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Loading... The Girl from HOPPERS (Love & Rockets) (v. 2)by Jaime Hernandez
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. So I cannot get a hold of the first book in this series. This makes things a little bit confusing at times. However overall I still really enjoyed the book and I am going to continue on with the series (while continuing to look for the elusive first volume.) The characters are really interesting and a little bit crazy. I do like the wrestler story line and hope that that one continues into the next book. The one shots at the end were also pretty funny. ( ) So I cannot get a hold of the first book in this series. This makes things a little bit confusing at times. However overall I still really enjoyed the book and I am going to continue on with the series (while continuing to look for the elusive first volume.) The characters are really interesting and a little bit crazy. I do like the wrestler story line and hope that that one continues into the next book. The one shots at the end were also pretty funny. Another excellent work from the exceptional Jaime Hernandez. This second installment in a three-volume series includes "Flies on the Ceiling", an outstanding, over-the-top piece that demonstrates why the works of Jaime Hernandez are "Exhibit A" in the case of comics-as-art. For anyone who cares about the state of graphic novels and the creative impulse in America today, this work is essential. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesLove and Rockets Library (Jaime: 2)
This collection features the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy -- as well as the aging but still heroic wrestler Rena Titaon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. After Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series, Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite surprising. No library descriptions found. |
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