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Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 2 by The Hernandez Brothers
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Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 2

by The Hernandez Brothers

Series: Love and Rockets: New Stories (2)

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While I loved the first volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories I'm quite a bit less thrilled with this second installment. This has to do primarily with the fact that the contents of the first volume made a fairly convincing departure from territories previously explored by Los Bros Hernandez, but the second volume seems to do little more than stretch the same content with no additional ideas or artistic developments put into play. While Jaime Hernandez continues with his usual graphic excellence, the additional chapters of his "Ti-Girls Adventures" make for dull reading. And the two contributions from Gilbert Hernandez are just plain boring, reveling in the very private and impenetrable language that he has lost himself in over the last few years. One can only hope that this series will improve in future volumes; if it doesn't, it will make for a sad end to a pair of formerly brilliant careers in the comics. ( )
  dr_zirk | Sep 25, 2009 |
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In the summer of 2008, Fantagraphics Books brought the classic Love and Rockets brand to a whole new audience with the hugely successful first volume of the trade-paperback sized Love and Rockets: New Stories. A year later, the Hernandez Brothers are back with the second eye-popping volume. This volume gets off to a flying start with "Hypnotwist," Gilbert's 39-page wordless epic about a beautiful, leggy redhead's surreal journey into a night filled with mysterious shady characters, dreamlike violence, and sparkling retro spike heels. But is it real, or something else? Then, the concluding 50-page chapter of Jaime's acclaimed superhero mash-up "Ti-Girls Adventures," our protagonist Boot Angel learns more hard lessons about becoming a superheroine. Eventually, just about the entire cast gets together in Maggie's tiny, messy one-bedroom apartment. Beto concludes with "Chest Fever," in which a group of friends venture to Las Vegas, which isn't quite what they expected...

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