed his award-winning Palomar series at the end of Love and Rockets' original run by leveling the Central American hamlet. But he soon picked up the story of Luba: The hammer-wielding matriarch had emigrated to the U. S. where she contended not only with an unwelcoming new culture but also her extended family. These America stories - over 80 of them, ranging from quick one-page blackout sketches to graphic novellas--were originally...