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Although they usually work side by side, the brothers write and draw the individual stories that make up Love and Rockets separately. Each book typically contains at least two tales. In Gilbert's, the main characters all have some connection to the fictional border town of Palomar; his drawings display a warm voluptuousness clearly influenced by the superhero comics of the '60s that the brothers read as boys. Jaime's plots center on Maggie Chascarrillo, a dreamy woman who drifts in and out of relationships among Los Angeles' grownup punk rockers; his lines and compositions are slim and elegant, though he doesn't shy away from crude cartoonishness when a character's emotional state requires it.
The brothers are excited about the adventures to come. "The type of work we do still isn't done or hasn't been imitated in comics," says Gilbert, 44, "particularly, in our case, using Latinos as a main ingredient." Love and Rockets, Volume II, "is our second wind."
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