Angels and Magpies collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 New York Times serial. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin and in Love Bunglers, perhaps Hernandez's greatest masterpiece and one of the great graphic novels of all time, the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray's reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.
(W) Todd Hignite In 1981, three Mexican-American brothers self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets, and "changed American cartooning forever" according to Publishers Weekly. Over 25 years later it is still being published to critical and commercial success. Jaime Hernandez's moving stories chronicle the lives of some of the most memorable and fully formed characters the comics world has ever seen. His female protagonists, masterfully delineated with humor, candor, and breathtaking realism, come to life within California's Mexican-American culture and punk milieu. The notoriously private artist has opened his archives for the first time, revealing never-before-seen sketches, childhood drawings, and unpublished work, alongside his most famous Love and Rockets material, much of it photographed in color from the original art.
(W/A) Jaime Hernandez This latest inexpensive and handy collection of Jaime Hernandez's early work picks up where 2010's Penny Century leaves off. Esperanza features an older, wiser Maggie, a maturing Hopey and introduces one of Jaime's greatest recent characters, Vivian the "Frogmouth," the near-psychotic bombshell.
Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Jaime Hernandez collects almost 200 pages of the raw, original art from the first fifty issues of the Love and Rockets comic book, including such classic stories as The Death of Speedy, Chester Square, and Wigwam Bam. This book traces his evolution from his punk-poster beginnings to his current style and is indispensable for collectors, fans, and cartooning students alike.
Jaime Hernandez's God And Science manages to be both a rollickingly creative superhero joyride that ranges to the other side of the universe and a genuinely dramatic fable about madness, grief, and motherhood. It has now been expanded from its original 100 pages to include 30 new pages including four new full-color faux Ti-Girls covers, several expansions of scenes and an epilogue. [(W/A/CA) Jaime Hernandez]
Centered on one of Jaime's peaks, The Death of Speedy, the second comprehensive Locas collection (with stories not in the hardcover) alternates between wrestling action and the triangle of Maggie, Hopey and Ray D. [(W/A/CA) Jaime Hernandez]
The multi-award winning Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade. Los Bros Hernandez' latest installment of this acclaimed graphic novel series, features both old friends (Fritz, Killer) and new faces (Tonta), and some genuine surprises as the Luba generational saga deepens. [(W) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez (A) Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez]
Publishers Weeklysays, Even in a long career of masterpieces, [The Love Bunglers] is a revelation. The suppression of family history and the cumulative effects of these secrets are the initial threads that tie together this masterful graphic novel starring Hernandez's longtime heroine, Maggie Chascarillo. Torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories! [(W/A/CA) Jaime Hernandez]
