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Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 (Complete Love and Rockets #29)
With Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved Loca Maggie after a three-year hiatus, and the resultant stories one ( The Love Bunglers ) set in the here and now detailing Maggie s continued romantic travails, and one, the heartrending Browntown (which was immediately hailed as one of the very best stories in the 30-year history of the serie...more
Paperback, 104 pages
Published
October 17th 2011
by Fantagraphics
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Friday I discovered that I'd totally missed the release of the latest Love and Rockets graphic novel! So Saturday I went to Forbidden Planet to pick up a copy. I probably should have re-read 3 first but I just sat down and read it because I couldn't wait! I think this is the first time I've read one of the new books since I've read Gilbert's Love and Rocket comics. I have to say having been more familiar with his writing and art I found myself enjoying his stories more than the previous issues....more
The book concludes the storyline set up in the last book called "The Love Bunglers" about Maggie and Ray's on again off again relationship which Jaime draws, as well as "Browntown" which takes place when Maggie was a teen. Gilbert writes/draws a bizarre and funny vampire story and a shorter one about a fading alcoholic movie star.
All the stories were excellent especially Gilbert's as I've never fully gotten into "Love and Rockets" proper as there's too much backstory to go through to be up to da...more
All the stories were excellent especially Gilbert's as I've never fully gotten into "Love and Rockets" proper as there's too much backstory to go through to be up to da...more
Sep 18, 2011
Mza
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who either hate love, love love, or are indifferent to love
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2011
The great game of reading anything for the first time -- by reading I will also include watching and listening to -- is to pass from disorientation into intimacy, familiarity, or, at least, a condition of not bumping blind into every wall or furnishing. I learned this game first in 1977 from
Star Wars
, which was the first work of art to drop me off in the middle of the proceedings without explaining itself (I couldn't read the scrolling yellow text.), letting me collect my bearings from a catal...more
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So I went against everything that is in my nature and jumped from Love and Rockets, Vol. 1 to Vol. 4. (It’s the cover, damn it! It’s hypnotizing.) Here, our highlighted story from The Hernandez Bros is “The Love Bunglers” and it’s told in Part Three, Four, and Five, featuring Jaime’s characters, Maggie and Angel. Now, while I have yet to read Vol. 2 and 3, and thus, not read Part One and Two of “The Love Bunglers,” what I can offer is a perspective completely unattached of emotional investment....more
I'm a big Hernandez Brothers fan--as well as a scholar of their work--and I'm always excited when I new book comes out from one of the brothers...or in this case, the annual Love & Rockets volume. I feel mixed about this latest volume, though, and thus my only giving this three stars. Jaime's contributions are definitely the highlight. His ongoing saga of Maggie and her relationship with Ray stand out head and shoulders above everything else in this book. The same could be said for Jaime's c...more
Jaime's stories kill it here. Gilbert's been off on these riffs on genres that just don't resonate that much with me, his stories here feel a lot thinner.
I'd also say that I was prepped to find Jaime's stories as emotionally devastating as last issue's "Browntown." I think because of that advance warning, they didn't quite land with as much emotional punch as when I read L & R 3. That said, the formal innovation in his stories was pretty amazing and not what I was expecting--unannounced time...more
I'd also say that I was prepped to find Jaime's stories as emotionally devastating as last issue's "Browntown." I think because of that advance warning, they didn't quite land with as much emotional punch as when I read L & R 3. That said, the formal innovation in his stories was pretty amazing and not what I was expecting--unannounced time...more
Another great volume of L&R from Los Bros Hernandez. The continuation of Jaime's "Love Bunglers" is especially good, and shows that the author has yet to run out of story ideas for these richly-developed characters - after thirty years, you might think the well would begin to run dry, but Jaime still has so much to say, and he says it so well. GIlbert's contributions are enjoyable as well, and the contrast between the style and approaches of these sibling creators is the essential ingredient...more
I guess you should not start a series on the fourth title, it just came in to the library and I tried it out, I have no idea what went on alothough some of the reviews and the synopsis helped straighten some of it out. Not sure I am a graphic novel fan (at least I can read it front to back).
Wow. Jaime's work hits a new peak, and that's really saying something. Decades of storylines come together to leave the reader feeling like the Locas stories may be at their natural end. I have no idea where Hernandez could go next, but with stories like this, I'll follow him anywhere.
I'm giving this five stars for Jaime Hernandez's brutally beautiful continuation of the relationship between Maggie and Ray. I'm not sure what his brother Gilbert is doing here with vampires and such, but if you have been following Love & Rockets this volume will totally shatter your heart, like poor Ray's head.
I haven't read a lot of the older L&R stuff, so I probably missed all sorts of subtleties in these recent issues, but it's still amazing work. The two page spread that shows the history of Maggie and Ray's relationship took my breath away.
To paraphrase Gilbert Hernandez: "I won't stop reading Love & Rockets, even though in the future there won't be any need for reading or writing."
Volume 3 killed me. At the end of Volume 4 I couldn't stop crying. My boyfriend thought something bad had happened to me, and in a way, it had.
I think the Hernández Bros might have saved my life more than once. Here they did it again. Maybe there is hope for me?
The end of "The Love Bunglers" made me cry. NOTHING MAKES ME CRY.
This issue belongs to Jaime, but I love Beto too.
the caveat being that all five stars go to jaime.
So many feelings. Can't even deal.
Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man. Oh man.
Comics don't get much better than this!
Couldn't decide how I felt about this, entirely, and then the last bit of the last story just hit me like a ton of bricks. Loved it.
It was nice to see Beto write a story that didn't involve something awful happening to somebody.
Also, I think The Love Bunglers might be my favorite Jaime story ever. Granted, I'm a huge Ray D fan.
Also, I think The Love Bunglers might be my favorite Jaime story ever. Granted, I'm a huge Ray D fan.
best one of the new bunch, by far
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Sep 20, 2011 07:20am