Jaime HernÃ¡ndez
The 25th anniversary ,Love and Rockets, celebration continues with,this, the second of three volumes collecting the adventures of the,spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover,Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend,Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzyâ€”as well as the aging but,still heroic wrestler Rena TitaÃ±on and Maggie's handsome love interest,,Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seen,in ,Maggie the Mechanic,, the first volume in this series),,Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic,environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives,of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A,central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of,Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story,is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the,local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite,surprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again,romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation,from Hopey.,(Note: A number of these stories, including a whole cycle,of wrestling stories starring or co-starring Rena TitaÃ±on, were not,collected in the hardcover ,Locas,.)
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