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Love and Rockets #24
La educación de Hopey Glass
Maggie está casi ausente en esta última recopilación de Love and Rockets ya que Jaime Hernandez se centra en Hopey, la amiga de toda la vida de Maggie, y en su ex novio Ray. Y además, un vasto reparto de secundarios: Grace, el otro amigo de Hopey; Elmer, un electrificante autoproyecto de gánster; el callejero y endurecido Doyle; la divertida ?Ángel de Tarzana?; la madura pero aún marchosa Terry, así como la misteriosa superheroína Alarma.
En una de las dos principales líneas argumentales, Ray persigue a la peligrosa y molesta ?Voz de rana?, aspirante a actriz y perpetuo desastre, por bares de mala muerte, callejones y convenciones de comics... Siempre a la espera de una última e inesperada consumación. Mientras, en ?Día a día con Hopey?, Jaime demuestra su maestría a la hora de representar el pálpito de la vida cotidiana en el retrato de Hopey luchando con su nuevo empleo y los amantes que van y vienen. Una semana más en la galopante educación de Hopey Glass.
En una de las dos principales líneas argumentales, Ray persigue a la peligrosa y molesta ?Voz de rana?, aspirante a actriz y perpetuo desastre, por bares de mala muerte, callejones y convenciones de comics... Siempre a la espera de una última e inesperada consumación. Mientras, en ?Día a día con Hopey?, Jaime demuestra su maestría a la hora de representar el pálpito de la vida cotidiana en el retrato de Hopey luchando con su nuevo empleo y los amantes que van y vienen. Una semana más en la galopante educación de Hopey Glass.
132 pages, Hardcover
First published April 17, 2008
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264 books454 followersJaime and his brother Gilbert Hernández mostly publish their separate storylines together in Love And Rockets and are often referred to as 'Los Bros Hernandez'.
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March 30, 2024
La serie es una jodida maravilla. Un compendio de genialidad y saber hacer. Un dibujo maravilloso. Este nuevo álbum lo vuelve a refrendar. Que lujo leerlo por primera vez.
June 15, 2020
Enjoyable volume that despite the name, is only half about Hopey. I enjoy my forays into the L+R universe that always seems vast enough that I can't remember what I've read before and which characters I know well.
September 5, 2014
The "Hopey Glass" compilation is actually a combination of two people, Hopey and Ray, transitioning from their freewheeling punk past into adulthood and looking for love.
Unfortunately the ones they pursue for love are always vanishing from them like evaporating spirits, with the irony being that both are ex-lovers of Maggie, whom both simultaneously desire but spurn. The lesbian relationships in the Hopey section are as out as it gets in graphic novels, so if you're into Queer Lit you'll probably enjoy this.
The character Vivian Frogmouth is introduced in the Ray section, and she might very well be the most offbeat femme fatale noir character created in years: a harsh, ignorant, trashy stripper who acts like a divining rod for every violent crime in her neighborhood. Jaime Hernandez drives the voodoo down.
Unfortunately the ones they pursue for love are always vanishing from them like evaporating spirits, with the irony being that both are ex-lovers of Maggie, whom both simultaneously desire but spurn. The lesbian relationships in the Hopey section are as out as it gets in graphic novels, so if you're into Queer Lit you'll probably enjoy this.
The character Vivian Frogmouth is introduced in the Ray section, and she might very well be the most offbeat femme fatale noir character created in years: a harsh, ignorant, trashy stripper who acts like a divining rod for every violent crime in her neighborhood. Jaime Hernandez drives the voodoo down.
April 30, 2015
Tengo la vaga sensación de que me he leído esto antes de tiempo, así que me falta un poco de contexto, pero bueno.
No sé, es Love and Rockets, así que me gusta un montón. Es algo así como la reseña más vaga del planeta pero es que tiene un no-se-qué super especial para mí y cualquier historia, por cortita que sea, me atrapa un montón. Lo que pasa es que, no sé, si me compro un libro sobre Hopey, pues, quizás.......... espero............ leer sobre Hopey, ya sabes. Así que la segunda mitad del cómic ha perdido mi interés por completo. Pero por lo demás, jo, qué cosa más cuqui y agradable.
No sé, es Love and Rockets, así que me gusta un montón. Es algo así como la reseña más vaga del planeta pero es que tiene un no-se-qué super especial para mí y cualquier historia, por cortita que sea, me atrapa un montón. Lo que pasa es que, no sé, si me compro un libro sobre Hopey, pues, quizás.......... espero............ leer sobre Hopey, ya sabes. Así que la segunda mitad del cómic ha perdido mi interés por completo. Pero por lo demás, jo, qué cosa más cuqui y agradable.
June 6, 2008
the hernandez brothers have developed some of the most fully-realized, kick-ass female characters - not only in comics, but in literature as a whole. one of the coolest things about these characters is that we've seen them grow up, and they've done it in a totally realistic way. i can't say enough good things about their comics. if you haven't read them you're missing out.
October 30, 2008
Reading L&R always makes me want to prance around in my underwear, because all of the hot girls do that. This newest collection was aces, especially in the Hopey arena - always my favorite gal. I got a little choked up seeing Hopey as a teacher (assistant!) - known these ladies so long and so well that they feel more real to me than any literary character.
March 28, 2008
In these "Locas" stories, Ray pursues the train-wreck bombshell "Frogmouth"; an eventful week in the life of Hopey; and Maggie, off stage but visible as Ray's resentful ex and (forever and still) Hopey's best friend.
July 15, 2008
You can never have too much Hopey. Indeed, this collection could have benefitted from more Hopey and less Ray/Frogmouth/Maggie drama. Just sayin'.
June 12, 2011
My favorite Hernandez character is Hopey, so I was excited about a book that would just be focused on Hopey, but then half of this book ended up being about Ray. Boo.
April 4, 2019
What isn't there to love?
And rockets, like mind-fucks and murders, helped the recent putt-putt plot pushing muster some shove!
Jaime has a great feel for his readers' interest in his work and wisely tunes it, with panache, to keep us attentive and eager.
Comparing Los Bros is exhausting but:
He does nearly the opposite of Beto who beats and bahoozles around his own bushes oppressively burdening readers with boundless assininity without appropriate consideration of aspect or appeal. He must be entranced by the usually-poisonous potion that ego and admiration can ferment which makes a writer THINK that people will look back on his titivated blubbering throughout trite voyages of over-ambitious hysteria and call him a visionary*.
Jaime suffers not from hubris- he humors his audience with what they want now which will, as all excellent work does, be admired in retrospect AS WELL.
What becomes of Sid and Frogmouth?
Will Ray ever get laid with that gross lip-sweater?
Is Esperanza becoming an adult or waiting hopefully for the right reason to re-lapse?
_______________________________
Back to Beto: Most who laud him (post-2000) as brilliant are either trying to make you think, along with themselves, that they're on some higher plain of understanding or faking it as part of the industry's hype machine. I'll always try to wrap my head around praise from a wise professor of these arts as long as they can also speak objectively but once anything needs the highest caliber of expertise for appreciation it has failed as art and become something dry. Even if it's soaked in semen.
And rockets, like mind-fucks and murders, helped the recent putt-putt plot pushing muster some shove!
Jaime has a great feel for his readers' interest in his work and wisely tunes it, with panache, to keep us attentive and eager.
Comparing Los Bros is exhausting but:
He does nearly the opposite of Beto who beats and bahoozles around his own bushes oppressively burdening readers with boundless assininity without appropriate consideration of aspect or appeal. He must be entranced by the usually-poisonous potion that ego and admiration can ferment which makes a writer THINK that people will look back on his titivated blubbering throughout trite voyages of over-ambitious hysteria and call him a visionary*.
Jaime suffers not from hubris- he humors his audience with what they want now which will, as all excellent work does, be admired in retrospect AS WELL.
What becomes of Sid and Frogmouth?
Will Ray ever get laid with that gross lip-sweater?
Is Esperanza becoming an adult or waiting hopefully for the right reason to re-lapse?
_______________________________
Back to Beto: Most who laud him (post-2000) as brilliant are either trying to make you think, along with themselves, that they're on some higher plain of understanding or faking it as part of the industry's hype machine. I'll always try to wrap my head around praise from a wise professor of these arts as long as they can also speak objectively but once anything needs the highest caliber of expertise for appreciation it has failed as art and become something dry. Even if it's soaked in semen.
March 28, 2018
Two novella-length stories in this book - long-time Jaime heroine Hopey gets a job as a teacher's assistant, and we follow her day-by-day in the week leading up to and including her first day on the job. Romance, friendship, frustration, doubt, laughter, heartbreak ... it's a Jaime Hernandez story, so it does all of that beautifully and organically. Just a wonderful story.
The second tale is of Maggie's ex, Ray, and his burgeoning relationship with Vivian, the frogmouth (so dubbed because her voice is "like metal scraping on concrete.") All of Viv's hang-ups are seen through Ray's eyes, but Ray is distracted by his continuing fascination with Maggie, so it's not a pretty portrait of Viv, yet Jaime still gives us moments that round out the character. Viv's one of his more complicated protagonists, and it was another well-done piece that got into her history and also did some interesting stuff with Maggie's new girlfriend Angel.
The second tale is of Maggie's ex, Ray, and his burgeoning relationship with Vivian, the frogmouth (so dubbed because her voice is "like metal scraping on concrete.") All of Viv's hang-ups are seen through Ray's eyes, but Ray is distracted by his continuing fascination with Maggie, so it's not a pretty portrait of Viv, yet Jaime still gives us moments that round out the character. Viv's one of his more complicated protagonists, and it was another well-done piece that got into her history and also did some interesting stuff with Maggie's new girlfriend Angel.
February 22, 2019
I checked this out thinking it a was a collection of earlier Love and Rockets stuff, but it's from the newer era - the 'Education' being Hopey's trying on a student teacher job...that ends up being a small part of the whole thing, and there's a lot of Maggie & Angel hanging at comic book parties, and Vivian & Ray. I enjoyed it, but I've read a lot of Love and Rockets at this point, most of it the newer stuff, and really wanted to know more about Hopey... this wasn't the place so I'm gonna have to finally read the original books.
June 23, 2024
Volvemos al universo de “Love & Rockets” (Beto y Jaime Hernández) del mejor indi americano y mejor cómic post underground. Un universo imprescindible si te gusta el cómic… y si no, también! Buena excusa para empezar en este mundillo!! @LaCupulaComic
August 14, 2019
I'm kind of enjoying reading Jaime's L&R stories out of order, but someday I want to go back and read the whole thing from the beginning.
July 14, 2023
Another banger by Jaime Hernández
February 6, 2016
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This final collection of Jaime's "Locas" stories from Love and Rockets (vol. 2) begins with Hopey buying a pair of eyeglasses and, later, noting that everybody, seen through her new glasses, looks a whole lot older. So it seems that Hopey is finally growing up (just as Maggie did in Ghost of Hoppers). Although she hasn't quit her bartending job, Hopey is becoming a teacher's assistant at a small preschool--a job that I wouldn't have picked for her if it were the last available job on earth, frankly. But she takes to it pretty well--after a few minor mishaps and several instances of second guessing. She even quits smoking for the sake of the little tykes. In many ways, though, she's the same old Hopey, and her live-in girlfriend, Rosie, seems to have had enough.
Meanwhile, Jaime reintroduces Ray and his quest to hook up with the Frogmouth, Vivian. Running into her at a party, Ray momentarily steps away while she argues with Sid in a back alley only to catch a glimpse of Maggie--his old flame from Hoppers. As his frustratingly platonic relationship with Vivian develops over the next few days, it also seems to revolve entirely around Maggie. The initially awkward reunion of the old couple finally occurs, appropriately enough, at a comic convention after-party--with a little extra encouragement from Maggie's new friend Angel.
At one point Ray mentions that he and Maggie broke up "17 years ago" and I realized--with a bit of a shock--that I've lived with these characters for nearly 20 years now. One downside to reading a collected volume (versus reading the stories in comic book form, month by month) is that a great deal of the stories' power lies in the day-to-day atmosphere that they generate when you read them in brief installments over time. I truly hope that reading the entire Love and Rockets library for the first time--in the span of just a few days, weeks, or months--doesn't diminish the simmering, cumulative effect that these stories are capable of having on readers. The longevity of Love and Rockets is beneficial--and unique--in this way. Characters like Superman or Spider-Man have been around for much longer, but these characters have not grown in the way that Maggie and Hopey have since they first appeared 1982. As we enter the third era of Love and Rockets material (presented in the new series called Love and Rockets: New Stories), I look forward to spending at least another 20 years with my imaginary pals, Maggie and Hopey.
This final collection of Jaime's "Locas" stories from Love and Rockets (vol. 2) begins with Hopey buying a pair of eyeglasses and, later, noting that everybody, seen through her new glasses, looks a whole lot older. So it seems that Hopey is finally growing up (just as Maggie did in Ghost of Hoppers). Although she hasn't quit her bartending job, Hopey is becoming a teacher's assistant at a small preschool--a job that I wouldn't have picked for her if it were the last available job on earth, frankly. But she takes to it pretty well--after a few minor mishaps and several instances of second guessing. She even quits smoking for the sake of the little tykes. In many ways, though, she's the same old Hopey, and her live-in girlfriend, Rosie, seems to have had enough.
Meanwhile, Jaime reintroduces Ray and his quest to hook up with the Frogmouth, Vivian. Running into her at a party, Ray momentarily steps away while she argues with Sid in a back alley only to catch a glimpse of Maggie--his old flame from Hoppers. As his frustratingly platonic relationship with Vivian develops over the next few days, it also seems to revolve entirely around Maggie. The initially awkward reunion of the old couple finally occurs, appropriately enough, at a comic convention after-party--with a little extra encouragement from Maggie's new friend Angel.
At one point Ray mentions that he and Maggie broke up "17 years ago" and I realized--with a bit of a shock--that I've lived with these characters for nearly 20 years now. One downside to reading a collected volume (versus reading the stories in comic book form, month by month) is that a great deal of the stories' power lies in the day-to-day atmosphere that they generate when you read them in brief installments over time. I truly hope that reading the entire Love and Rockets library for the first time--in the span of just a few days, weeks, or months--doesn't diminish the simmering, cumulative effect that these stories are capable of having on readers. The longevity of Love and Rockets is beneficial--and unique--in this way. Characters like Superman or Spider-Man have been around for much longer, but these characters have not grown in the way that Maggie and Hopey have since they first appeared 1982. As we enter the third era of Love and Rockets material (presented in the new series called Love and Rockets: New Stories), I look forward to spending at least another 20 years with my imaginary pals, Maggie and Hopey.
June 14, 2008
I haven't read the entirety of Love and Rockets, but from what I can tell, the Hernandez Bros. plateaued artistically somewhere in the mid-90s, and their draftsmanship and writing style hasn't progressed at all since. This makes it all the more impressive that their level of craft is so high, it still manages to astound me. (As opposed to, say, Steve Rude, whose stagnation is still pretty to look at, but not really inspiring.) I am particularly amazed by how well Jaime moves around on a page, the different angles he shows of one character from panel to panel as his or her mood or situation changes, the psychology of his framing.
It is also a testament to how interesting his characters are that they are still so compelling. I guess they've aged in real time. Ray makes mention of being in his 40s, and Maggie is looking like a woman in her late 30s. Yet, their day-to-day lives are still the fodder for great fiction. The opening strip of this book even follows Hopey over a week and a half or so, dividing each strip from one day to the next.
I actually wish I had read these stories in the original comics, because I would appreciate Jaime's construction all the more. He tells long stories that are broken into shorter strips, sometimes only one or two pages, and yet sometimes picking up mere seconds after the last one ended. Presumably these are spread over several issues, where they might appear somewhat disjointed, but put together in a book, they form a flawless narrative.
Ingenious.
It is also a testament to how interesting his characters are that they are still so compelling. I guess they've aged in real time. Ray makes mention of being in his 40s, and Maggie is looking like a woman in her late 30s. Yet, their day-to-day lives are still the fodder for great fiction. The opening strip of this book even follows Hopey over a week and a half or so, dividing each strip from one day to the next.
I actually wish I had read these stories in the original comics, because I would appreciate Jaime's construction all the more. He tells long stories that are broken into shorter strips, sometimes only one or two pages, and yet sometimes picking up mere seconds after the last one ended. Presumably these are spread over several issues, where they might appear somewhat disjointed, but put together in a book, they form a flawless narrative.
Ingenious.
June 26, 2008
This is a good starting point (i.e. "The Complete Love & Rockets Vol. 22") for new readers of Hernandez brothers comics. Jaime Hernandez's flagship characters, Maggie and Hopey, are moving into middle age. This transition from 80s punks to semi-responsible adults marks new territory and explores different characters and themes. It is a good entry point for those who don't want to (and shouldn't) start 21 volumes back at "Music for Mechanics."
In "The Education of Hopey Glass", punk girls Maggie and Hopey grow up to become landlord and teaching assistant, respectively. Hopey jerks several people around and still manages to be lovable. Ray still pines after Maggie years after their breakup. He also has a brush with gangsters thanks to his seedy friends and new love interest, Frogmouth Vivian, the submissive moll who likes to give and receive all sorts of abuse.
Jaime Hernandez writes about lower & lower middle class Mexican-Americans around LA, female wrestling, and 80s California punks.
Gilbert Hernandez writes mainly about Palomar, a fictional Central/South American village and its poor but vibrant inhabitants. His works are influenced by literature, sci-fi, telenovelas, and soft core porn.
The brothers typically alternate authoring volumes of "The Complete Love & Rockets."
In "The Education of Hopey Glass", punk girls Maggie and Hopey grow up to become landlord and teaching assistant, respectively. Hopey jerks several people around and still manages to be lovable. Ray still pines after Maggie years after their breakup. He also has a brush with gangsters thanks to his seedy friends and new love interest, Frogmouth Vivian, the submissive moll who likes to give and receive all sorts of abuse.
Jaime Hernandez writes about lower & lower middle class Mexican-Americans around LA, female wrestling, and 80s California punks.
Gilbert Hernandez writes mainly about Palomar, a fictional Central/South American village and its poor but vibrant inhabitants. His works are influenced by literature, sci-fi, telenovelas, and soft core porn.
The brothers typically alternate authoring volumes of "The Complete Love & Rockets."
April 17, 2009
In this perfect confluence of stunning illustration and gripping narrative, Hernandez returns to his early Love & Rockets roots with aging punk-rocker Esperanza Hopey Glass taking the spotlight in this collection's first half. Day by Day with Hopey chronicles a week in the feisty Latina's life as she transitions from tending bar to teaching kindergarten while her low-rent personal life teems with girlfriends who come and go, her lifelong friend and sometime-lover Maggie the only constant. In terms of action or intrigue, not much happens, but Hernandez spins narrative gold from the mundane straw of his protagonist's existence, as Hopey's awkward romantic and social tribulations add more layers to her complex character. The second half features Ray Dominguez, Maggie's long-ago boyfriend, now in his early 407s and still carrying a torch for her. Ray finds himself caught up in a pulp fiction maelstrom hinging on the fallout from a murder and his lust for the gorgeous but borderline-psychotic Vivian, an aspiring actress also known as Frogmouth, who has her own history with Maggie. Fraught with grimy intrigue that evokes a Chicano Mickey Spillane yarn, the second half of the book comes as an unexpected and pleasant surprise that rivets both old fans and newcomers to the page.
November 23, 2009
Jaime Hernandez' work has been part of my consciousness ever since my brain emerged from childhood. I think if I had paid more attention to Love and Rockets when I was in my teens, I would have become a very different person. I loved it, of course, but always refused to latch on to the weird yearning it ignited in me, probably for fear of where it would take me. Now, as a woman in my thirties who reads things like Hopey Glass while sitting on the couch in her jammies, trying to ignore a football game, I realize exactly how powerful his illustration and storytelling is, and how he can - with a single panel - refresh my entire take on what constitutes beauty and sex and relationships.
The book is divided between two characters: I far prefer the Hopey stories to the more melodramatic Ray's, but both convey a rich subtext and create an incredibly believable, familiar cast of people. Readers who were devoted to the Locas characters from Love and Rockets(Latinas from the L.A. punk scene) will be spending time with old friends.
The book is divided between two characters: I far prefer the Hopey stories to the more melodramatic Ray's, but both convey a rich subtext and create an incredibly believable, familiar cast of people. Readers who were devoted to the Locas characters from Love and Rockets(Latinas from the L.A. punk scene) will be spending time with old friends.
November 29, 2012
The last Locas *wails* well until Love and Rockets II, though that seems much more about the superheros and much less punk lesbian angst. I have to say I found this one the weakest of any of the books so far. I truly love Hopey and it was WONDERFUL to get to see her at the centre of a storyline, though in a way sad to see that despite the promising ending of the last book she'd still not figured out her relationship with Maggie and was still flirting with substitutes. Even though she's aged she's still gorgeous and I loved the little glimpse of her life. The 2nd half of the book was a Ray story about him and the "frogmouth" who'd spent the last book kissing Maggie. I'm probably biased cause I just never cared much for Ray but the story was about the murder of Frogmouth's horrible boyfriend and I had a hard time caring. There was a really cute bit when they find Maggie at a comic convention, but overall I felt it was lacking. The book just didn't have the deep personal level that the last one did, or any of the sureality. Now I need to decide if I should Gilbert's books a chance...
June 15, 2008
I have a great guide from Fantagraphic Books and it indicates that I should not start out reading Love & Rockets by beginning with this book. In fact, I did read a few of the Hernandez Bros. comics in the 80's while in high school but the enjoyment was ruined for me when a friend co-opted them as her "thing." Other things that were ruined for me in high school include Doc Martins (after the trendy girls started wearing them), the Village (after every girl from Jersey learned how to take the PATH train there), and the Red Hot Chili Peppers(because Mother's Milk was only the first step towards full blown commercialism for those guys). Anyway, I liked this book but felt like I needed to start at the beginning of the series because there was a whole lot happening that I didn't get. Plus, I was surprised to learn that Maggie grew up. I plan to read Locas next and see if if changes my ranking of this book.
July 24, 2008
This is the latest collected volume in the long-running history of the finest American comic strip since Pogo and Peanuts. Jaime Hernandez' old punk characters from Huerta, California, are now in their forties and adulthood is at last catching up with them. Hopey and Ray Dominguez find the transition from perpetual adolescence to maturity painful and difficult, and some of their friends (like the seemingly doomed Doyle Blackburn) are hopelessly stuck in their ancient patterns. Oddly enough, the most successful and mature of the gang seems to be Hopey's ex-girlfriend Terry Downe, the one time villainness.
The story is complex, compassionate, and believable, the dialogue is funny and realistic, and nearly all of the characters are three-dimensional. There is some great drawing here, too, as always with Jaime.
This book isn't perfect; at least one major new character doesn't really work, and in some cases Jaime's drawing looks a little sloppy and rushed. But this is still better than any other comic book collection out there, and most so-called major novels, too.
The story is complex, compassionate, and believable, the dialogue is funny and realistic, and nearly all of the characters are three-dimensional. There is some great drawing here, too, as always with Jaime.
This book isn't perfect; at least one major new character doesn't really work, and in some cases Jaime's drawing looks a little sloppy and rushed. But this is still better than any other comic book collection out there, and most so-called major novels, too.
May 21, 2010
I've been reading the Love and Rockets books from the '80's by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. This is a more recently published book by Jaime. This book was published in 2006 and has some great artwork by Jaime.
The first half of the book is about a young lesbian named Hopey Glass, who gets a job as a teaching assistant at an elementary school. In dealing with the children, she is reminded of events in her own childhood that she must now confront. I found this part of the book interesting, funny and poignant.
The second half of the book was about a 40 something guy and his relationship with a few interesting and somewhat dark characters. I couldn't help but wonder if this part of the book was somewhat autobiographical.
Overall, loved the book. Love the Hernandez brothers.
The first half of the book is about a young lesbian named Hopey Glass, who gets a job as a teaching assistant at an elementary school. In dealing with the children, she is reminded of events in her own childhood that she must now confront. I found this part of the book interesting, funny and poignant.
The second half of the book was about a 40 something guy and his relationship with a few interesting and somewhat dark characters. I couldn't help but wonder if this part of the book was somewhat autobiographical.
Overall, loved the book. Love the Hernandez brothers.
June 7, 2008
I've been reading Love and Rockets since 1996, when Keith moved out of the house and I found a stack of those comics in his closet. I think by 1996 I was coming to Love and Rockets kind of late.
About half of this book are stories of Hopey in the week before her new job as a teacher's assistant. The other half is more about Maggie, but really about her ex-boyfriend Ray and told from his perspective.
It's interesting to see these characters grown up and at least a bit more mature.
About half of this book are stories of Hopey in the week before her new job as a teacher's assistant. The other half is more about Maggie, but really about her ex-boyfriend Ray and told from his perspective.
It's interesting to see these characters grown up and at least a bit more mature.
May 10, 2013
Although finding and reading through Love and Rockets sequentially is a challenge, I am always astounded at how well Los Bros Hernandez are able to portray the lives of their characters both with words and simple drawings. They do a better job than almost any other comic writers and illustrators at showing the day-in, day-out realities of queer women and other characters with various intersecting identities and personalities. The nudity, sex, and violence all strike me as realistic and not glamourized or placed for the sake of objectification or mere erotic gaze appeal.
July 7, 2008
What can you say at a certain point, especially after having read a lot of these? Um, it's still good. This focuses a little much on Ray, given the title, but it's not as though I don't like him as a character. The opening story, which follows Hopey's embarkation on a new career as a teacher's assistant, is pretty great stuff, swinging from hypertension to the totally mundane, all within a space of seven days.
August 7, 2010
Oh, Hopey. My favorite foulmouthed raging id, a teacher ('s assistant)? Also, I'm really worried about Ray D. Falling in with the criminal element. Stick to the poochie, Ray D!
(Also, as a side note, I'm really bummed that I didn't find out till after I'd read this that I was spozed to read Ghost of Hoppers first. Feck. Oh well, it wasn't like it was hard to follow, but I think I would've gotten more out of the Vivian storyline if I had gone in order.)
(Also, as a side note, I'm really bummed that I didn't find out till after I'd read this that I was spozed to read Ghost of Hoppers first. Feck. Oh well, it wasn't like it was hard to follow, but I think I would've gotten more out of the Vivian storyline if I had gone in order.)
July 2, 2008
I really enjoyed this book when it was from the point of view of Hopey but as soon as it switched to Ray I completely lost interest... hence the 3 stars. The Hopey part almost reminded me of Adrian Tomine. Reading the back of the book lead me to believe there were others in this "series" so I'll look into them. Definitely worth a second glance.
March 23, 2009
This was my first go with the Love and Rockets series. I must say, the female characters transcend the black and white spaces into colour! Hernandez's post-punk heroines kick ass (and they're beautiful with all-encompassing body shapes and sizes)! I was disappointed there wasn't more of Hopey (which is misleading title wise). The book is so LA, which triggered nostalgia. *Sigh*
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