Love and Rockets 1982 #36 - back issue - $6.00
After the previous chapter's shootout, Peter, Blas, Ortiz and others sort out what happened. Ex-addict Luba continues her affair with Ortiz and refuses to believe she's pregnant. Luba relapses and injects herself incorrectly, winding up at the hospital. She seemingly miscarriages, but the baby survives and is taken by Javier without Luba or Peter knowing. Fermin strangles Ortiz for his affair with Luba. In a late 50's flashback, Fermin and Peter lead a musical combo. Maria has affairs with Fermin, Garza and Peter, all the while yearning to find out the whereabouts of her missing daughter Luba.
Joey is fed up that everyone thinks he's responsible for Hopey's face being on the missing persons section of milk cartons. After making several calls he finally realizes that Izzy did it and goes to her house to confront her, but she's not there. Izzy checks out of a psychiatric clinic after deciding she didn't need to be there, goes home and tears down the dozens of milk carton pictures of Hopey that she had on the wall. Back on the East Coast, Maya meets her friends at a bar and finds out Hopey has been at Jewel Tucker's place this whole time.
Junior Brooks, E. T. and Erf'Quake wait outside of the Hollywood party but many if not most of the white guests freak out just because of their skin color. Sean and Steve attempt to make love to Maricela and Riri respectively, but both fail in their own particular way. Maricela heads home and reaffirms her love to Riri. Scott, Petra and Fritz come across an abandoned car wreck, which turns out to be Gerry's car. The driver unbenownst to them was Steve, who is bloodied and walking near the road.
- Contents/Staff/Letters - Letters from Evan Dorkin, J. E. Alzona, Andy Pataky. Also includes production credits, table of contents, indicia and a panel from the Love and Rockets X story inside.
- Poison River - Part 8 - Part eight of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria. In one of the panels of the 1950s flashback, Garza congratulates Fausto for his supposed orchestration of a massacre of leftists, a reference to events in Poison River part two. The artwork is page numbered eighty-three to ninety-three.
- Love and Rockets X - Part 6 - The artwork is page numbered thirty-two to thirty-six.
- - Back cover.
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