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Ghost Of Hoppers Jaime Hernandez
Fantagraphics 1560977000 / 9781560977001 Hardcover New
Ghost of Hoppers collects for the first time the new adventures of Maggie Chascarrillo, as serialized in the Love & Rockets comic book, and represents Jaime Hernandez's much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2004 magnum opus Locas, which Entertainment Weekly gave an 'A' for its "innovative technique and complex, character-driven stories about Mexican-American life."Ghost of Hoppers begins with the newly divorced Maggie now working as the resident building-manager of the notorious Capri Apartments deep in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, where imaginary dogs roam its walkways at night, all the air conditioners are broken, and the empty swimming pool is covered with flies. As if the eccentric, oddball tenants weren't weird enough, Maggie's houseguest and old friend Izzy Ortiz shakes things up with her usual nervous breakdowns, nocturnal screaming, and obsessive fly-swatting (sometimes with a knife!). When Izzy makes a guest appearance on a local cable access talk show to promote her book, Maggie meets the voluptuous Vivian the "Frogmouth," a curvaceous, hapless bombshell with a foghorn voice who is despised by Hopey (Maggie's long time on-again-off-again girlfriend, now a bartender sporting an eye patch after one of Vivian's previous bottle-breaking altercations). Maggie finds herself swept up in Vivian's life of random catfights, her mob-connected, knife-wielding stalker ex-boyfriend, and his violently jealous fiancee. Maggie and Vivian eventually strike up a reluctant and awkward romance, and when they set out for Hoppers to retrieve a stolen art object from Izzy, they get a lot more than they bargained for!About Jaime's work, the New York Times wrote, "These stories have all the visual smarts of film and the narrative smarts of literature. Hernandez specializes in psychological detail; we see both text and subtext immediately. What better than to open a book that shows there is more going on than we dream of in our workaday philosophies?"
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Love And Rockets Jaime Hernandez
John Wiley & Sons 1606993798 / 9781606993798 Paperback New
After Jaime s two-part super-hero epic from Love and Rockets: New Stories#1 and #2, we return to the enthralling minutiae of the Locas cast s livesfor the first time in three years. In themain story Ray finally gets his datewith Maggie: The couple goes to anart opening and to dinner, they discussthe crazy world of dreams, and Maggie asks Ray for a huge favor. Also in thisvolume, Brown Town, Blue Sun, a new installment in Jaime s beloved littlekids flashback series: A ten-year-old Maggie and her family move away fromHoppers to a desert ghost town And on the Gilbert side of the ledger, Scarlet by Starlight is a story starringFritz (of High Soft Lisp fame) that (in contrast to #2 s silent masterpiece Hypnotwist ) consists entirely of a 14-page dialogue scene. Killer/Sad Girl/Star picks up the Sad Girl character from LRNS #2, and how no one in her familytakes her budding film career seriously.
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Tears From Heaven Los Bros Hernandez [Jaime, Gilbert, Mario]
Fantagraphics 093019344X / 9780930193447 Paperback New
Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez.
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Wigwam Bam Jaime Hernandez
Fantagraphics 1560971207 / 9781560971207 Paperback New
When Jaime Hernandez launched his epic "Wigwam Bam" in Love and Rocketsv.1 #32, no one realized to what extent it would be his definitivestatement on the post-punk culture. As Maggie, Hopey, and the rest ofthe Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in betweentrying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days exceptfor Izzy, who tries to flee and ultimately, ironically, is the one whofinds Hopey (and who unlocks the secret of Maggie and Hopey'srelationship). In a series of precise and affecting vignettes, "WigwamBam" brings us up to date on all the members of Jaime's extensive castof characters Ray and Danita, Doyle, Daffy, Penny Century, Hopey'sbrother Zero, their various relatives and then drops a narrative bombon Hopey (and us) in the very last pages.Wigwam Bam reprintsthe entirety of the story from volume 1, #32-39, as well as an epilogue, "GonnaMake You My Man," which also appears in #42. "Wigwam Bam" is Jaime'smost mature and satisfying work yet, and readers who were frustratedtrying to read it in serialized form will be amazed to rediscover it inthis format.
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