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Penny Century (Love and Rockets: Locas #4)
Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive Maggie series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets(Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved Locas. But first... wrestling Penny Century starts off with a blast with Whoa, Nellie , a unique grap...more
Paperback, 249 pages
Published
April 6th 2010
by Fantagraphics Books
(first published 2010)
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Fantagraphics is compiling "Los Bros" Hernandez's entire catalog, little by little. As someone who came to the seminal underground comic series Love and Rockets very late, I really appreciate these well-put together volumes. Some ("Maggie the Mechanic", "The Girl from Hoppers", "Perla La Loca") contain Jaime Hernandez's "Hoppers" stories, which follow a group of Chicano teenagers who came of age in the '80s Los Angeles punk scene from those tum...more
(another find on the new books shelf at the SFPL Western Addition branch) A compilation by brilliant indie comics artist Jaime Hernandez of his long running locas characters from Love and Rockets. I stumbled across his work as a kid and have loved it since. This collection is from the late 90s. I had read maybe half of these, and it was great to spend a few lost hours with his characters again, and the ongoing black and white cinematography of his drawing style. Life in LA, dream sequences, br...more
This review is going to be short: Jaime Hernandez is, bar none, the greatest living comic book artist. His drawings are gorgeous, his stories are compelling, and the best part is that he's been this good for going on 30 years now. Penny Century is no exception. If you like good stuff done well, then check this out.
Not all of Hernandez's stuff is gold. The first half of the book didn't grip me, but the later storylines did. I do dig the way his characters evolve slowly, but I think his stuff is probably best read in small doses. Reading too many pages at one sitting is usually less satisfying.
Sexy characters and good storylines. Not as scandalous as I was anticipating.
Most of these stories are in Locas II but they all were worth rereading.
I'm feeling redundant...but I love these. Unfortunately, I'm now to the end (for now) of the Locas stuff, so I'm off to Beto's Palomar stories. But I do dearly love these characters, and can't wait to visit them again.
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