#18

Synopsis

A sickness has struck the residents of Palomar. While the moaning Bruja roams the town looking for the skull that was taken from her, newly appointed deputy sheriff Tonantzin patrols the town as a nasty storm approaches. Geraldo comes across the sick hallucinating Guadalupe and picks her up to take her to the doctor. Chelo stops and points a gun at him. He grabs Tonantzin and points a gun at her, but the gun isn't loaded. Luba climbs out of the hole she was in with skull in hand. The Bruja grabs the skull. Soon after, the clouds lift, the sickness goes away and everything goes back to normal.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Epix #11/1987
• En amerikan i Palomar #[nn]
• Pox #5/1989
• Pox #6/1989
• Love and Rockets Library #[2]
• The Complete Love & Rockets #6
• Locas #[nn]
• The Complete Love & Rockets #6
• Love and Rockets Library #[3]
• Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn]
• Locas #2
• Love and Rockets: The Covers #[nn]
• Love and Rockets #2
• Love and Rockets #3
• Love & Rockets #3
• Heartbreak Soup #[2]
• Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection #[3]
• Palomar #1

Credits

Script

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Don Martin

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Don Martin

Colours

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Editor

Gary Groth

Color separations

Mr. Nels

Typesetting

Linda Gorell

Characters

• Errata Stigmata
• Diana Villaseñor
• Martín el Loco
• Maricela
• Ofelia Beltran
• Doralis de los Santos
• Tonantzín Villaseñor
• Casimira de los Santos
• Luba
• Chelo
• Boots Piña
• Archie Ruiz
• La Bruja
• Theo
• Guadalupe
• Terry Downe
• Vicki Glori
• Rena Titañon
• Blanca Rizo
• Danita Lincoln
• Ronnie
• Mrs. Galindo
• Hopey Glass
• Speedy Ortiz
• Penny Century
• Maggie Chascarillo
• Doyle Blackburn