History ComicBook / LoveAndRockets

* SouthOfTheBorder: Palomar is in an unnamed Central American country which is almost certainly Mexico.

* BadassGrandpa: Gorgo

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: it's hinted in a couple of the later more naturalistic stories that the early "Maggie the Mechanic" stories were daydreams, or fantasies Maggie made up to entertain Hopey.

Not to be confused with the Music/{{Bauhaus}} spin-off band, although they ''did'' name themselves after this comic.

* MuteButNotSilent: Khamo's ability to speak clearly was lost when he became severely burned. He is only capable of making hissing and rattling sounds, though somehow, his daughter Casimira can translate for him.

The original ''Love And Rockets'' ran for fifty issues before a hiatus began in 1996, during which the brothers worked on other projects mainly spun-off from their ongoing plots. A "Volume 2" series began in 2001 and ran for twenty issues until 2007. In 2008, Los Bros bowed to the move from individual issues to larger bound volumes as the primary medium for art comics, and began an annual "Love and Rockets: New Stories" series in book format.

* ShoutOut: The in-universe ''Professor Enigma'' TV show in volume 3 is a blatant CaptainErsatz of ''Series/DoctorWho''. At one point, the Professor says that he's just had lunch with the Doctor and Professor Franchise/{{Quatermass}}''.

* {{Badass}}: Petra is a kick-boxing expert and severely beats several people she believes are hurting her sister Fritzi (AKA Fritz), [[spoiler:including Fritz's girlfriend Pipo.]]

* ArtShift: Apart from the isolated one in the first issue (see above under ArtEvolution), the major instance throughout "Locas" occurs whenever there are scenes centering on very young children and the adults who interact with them. Jaime typically draws these sequences in a minimalist, gag-a-day NewspaperComic style. The major exception to this is "Browntown," which features a realistic style throughout, suiting the story's dark and ultimately [[{{Tragedy}} tragic]] tone.

* ChainOfHarm: In "Human Diastrophism," the toddler Casimira, exposed to her mother Luba's verbal and physical abuse of her children, starts yelling at and beating up her doll, addressing it by her sisters' names and even her own. Her ten-year-old sister Guadalupe tries in vain to have her cuddle the doll instead.

* HarmfulToMinors: In "Human Diastrophism," the toddler Casimira, exposed to her mother Luba's verbal and physical abuse of her children, starts yelling at and beating up her doll, addressing it by her sisters' names and even her own. Her ten-year-old sister Guadalupe tries in vain to have her cuddle the doll instead, presumably reflecting her own wish that their mother would be more loving.

* RecursiveCanon: A very complicated set of examples. Fritz stars in a gangster film Very Loosely Based on a True Story about the life of her own mother Maria, causing a rift between herself and her sister Luba. Gilbert later launched a series of graphic novels and some stories within the ''New Stories'' series that purported to be adaptations of films in which Fritz and later her great-niece Killer had appeared in-universe, eventually including the Maria one. He took this to even greater Mind Screw dimensions with his serial ''Speak of the Devil'', which has the same title as one of Fritz's in-universe films but, according to Word of God, is the story of the "real" in-universe events that the film was loosely based on.

* LaserGuidedKarma

* RecursiveCanon

** Tonantzin is at first an upbeat, hedonistic sort who dreams of Hollywood stardom. However, after her own lover, Geraldo, takes her hostage in "Duck Feet," she becomes pathologically obsessed with his radical politics, as well as with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt doomsday]] scenarios, dressing like her aboriginal ancestors, and prolonged fasting (after [[MahatmaGandhi Gandhi's]] example). Although she seems to recover, she ends up [[spoiler: committing self-immolation at a political protest in the U.S.]].

* {{Defictionalization}}: Played with. Although Pipo's B-movies ''Chance in Hell'', ''The Troublemakers'', ''Love from the Shadows'' and ''Maria M'', all starring Fritz, aren't ''movies'' in RealLife, Gilbert has issued them as standalone graphic novels.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Many characters walk around barefoot from time to time, which isn't so odd in a place like Palomar. Doralis, however, goes barefoot, indoors and outdoors, even in LA (althouh she does sometimes wear boots as part of her TV show costume).

* WriterRevolt: Jaime can get pretty irate with fans who demand to know when Maggie will get slim again.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens all the time, as characters drift in and out of the story, and "new" characters are often revealed to be old friends and acquaintances of Maggie and Hopey. The most extreme example is Maggie's husband T.C.: we don't even know Maggie is married before she announces she's getting a divorce. T.C. himself is seen for the first time after the divorce announcement, in a story where we learn that he Maggie met for the first time over 15 years earlier, during the early years of the series.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens all the time, as characters drift in and out of the story, and "new" characters are often revealed to be old friends and acquaintances of Maggie and Hopey. The most extreme example is Maggie's husband T.C.: we don't even know Maggie's is married before she announces she's getting a divorce. T.C. himself is seen for the first time after the divorce announcement, in a story where we learn that he Maggie met for the first time over 15 years earlier, during the early years of the series.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens all the time, as characters drift in and out of the story, and "new" characters are often revealed to be old friends and acquaintances of Maggie and Hopey. The most extreme example is Maggie's husband T.C.: we don't even know Maggie's is married before she announces she's getting a divorce. T.C. himself is seen for the first time after the divorce announcement, in a story where we learn that he Maggie met for the first time over 15 years ago, during the early years of the series.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens all the time, as characters drift in and out of the story, and "new" characters are often revealed to be old friends and acquaintances of Maggie and Hopey. The most extreme example is Maggie's husband T.C.: we don't even know Maggie's has married before she announces she's getting a divorce. T.C. himself is seen for the first time after the divorce announcement, in a story where we learn that he Maggie met for the first time over 15 years ago, during the early years of the series.

* HotMom: There's Luba, skinny, raven-haired with G-cup breasts. She has seven kids, and one of her daughters has a child, making Luba a [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave hot grandmother]] as well. Then there's Petra, a Hispanic natural blond with soccer girl legs and hips, large posterior, gargantuan breasts (later surgically reduced to just "big") and an insatiable sexual appetite. And Maria, their glamorous bombshell mother, and Luba's daughter Guadalupe. Guadalupe increases in bust size after giving birth to her second child, since it's only then that the "Maria curse" kicks in. Finally, there's Pipo, not a descendant of Maria but still well-endowed all the same. She's also a [[LipstickLesbian LipstickBisexual]].

* LeftHanging: the final Palomar story at the end of Volume 1 ends with a massive cliffhanger that also appears to be setting up a CrossOver with Jaime's "Locas" stories[[hottip:*:Izzy Ortiz turns up claiming to know the fate of Israel's sister]]. It has still never been resolved or even referred to.

** Luba undergoes a more temporary version of this trope during "Human Diastrophism." The combined stress of romantic troubles, raising four daughters (including a somewhat rebellious teenager), and the presence of a serial killer in town results in wild mood swings and increasingly frequent and violent abuse of her children. This culminates in a breakdown in which she attempts to give her daughters[[hottip:*:except for Maricela, who's already skipped town]] away to their respective fathers and, during a confrontation with Guadalupe, bursts into [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]] at the sight of her most recent ex, Khamo, sporting an aboriginal mohawk.