Love and Rockets 1982 #21 - back issue - $6.00

Luba done Cubist-style.

A wordless sixteen-panel sequence of a man running into the fourth wall.

Hopey's band La Llorona, on tour about two thousand miles from home, play a gig and then spend the night in a motel. They get kicked off another gig but then find one opening for a speed metal band.

Luba yells at Maricela for arriving home late. Heraclio appraises Humberto's drawings and introduces him to fine artists. Archie offers to marry Luba but she's been married to someone else for fourteen years. Tonantzin's paranoid political obsessions are worrying her sister and friends as they discover she has a letter from the jailed Geraldo Mejia. Ofelia admonishes Luba strongly after she yells at Maricela again. Martin sees some human blood and broken glasses next to a bed in Se?or Munkres's house. Luba goes to an archeological dig to see Chango but comes across her ex-lover Khamo.

Ray mistakenly thinks that Speedy is involved with Maggie after he sees them talking. Speedy, mad that he isn't able to reach Esther, makes love to Blanca as revenge, making her think he's in love with her. Esther, back in town for the weekend, goes to meet Speedy. 'Litos and friends respond to some Dairytown boys driving through their turf by going to their turf in kind. Ray finally hears from Maggie that she isn't involved with Speedy.

Promo ad for The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series). A quote from Jim Shooter's deposition in the Michael Fleisher/TCJ trial is used. Inside back cover.

1st printing: May 1987.

• - Includes contents and credits for the issue. Inside front cover.
• - Letters span 0.6 page on inside front cover, and 0.67 page on page 10. Features letters of comment from Stephen Farenza (West Plains, NY), L. Dietrich Adonis (Philadelphia, PA), P.J. (Security, CO), Jeff Killian (Thoughts and Images' business manager, Seattle, WA), Joel Stelt (Grand Rapids, MI), Chris Duffy (Winchester MA), and Charles Van Meter (Upstate, South Carolina).
• - Next issue blurb and advertisement for: Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #17, #18, #19 and #20; Mechanics (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2: The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2; Anything Goes (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #2 and #4.
• Human Diastrophism - Title page for this story. Page 1 of the full 13-page story in this issue.
• Human Diastrophism Part One - The two white kids who call each other "dude" are not given names until their appearance in the "Love and Rockets X" story that runs in issues #31-39. Pages 2-13 (numbered as such) of the 13-page story in this issue.
• Jerusalem Crickets / Vida Loca - Back cover.