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Love and Rockets #13
Love and Rockets, Vol. 13: Chester Square
The Hernandez brothers recently published the last issue of their alternative comics groundbreaker, Love and Rockets. This book collects Jami's last stories from the magazine, which wrap up a saga begun in 1981. Heroine Maggie has been languishing at her aunt Vicki's women wrestler's camp in rural Texas.
Jamie brings back other cast members , ranging from Maggie's sister Esther to Billionaire's wife Penny Century, and even makes a nod to the fantastic series' early science fiction slant.
Of course, at the very end, Maggie is reunited with soul mate Hopey.
Jamie brings back other cast members , ranging from Maggie's sister Esther to Billionaire's wife Penny Century, and even makes a nod to the fantastic series' early science fiction slant.
Of course, at the very end, Maggie is reunited with soul mate Hopey.
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1996
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Jaime Hernández
273 books458 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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December 27, 2024
Just genius.
October 10, 2011
In an attempt to give structure and meaning to my life I have been tracking down the Fantagraphics reprints of Love and Rockets in the used bookstores of the Bay Area. I am a hunter gatherer of books. My quest has taken me to strange lands, like downtown Sunnyvale.
The thing with Love and Rockets is that no matter where I start I'm in media res because there are a zillion stories and loops. Los Bros Hernandez have set it up so that you can't step into the same issue twice. So I figured why not read number 13 in the series? I liked the cover.
This is the Hopey-Maggie thread of the L&R epic and the ending has a final feeling to it, so maybe it's the end for this story line. It doesn't matter because the point is to hang out with the characters, at least it is for people like me without eidetic memory.
It's mainly Maggie, and she is sad and all alone in a crappy Texas town. She hangs out with her wrestler friends and relatives. Then her sister comes to town and Penny Century is there too, possibly in flashbacks. Giant Gina loves Maggie, Maggie might be marrying El Diablo, Danita loves El Diablo, Maggie's sister calls off her wedding. It's complicated. Then Maggie gets slapped by different passers by for *two whole pages* and you get an idea of how she thinks of herself and what she thinks she deserves. Then she rides off into the sunset in the back of a cop car with her soul mate. That's good readin'!
The thing with Love and Rockets is that no matter where I start I'm in media res because there are a zillion stories and loops. Los Bros Hernandez have set it up so that you can't step into the same issue twice. So I figured why not read number 13 in the series? I liked the cover.
This is the Hopey-Maggie thread of the L&R epic and the ending has a final feeling to it, so maybe it's the end for this story line. It doesn't matter because the point is to hang out with the characters, at least it is for people like me without eidetic memory.
It's mainly Maggie, and she is sad and all alone in a crappy Texas town. She hangs out with her wrestler friends and relatives. Then her sister comes to town and Penny Century is there too, possibly in flashbacks. Giant Gina loves Maggie, Maggie might be marrying El Diablo, Danita loves El Diablo, Maggie's sister calls off her wedding. It's complicated. Then Maggie gets slapped by different passers by for *two whole pages* and you get an idea of how she thinks of herself and what she thinks she deserves. Then she rides off into the sunset in the back of a cop car with her soul mate. That's good readin'!
May 22, 2012
This is the last all-Jaime collection from this series, and it was clearly meant to wrap up his Maggie/Hopey storylines as the comic series was shutting down (for the time being).
It's fairly typical of his work throughout the series: lovely to look at and entertaining to read, but emotionally somehow empty. Though there are serious ups and downs for many of the characters herein (the story is mainly focused on Maggie), it isn't until the very end that we're given any sort of resolution that feels emotionally satisfying. And it is a satisfying end to his part of the saga.
It's fairly typical of his work throughout the series: lovely to look at and entertaining to read, but emotionally somehow empty. Though there are serious ups and downs for many of the characters herein (the story is mainly focused on Maggie), it isn't until the very end that we're given any sort of resolution that feels emotionally satisfying. And it is a satisfying end to his part of the saga.
June 25, 2009
This may be one of my favorite L&R compilations. It focuses more on Maggie's post-punk days; friends are getting older; when things go bad they're less tragicomic and more tragic. THe characters and dialogue in this one were fine tuned...and the silent frames were as complex emotionally. Like a telenovela-if it was made about old punks you actually knew, and had a more developed and interesting psychological arc.
July 16, 2009
Still don't understand Hopey and Maggie's relationship. Maybe I'm not meant to.
July 26, 2014
The wrestling stuff was never my bag, but I look forward to the day I can collect all of Jaime Hernandez's work. Top notch.
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