Esperanza

A Love and Rockets Book

By: Jaime Hernandez

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Paperback | 26 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Paperback
248 Pages

Age
16+

Grade
11+

Dimensions(cm)
2.34 x 1.9 x 0.17

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As Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez continue to delight readers new and oldwith the continuing adventures of their characters in the annual Love and Rockets:New Stories, Fantagraphics continues to collecttheir earlier stories in these fat, handy, and inexpensive collections.

In this batch of "Locas" stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of Loveand Rockets Volume II (picking up where 2010's Penny Century collection leftoff), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the "Ghost of Hoppers" in a full-length graphic novel(which also introduces one of Jaime's greatest recent characters, Vivian the "Frogmouth," the near-psychotic bombshell).

Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey (her Spanish birth name giving this collection its title) transitionsfrom tending bar to teaching kindergarten (while still juggling a complex love life), and the final quarter of the bookshows Maggie's lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling forthe "Frogmouth."

Industry Reviews

I don't really understand why the material of Love and Rockets isn't widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of fiction of the last 35 years. Because it is.--Neil Gaiman
...[I]f there's one thingJ aime's Locas stories in general, and this volume in particular, tell us, it's that sometimes you have to be a grown-up for a long time before you grow up. It's worth the work, and the wait.--Sean T. Collins "The Comics Journal"

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