ESPERANZA: A Love And Rockets Book TP (LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY JAIME GN)

ESPERANZA: A Love And Rockets Book TP (LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY JAIME GN)

<p><strong>Maggie deals with the past and Hopey moves into the future in the latest complete <em>Love and Rockets</em> book.</strong></p> As Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez continue to delight readers new and old with the continuing adventures of their characters in the annual <em>Love and Rockets: New Stories</em>, Fantagraphics continues to collect their earlier stories in these fat, handy, and inexpensive collections.<br /><br /> In this batch of €œLocas€ stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of <em>Love and Rockets Volume II</em> (picking up where 2010€s <em>Penny Century</em> collection left off), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the €œGhost of Hoppers€ in a full-length graphic novel (which also introduces one of Jaime€s greatest recent characters, Vivian the €œFrogmouth,€ the near-psychotic bombshell).<br /><br /> 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 Maggie€s lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling for the €œFrogmouth.€ 248 pages of black-and-white comics