Luba (comic book character)
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"Luba" is a comic book character created by "Los Bros Hernandez", featured mainly in the "Love and Rockets" series by these authors. She first appeared in "Chelo's Burden", running a bath.
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Created by Gilbert Hernandez, Luba was the protaginist for his main contribution to Hernandez Brotehrs groundbreaking indi comic Love And Rockets. Based largely in a small South American village named Palomar, the Luba stories follow the progress of Luba and her ever increasing family through the years.
From the outset Luba is portrayed as a fiery-tempered woman with an eye for younger men. This in conjunction with Jaime Hernandez' 'Maggie and Hopey' tales differentiated Love And Rockets from other comics in that the principle characters were all strong women who whilst being independent were also fallible. Through some twenty odd years Gilbert has taken the character of Luba through her infancy as the illegitimate child of a woman married into organised crime, through to life as a middle-aged migrant to America. The bulk of the Luba tales take place in Palomar where Gilbert developed a rich cast of residents who over the years developed an intricate series of relations with each other.
