Luba’s Comics and Stories

    (Fantagraphics, 2004-2005)
™ and © Fantagraphics Books, Inc.

It’s not only that this latest installment of Luba doesn’t provide a crumb of a clue to new readers as to what’s going on and who’s doing what to whom. Even those who have been faithfully following the saga of Luba, her siblings, children, and their many, many lovers for (could it possibly be?) decades now will likely find themselves entirely at sea.

Here narrative linear storytelling gets chucked out the window so the author can play with time, space, fantasy. and reality and we visit a cross-section of his unruly cast of characters over the course of an evening, the focus frantically shifting from perspective to perspective. There’s not much of a plot, just bits of sex, drugs, and female nudity tenuously connected by some specious points about the meaning of life, making it read like a pretentious foreign movie. Even someone with the talent of Gilbert Hernandez can’t pull off this limp half-baked experiment in storytelling that’s too clever by half for its own good.

— S.A. Bennett
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