Jaime and Gilbert Hernandezīs Love & Rockets is the alternative comics success story of the 80īs and 90īs. If the publication of Zap #1 in 1967 "officially" marks the beginning of underground comix, the publication of Love & Rockets #1 in 1982 could be said to "officially" mark the beginning of the ī80īs comics renaissance clumsily called alternative comics. Both Gilbert and Jaime credit the punk rock explosion of the late ī70īs with broadening their horizons and leading them to reflect their personal experience in their comics.