{"product_id":"lovers-and-haters-a-love-and-rockets-book-72870","title":"Lovers and Haters: A Love and Rockets Book","description":"From the publisher:\u003cp\u003eIn the next chapter of the Palomar saga, actress Fritz contends with a sex cult, mad scientists, and her inner demons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s High Soft Lisp is torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories, Love and Rockets Vol. IV, and Psychodrama Illustrated—and expanded with 14 new pages!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Lovers and Haters, 50-year-old cult movie actress Fritz, in addition to her alcoholism and the ups and downs of her career, must also contend with a controlling lover, Danny; a jealous rival, Mila; a score of younger Fritz imitators, a sex cult; and mad scientists. Also in her orbit is her niece, Killer (sometimes literally, as seen in a Doctor Who-inspired TV show), a teen actress trying to launch a singing career while solving math problems. The specter of Fritz’s mother, Maria — also a cult movie actress — haunts them all with her beauty from beyond the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a sprawling cast, Lovers and Haters is about mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, complex and often toxic relationships, artists and exploiters, personas and obsessions. It reads like an X-rated The Substance mixed with Mommy Dearest and Performance, with an added dash of giallo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51413151809834,"sku":"72870","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/9798875000980_b33e3.jpg?v=1775853185","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/lovers-and-haters-a-love-and-rockets-book-72870","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}