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In the epic Human Diastrophism, the only full-length Palomar graphic novel to date, a serial killer stalks the formerly placid Central American hamlet. But the murderer's depredations, ghastly though they may be, are almost negligible compared to the gradual incursion of the modern world into Palomar's bliss--all the way to the story's unforgettable, subtle yet emotionally harrowing climax.

This volume also collects all of Gilbert Hernandez's post-Diastrophism Palomar stories, in which the village copes with the aftermath of these terrible events, and elements from Luba's troubled and violent past return to haunt her. (Her long-lost mother and half-sisters make a few appearances, as well.) And yet through it all, the children abide...>In the epic Human Diastrophism, the only full-length Palomar graphic novel to date, a serial killer stalks the formerly placid Central American hamlet. But the murderer's depredations, ghastly though they may be, are almost negligible compared to the gradual incursion of the modern world into Palomar's bliss--all the way to the story's unforgettable, subtle yet emotionally harrowing climax.

This volume also collects all of Gilbert Hernandez's post-Diastrophism Palomar stories, in which the village copes with the aftermath of these terrible events, and elements from Luba's troubled and violent past return to haunt her. (Her long-lost mother and half-sisters make a few appearances, as well.) And yet through it all, the children abide...>This volume also collects all of Gilbert Hernandez's post-Diastrophism Palomar stories, in which the village copes with the aftermath of these terrible events, and elements from Luba's troubled and violent past return to haunt her. (Her long-lost mother and half-sisters make a few appearances, as well.) And yet through it all, the children abide...>In the epic Human Diastrophism, the only full-length Palomar graphic novel to date, a serial killer stalks the formerly placid Central American hamlet. But the murderer's depredations, ghastly though they may be, are almost negligible compared to the gradual incursion of the modern world into Palomar's bliss--all the way to the story's unforgettable, subtle yet emotionally harrowing climax.

This volume also collects all>This volume also collects all of Gilbert Hernandez's post-Diastrophism Palomar stories, in which the village copes with the aftermath of these terrible events, and elements from Luba's troubled and violent past return to haunt her. (Her long-lost mother and half-sisters make a few appearances, as well.) And yet through it all, the children abide...>This volume also collects all of Gilbert Hernandez's post-Diastrophism Palomar stories, in which the village copes with the aftermath of these terrible events, and elements from Luba's troubled and violent past return to haunt her. (Her long-lost mother and half-sisters make a few appearances, as well.) And yet through it all, the children abide...