Crying - for a *comic book character*?

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	• Love & Rockets Vol. 7: The Death of Speedy Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, ... Fantagraphics Books, 1989 - 136 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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The best L. & R. I read so far

It seems that Love and Rockets trades begin with strange story in Music for Mechanics, get better and better and creative culmination of Jaime Hernandez is book 7, Death of Speedy. After trade 8 (I didn't read it so I can't say if it's better than 7), both brothers loose inspiration. I have 13-15 to read, so I can't say if it's better than 9-12, but if you want to buy a Love and Rockets book, buy 7. Yoou don't need the rest, this one's quality is on par with the best issues of Sandman, Maxx , Preacher, Planetary and newer cult-status comics.

We love you, Maggie and Hopey!

Everyone ought to read the amazing work of the immortal Los Bros. Hernandez -- Jaime and Beto H., creators (respectively) of the "Locas" and "Palomar" series, which together comprise the unified title 'Love and Rockets'. Although these are, y'know, comic books (*graphic novels* to YOU, bub), they are probably the greatest works of American storytelling since Lieutenant Slothrop vanished while searching for the 00001 Rocket towards the end of "Gravity's Rainbow". Put this 'Locas' stuff on the shelf right next to Faulkner, Hurston, Pynchon, Ellison, and Mister Henry Freakin' James. It's THAT good.

While I admire Beto's complex and subtle "Palomar" work more than I actually 'love' it, Jaime's creation of the So. Cal. town of 'Hoppers' and its loveably life-like denizens Maggie, Hopey, Izzy, Penny, Ray, Danita, and the rest of the gang are almost too good to be believed. "The Death of Speedy" comes smack in the middle of the series, but it's one of Xaime's best; even if you didn't already know the characters and the ongoing saga, you could probably pick up the trail from here without too many headaches. Other highlights in the series include "Flies on the Ceiling" and "Wig Wam Bam". But everything these guys did in the '80s is worth checking out.

I'm serious, people. If you don't know 'Love and Rockets,' you really don't know what you're missing. Put down your silly Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith for a minute, and come to where the real flava is.

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Crying - for a *comic book character*?

All of Jaime Hernandez' work for the Love and Rockets comic series is terrific, but this particular book is especially well done. The story of life in the barrio of LA is alternately funny and brutal (sometimes within the same page). Maggie, Speedy, Ray, and the rest of the characters are easy to identify with and care about. The art is also fantastic. Go read

Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.

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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