What’s the Big Deal With Gilbert Hernandez? Well, I’ll Tell You.
by Will
A recently published 8-page silly comic Gilbert Hernandez contributed to Dark Horse Presents explains most of what I love about him: it’s whimsical, dark, mostly unexplained, funny and very much HIM. It’s called Dreamstar.
It’s just a trifle, but I really love it! That she spouts aphorisms and flies away, that she battles these ridiculous looking monsters which she seems to be familiar with, that she’s captured her father who was also a superhero, that she has whatever powers are necessary for the moment, that she suddenly has a secret identity, that she goes on a brief spree of making criminals heads EXPLODE. He probably just made up the story as he drew it, but he had fun in every panel. No ham-handed continuity, no humorless violence to fake the idea of depth, no sad autobiographical tale — just fun, fun FUN!
There’s a lot missing from this story — like, oh — a sensible STORY. But what it has is what’s missing from almost every other comic book I’ve ever read! Hooray!
Thank you, Kevin, for pointing it out to me! Kevin shaved his beard yesterday.
Comments
Please write an episode of Sexual Intercourse American Style fan-fiction script where you interrupt an orgy to talk about Gilbert Hernandez.
Also, you failed to point out the biggest Hernandez Bros trademark…gigantic breasts. Curiously, in this example, not nude with no justification.
holy gazongas batman!