Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets will finally be released in its most accessible form yet: a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the small Central American town, beginning with the groundbreaking Sopa de Gran Pena (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children), and continuing on through modern-day classics.