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Work InformationPerla La Loca (Love and Rockets) by Jaime Hernandez
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() A fine end to the first part of the Maggie and Hopey story cycle, Perla La Loca represents Jaime Hernandez at the top of his game, both in terms of visual and narrative execution. As the protagonists have aged a bit, Hernandez allows some experimental technique to enter into the proceedings, visiting territory more often associated with his brother Gilbert. Particularly interesting is a series of stories set in the nearly abandoned Chester Square, a run-down strip mall that Hernandez uses as a sort of focus for contemporary aspects of the Mexican-American experience. All-in-all, Perla La Loca is more of what the Hernandez brothers so often deliver: essential comics reading. Somehow reading the Love and Rockets stories help me slow down my life and remember not to take things for granted. But also not to take things to seriously. Pretty great from a story about two lesbian punks in an all to real (cartoon) world drawn in black ink. Maggie and Hopey's story is a soap opera influenced by Black Flag, Dali, Steinbeck, wrestlers, El Sereno. And somewhere in there is me and probably you. -Steve no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesLove and Rockets Library (Jaime: 3)
Perla begins with the "Wigwam Bam" story, arguably Jaime Hernandez's definitive statement on the post-punk culture. As Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days. "Wigwam Bam" brings us up to date on all the members of Jaime's extensive cast of characters and then drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in the very last pages. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas (the "Chester Square" that serves as the title of two of the strongest stories in the book), where she has to contend with both her own inner demons and a murderous hooker, and Camp Vicki, where she has to fend off her aunt Vicki's attempts to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of the amorous wrestling champ-to-be, Gina. As usual, Jaime spotlights a wide range of headstrong female characters. And what's this about Maggie getting married? No library descriptions found. |
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