Professor Enigma

Gilbert Hernandez conjured Professor Enigma into the rich, sprawling world of Love and Rockets with a 2015 debut in New Stories #7 — arriving deep in the Modern Age of one of alternative comics' most celebrated ongoing sagas. Fantagraphics' flagship series has always been a place where the strange and the human collide, and with a name like Professor Enigma, this character fits that tradition beautifully. Sharing pages with beloved Hernandez regulars like Fritz, Terry Downe, and Lumina, Professor Enigma moves through some genuinely compelling company across Love and Rockets and New Stories. A compact but intriguing presence with just five catalog appearances, this is exactly the kind of quietly mysterious figure that rewards the dedicated reader who follows every corner of the Hernandez brothers' endlessly inventive universe.