false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172162169m/144141.jpg 144141 1 <B>Maggie returns in Hernandez's first book since the smash hit <I>Locas</I>.</B><BR><BR>Ghost of Hoppers collects for the first time the new adventures of Maggie Chascarrillo, as serialized in the <I>Love & Rockets</I> comic book, and represents Jaime Hernandez's much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2004 magnum opus <I>Locas</I>, which <I>Entertainment Weekly</I> gave an 'A' for its "innovative technique and complex, character-driven stories about Mexican-American life."<BR><BR><I>Ghost of Hoppers</I> 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 fiancée. 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!<BR><BR>About Jaime's work, the <I>New York Times</I> 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?" 139063 13 3 2006 Ghost of Hoppers (A Love & Rockets Book) total:143|5:64|4:52|3:21|2:6|1:0| 143 603 175 18 5 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 03:56:06 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 04:28:39 -0700 2008 Ghost of Hoppers five stars when I've given other Jaime collections only four, but there's something very intense about this one, something truly spooky and yet familiar and all adding up to the fact that you can't go home again and, actually, you probably shouldn't be...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 28 13:48:28 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 12:10:30 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 13:43:27 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 17 13:24:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 15:17:13 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 16:28:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:48:02 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 16:02:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 07:28:09 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 07:45:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Oct 10 08:36:37 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:15:35 -0800 2008 once more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:08:25 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:09:18 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 20:02:41 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 08:46:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 13 14:41:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 14:41:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 22 03:12:06 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 03:17:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 07:16:26 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 11 16:41:25 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 29 07:35:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 08:52:38 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 11:10:23 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 11:07:49 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 11:00:05 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 11:00:21 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jan 26 18:32:35 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 18:33:04 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 17:07:51 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 07:15:13 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Apr 08 19:46:50 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 19:46:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 10:15:30 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:15:30 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 21:03:09 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 21:03:09 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=144141