Love and Rockets #26 Cover (1988)

wow, fantastic cover and very glad to see it popping up here in your collection with how big of a Jaime and Love & Rockets fan I know you are. huge congrats on adding this to your collection, Mark!

You don't see covers from the first run too often these days, great score! 

Spectacular example makes a spectacular addition to your collection.

This comic has nothing to do with the band!

Congratulations on acquiring this, Mark, especially given that it's one of you very favorite covers from Volume One, as well as your favorite cover featuring Maggie! So awesome!

Congrats Mark!  This is epic!  I was just looking at all the vol 1 covers and this was on my "I'd like to have" short list!

Also - love the Jaime self portrait! 

It's a great one with Jaime not afraid to put himself out there as this is seen from his point of view.  Maybe he studied Jan van Eyck in art school.

Magic! Amazing cover!

Quite fun. This is clearly not your John Byrne She-Hulk here ;)

Congrats on this beautiful and significant get.

Stunned! What an amazing centerpiece for your collection. Huge congrats!

Nothing beats a Jaime cover - except perhaps a vintage, first run Jaime cover from the 1980s!  Congratulations and I hope you hang it in a place where you see it everyday.

Wowza! Meta-indeed. And to think I never realised that that was Xaime in the mirror. Duh. Thank you for sharing this memorable piece of alternative comics history.

I love so many things about this cover. Cheers!

Huge get! Amazing piece and piece of history!

I just figured out the wallpaper - LOL!

WOW!

Major congrats on a great cover from the first volume!

Such a memorable cover!  Fantastic

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Wow, amazing acquisition! Huge minus if you're a fan of the band lol.

Wow, amazing acquistion. Congratulations Mark!

Beautiful art! Congratulations, I'm very envious!

Oh, my goodness, Mark...  PHANTASMAGORICAL pick up!!  Good grief, one of the indelible, "I-remember-where-I-was-when-I-first-saw-this" images from this all-time great, favorite series, and I'm thrilled (and hardly surprised :) ) that it has found its way home here, to you.  Yeah, the meta-commentary only -started- with Jaime's inclusion here, right?  The wallpaper really let us wallow in its depths (/ heights...?)  :)  

Jaime's characters are always the best clothed characters in comics, period.  Doesn't matter if they're in a t-shirt and torn jeans or layers and layers of fabric, they're just the BEST CLOTHED, like real human people, always.  It's a key element in the integrity of Jaime's work - a foundation of why Jaime's fictional worlds and characters are the most realistic and relatable.  And Maggie just looks -fantastic- here. I feel like I have to resist saying this same thing on almost every comment I leave on a Jaime piece, but the stylistic, mega-design-oriented approach to the way that he hand-drew his flannel patterns (as a set pattern, immune to clothing folds or body positions) completely exploded my brain at the time.  Still does.  It's not as obvious on this piece as on others (obviously :) ), but every time I see Hernandez flannel, my heart leaps (and the small, reserved dollop of it here perfectly counters the tight lines on her collar and cuffs... just gorgeous execution and design).

And I would be remiss if I didn't mention how hilarious Jaime's rendition of himself is here: frumpy (tummy pooch and all), fatigued, and a bit frustrated with Maggie's insistence on holding that particular pose.  The fly circling his head is the icing on the cake (and is what coaxes the laugh to happen out loud).  Beautiful.

So here's another perfectly balanced, brilliantly composed, highly impactful pieces masterfully rendered in Jaime's sumptuous and impeccable black and white linework.  It's just (as that one band says)..."So Alive".  It'll be a -tough- one to top (but I have complete faith in you, Marc)! :) Sincere congrats, sir - this is as awesome as awesome gets.  

Fantastic acquisition, Mark.