Subject Matter
Genres:
drama, romantic
Character(s):
Juan; Nurse; Señora Ortiz (Joselito's future bride); Javier; Ruben; Armando Jose (Luba's baby, single-panel); Doctor/Doc (single-panel); Señor Salas Sr. [Fausto Salas]; Señor Paz (dies); Ramona Garza
First Line:
...Just like I told you a dozen times, Captain Ortiz
Synopsis:
After the previous chapter's shootout, Peter, Blas, Ortiz and others sort out what happened. Ex-addict Luba continues her affair with Ortiz and refuses to believe she's pregnant. Luba relapses and injects herself incorrectly, winding up at the hospital. She seemingly miscarriages, but the baby survives and is taken by Javier without Luba or Peter knowing. Fermin strangles Ortiz for his affair with Luba. In a late 50's flashback, Fermin and Peter lead a musical combo. Maria has affairs with Fermin, Garza and Peter, all the while yearning to find out the whereabouts of her missing daughter Luba.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
11
Notes:
Part eight of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria. In one of the panels of the 1950s flashback, Garza congratulates Fausto for his supposed orchestration of a massacre of leftists, a reference to events in Poison River part two.
The artwork is page numbered eighty-three to ninety-three.