#4

Synopsis

Pipo finds out Soledad Marquez has died, then visits her now-officially divorced ex Fritz before taking a flight to Palomar. In a flashback to the time period of the earliest Palomar story, fourteen-year-old Pipo deals with fluctuating interest from Manuel and persistent attention from Soledad. In a teenage pique, she tells Soledad to scare Manuel with an unloaded gun but he winds up killing him. Flash-forward to the mid-to-late nineties post-Palomar period, the now adult and well-off Pipo reconciles with the still-imprisoned Soledad.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story) #[nn]

Credits

Script

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Design

Jacob Covey

Editor and associate publisher

Eric Reynolds

Production

Paul Baresh

Replies

Eric Reynolds

Characters

• Soledad Marquez
• Pipo Jimenez
• Toco
• Max
• Manuel
• Carmen
• Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez
• Borro
• Tipin' Tipin'
• Tiburcia
• Luba
• Mike Tran
• Doyle Blackburn
• Mary Christmas
• Malo
• Hopey Glass
• Del Chimney
• Maggie Chascarillo
• Terry Downe
• Princess Anima
• Lumina
• Katak
• Isla
• The Emperor of Blotos
• Ray Dominguez
• Canicas
• Richy the Second
• Sonny
• Calvin Chascarillo
• Linda
• Chino
• Dora "Killer" Rivera
• Professor Enigma

Other printings & variants

• Fantagraphics Exclusive