Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

The children in his otherwise rather realistic stories are often drawn to resemble Ketcham's and Jaime's character's often strike very DeCarlo-esque poses. Eventually Hernandez dropped almost all of the sci-fi elements although he does still occasionally include. "I wanted to draw comics my whole life.

Jaime (sometimes spelled Xaime) Hernandez (born 1959) is the co-creator of the independent comic book Love and Rockets (along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario).