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A case could be made for the Hernandez Bros as the greatest thing in contemporary comics. I never get tired of reading their work, prolific though they are.
Figuring out the Love and Rockets reading list through various editions is just insanely complex (and Fantagraphics' supposed handy guide "How to Read Love and Rockets" on their site isn't much help, as it only covers the current editions).
I. Love and Rockets vol. 1, original issues #1-50, 1981-1996), are collected in two big hardcover omnibuses and one smaller paperback:
1. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories. (2003). Collects all of Gilbert's Palomar/Luba stories from LR I.
2. Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories. (2004). Collects all of Jaime's Maggie and Hopey stories from LR I.
3. Amor Y Cohetes [paperback 2008] (collects all non-Locas and Palomar comics from L&R I)

II. Love and Rockets vol. 2: New Stories (eight original annual 100-page issues, 2008-2016) is collected in:
1. Luba (2009). collects Gilbert's Luba in America, Luba: The Book of Ofelia, and Luba: Three Daughters.
2. Locas II: Maggie, Hopey and Ray. (2009). Collects Jaime's Locas in Love, Dicks and Deedees, Ghost of Hoppers, and The Education of Hopey Glass.
3. God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls (2012) has Jaime's individual stories from the first two vols of New Stories (plus 30 new pages of comics).
4. The Love Bunglers (2014) has Jaime's stories from vols 3 and 4 of New Stories.

III. Love and Rockets vol. 3: In 2017, Love & Rockets came back as a new ongoing series (36-page quarterly original issues):
So far uncollected.

IV. Fritz B Movies Books (These original, standalone graphic novels were never serialized in Love and Rockets. Each is a metafictional, hard-boiled “B movie” starring Gilbert’s actress character, Fritz.)
1. Chance in Hell
2. The Troublemakers
3. Love from the Shadows
4. Maria M.
5. Garden of the Flesh