It's the giant-sized premiere issue of Los Bros. Hernandez's alternative classic! Love and Rockets #1 introduces Jaime's Maggie and Hopey in "Mechan-X," the story that put the rockets in Love and Rockets. Maggie's cute and skinny, Rand Race is beefy and perfect, and Penny Century is, as always, a knockout! You'll also meet horny devil H.R. Costigan, teenypunksters Maggie and Hopey, and Izzy Reubens both before and after those screws in her head worked themselves loose. Gilbert's "BEM" gives us our first glance at Luba, later to be Palomar's resident hammer-wielding matriarch, here in a strong and sexy incarnation as she tries to turn a tidy profit by bewitching a gigantic land-gobbling monstrosity. "Music for Monsters" features Birdland's Inez and Bang Bang, laser guns in hip holsters, as they cavort through a mysterious desert filled with fantastic creatures, steaming piles of giant monster poop, goofy-looking cyclopes and scary would-be loverboys. Yipes! Wonder why Love and Rockets is still going strong after all these years? L&R #1 says it all. A fanciful slap upside the complacent head of early '80s alternative comics, Los Bros.' initial effort is still unlike anything else.