Jaime HernÃ¡ndez
As Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez continue to delight readers new and old,with the continuing adventures of their characters in the annual ,Love and Rockets:,New Stories,, Fantagraphics continues to collect,their earlier stories in these fat, handy, and inexpensive collections.,In this batch of â€œLocasâ€ stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of ,Love,and Rockets Volume II, (picking up where 2010â€™s ,Penny Century, collection left,off), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the â€œGhost of Hoppersâ€ in a full-length graphic novel,(which also introduces one of Jaimeâ€™s greatest recent characters, Vivian the â€œFrogmouth,â€ the near-psychotic bombshell).,Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey (her Spanish birth name giving this collection its title) transitions,from tending bar to teaching kindergarten (while still juggling a complex love life), and the final quarter of the book,shows Maggieâ€™s lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling for,the â€œFrogmouth.â€
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