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Love & Rockets: New Stories #7 Kindle & comiXology

by Gilbert Hernandez (Author, Artist), Jaime Hernandez (Author, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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The seventh volume of Love and Rockets: New Storiesfinds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip to visit a 'sick friend' while Ray visits some old sick friends of his own. Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Fritz as Morgan Le Fey teams up with Aladdin; a WWII sci-fi thriller and 'Daughters and Mothers and Daughters,' in which flashbacks to Luba's mother Maria reveal how old secrets affect their family today.

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"...Jaime reunites lifelong pals Maggie and Hopey for a road trip, and Gilbert returns briefly to the fictional Latin American village of Palomar and casts his sometimes-actress character Fritz in a goofy costume epic featuring Aladdin and a spaceship. The familiar cast members and the Hernandez brothers’ respective graphic strengths ― Jaime’s economically elegant cartooning and Gilbert’s bold designs and imaginative characterizations ― will leave fans satisfied and eager for next year’s installment."
― Gordon Flagg, Booklist

"The latest Love & Rockets: New Stories is... comfortable and deeply pleasurable -- and often startling -- in the ways that master cartoonists Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have done for over thirty years: the art is gorgeous, the storytelling clear and perfectly realized, the characters sketched acutely and smartly, with wonderful surprises and complex subtexts displaying themselves seemingly around every turn."
― Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin

"Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted one of the most salient, evocative modern romantic dramas in comics, if not any medium."
― Sean Edgar, Paste

"Another strong, strong, strong, strong, strong issue."
― Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter

"...[W]hat we have here is a comic so insanely aflame with creative fire that we have to break the Emergency Glass and throw the word ART! at it. No doubt, no doubt at all, The Bros Hernandez are still simply the best..."
― John Kane, The Savage Critics

"The renowned Hernandez brothers continue this acclaimed series after more than three decades of fictional dramas and black comedies. ... The art, as always, is top-notch, black and white art rendering the characters as hugely expressive and lovable. (Starred Review)"
― Publishers Weekly

"The great thing is that Love and Rockets isn’t stuck in time; it’s not telling the same stories over and over. Its characters have been allowed to grow up, learn and develop."
― Scott Cederlund, Panel Patter

About the Author

Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime’s work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium’s history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children’s book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.

Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, and is considered one of the greatest living comics writer-artists in the world. In 1982, Hernandez co-created, along with his brothers Mario and Jaime, the ongoing, iconic, internationally acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. In addition to his work on Love and Rockets, its spinoffs, and side series, Hernandez has released a prodigious amount of original graphic novels and miniseries, such as Sloth, Bumperhead, and Marble Season. He also collaborated with Darwyn Cooke on The Twilight Children for DC. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2017 and is the recipient of a Fellow Award from United States Artists and a PEN Center USA’s Graphic Literature Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Hernandez lives in Ventura, CA, with his wife and daughter.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013XS01AY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics (February 11, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 11, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 198962 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 104 pages

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Tony Gervasio

I look forward to the new volume of Love and Rockets each year

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015

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I look forward to the new volume of Love and Rockets each year. It never disappoints. Los Bros Hernandez are masters at their craft, producing some of the best graphic novels in the business.

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015

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As always, the Hernandez brothers treat us to great storytelling and great art. I only wish they published more often. The wait between issues is FAR too long!

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015

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Love and Rockets is always incredible

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015

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Another great installment in Los Bros Hernandez' magnum opus. I give it four stars rather than five because it is not their absolute best work, narratively. Gilbert is engaged in some kind of mother-daughter thing, but it didn't really grab me. Jaime gets Maggie and Hopey together again (Yay!), but it lacked something... resolution maybe? The art is, as always, magnificent from both.

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Loretta Martin

( A waste of time and money

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2015

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This material was already published in total in previous books. There was no warning that this was not new material. :(
A waste of time and money.

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2015

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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020

This issue is packed! First, take a look at the cover. That's Maggie at the front—maybe 40 years old or more? Notice how the wallpaper line leads us right to her eyes and that expression on her face. Behind her is Hopey, but her face appears cut off and she's almost part of the furniture. This is a visual joke, a play on the anonymity of the motel room environment—almost daring us to recognize her—and a contrast to how Maggie appears almost completely exposed but covering herself. Jaime's covers often have an amazing sense of story, particularly when you know the players. There's something simultaneously a little humdrum and uncomfortable about this image, and it may turn off some folks, but it's definitely a statement.

This is Jaime's official follow-up to ‘Love Bunglers’, following Maggie and Hopey together again as they travel by train to a ‘punk rock reunion’ in Hoppers, California. They arrive a day early, so it's just them hanging out for this first issue. If you've started L&R with New Stories and haven't read before this, you may have no idea who Hopey is, and this is not a great introduction to her. Everybody's older now, and Hopey hardly resembles her once mischievous, lively self. That's why I think this story will mean more to long-term fans than new ones. (Reading Jaime's mid-period Locas books ‘Penny Century’ and ‘Esperanza’ will give you a good solid background; going back all the way to the beginning will make things even clearer.)

But it's not all about Maggie and Hopey! We also get a few short entries with Maggie and Ray, or just Ray on his own. More importantly, Jaime busts out a brand-new sci-fi adventure feature: Princess Anima (a.k.a. Animus). This first installment may be my least favorite, but it only gets better from here, and it's nothing if not bold and imaginative, and crassly funny. And that's not all: Hot on the heels of last issue's dramatic wrap-up, we get the continuing adventures of Angel (in her side gig as a wrestler on the road) and Tonta (whose friend Gomez has just formed a club where everyone draws their own comics). There's a sense we'll be following all these characters for some time to come, and that's a good thing.

But starting off this issue: Gilbert's Killer. In Palomar. Again. I know, I know, we've been here before, but you love Palomar, right? Anyway, Killer's just a background player in this issue, as the focus will be shifting to Fritz and her personal life—rumors of a daughter, rumors of a son, an imitator in the porn industry, etc. There's something a bit revisionist about this story suite—particularly the brain-busting ‘Daughters and Mothers and Daughters’ starring Fritz and her mother Maria M.—but there's no denying it's well put-together and very entertaining, if you can keep it all straight. (Check out the spooky narration at the end of the story: It's a carryover from the previous issue's ‘Untitled’ and possibly the issue before, also tying into the Fritz story in issue #4. Levels, man.) A highlight is the B-film centerpiece ‘The Magic Voyage of Aladdin’, where Fritz as Morgana Le Fay mixes it up with Mila as Circe, in pursuit of a magic lamp, surrounded by a wonderfully goofy cast that includes a talking electrical brain, Maria M. as the amazonian Tondelayo, and space-traveling adventurers Professor Enigma and his young assistant Missy. There's hardly a wasted panel.

Not only is there all that, but we get a quick thumbnail origin of ‘The Golem Suit’ (starring Killer), that hairy, helmeted gorilla-suit monstrosity that first appeared in L&R #1 and made a memorable cameo in ‘Girl Crazy’. How can you not love that? Finally, one more two-pager, ‘Talent’, featuring Fritz and Danny at a sci-fi fantasy convention signing booth, as they receive an impromptu visit from Fritz's co-star in ‘Aladdin’ (and her ex-husband Mark's ex), the always-charming Mila. While we've seen Fritz earlier in the issue, this feels like we're really seeing her for the first time, as she is today. Because she's now 47, whereas the movies we were seeing before were made when she was around 40. (This is the big ‘reveal’, so to speak, but it's far from the only one this issue.) This story is just way too true-to-life, and so good. The last panel is one of the most perfect I've seen from Gilbert: ‘Smile for the ages.’

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