Synopses & Reviews
With #3, Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved "Loca" Maggie after a three-year hiatus, and the resultant stories -- one ("The Love Bunglers") set in the here and now detailing Maggie's continued romantic travails, and one, the heartrending "Browntown" (which was immediately hailed as one of the very best stories in the 30-year history of the series), set in her teenage days and involving some previously unseen members of her family. #4 picks up both of these storylines, first with the conclusion to "Love Bunglers" (did Maggie really dump Ray again?), then with a sequel of sorts to "Browntown" in which teenage Maggie returns to Hoppers and a new life. Meanwhile, on the Gilbert side of town, 's Fritz returns in "Talkabout," a 15-page dialogue with an old beau. Second up is the 35-page "King Vampire": Two lovable teens, Cecil and Trini, want to join a local vampire club but real vampires show up and things get serious. Cecil loves it but Trini has her doubts about going all the way. But wait -- is this a real story or another "Fritz movie"? Some of the characters look awfully familiar!
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"This is work. At this point, Jaime Hernandez draws comics better than maybe anyone's ever drawn comics. ...[M]y God, . I'm so grateful to have read it." Jeet Heer The Comics Journal
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"It's impossible to overstate how great Jaime's Hernandez's new story is. I think it's one of best comics ever drawn." The Comics Reporter
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"Jaime has not only managed to maintain the standard that he set in his Locas stories back in the 1980s and '90s, at times I would say his work is better than ever.... #4 sees the end of 'The Love Bunglers,' a story that is every bit as as one could wish." Tony Keen
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"As I finished reading #4, I had to sit back and just take a moment to take it all in and collect myself, as I know that I had just completed reading .... #4 is an achievement for the Brothers Hernandez and has earned a permanent spot on my required reading list for anyone interesting in reading the great works of modern comics creators." FA
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"It should go without saying by now that any new volume of is a must for any serious comics fan... 4 is... ..." Ron Richards iFanboy
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"... Vol. 3, No. 4, is a issue, recalling the best from the series' past. I love it." Noel Murray The A.V. Club
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"Warm-hearted, deceptively heart-wrenching, challenging, charming and irresistibly addictive, is a grown up comics fan's dream come true and remains as valid and groundbreaking as its earlier incarnations -- ." Charles Hatfield The Panelists
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"Even in a long career of masterpieces, Jaime's story about missed opportunities for happiness is , while Gilbert continues to cement his place as the Jorodowsky of comics with a vampire tale." Win Wiacek Now Read This!
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"Every now and then, if I'm lucky, I might just bump into a . The kind of art that makes you just want to shout and scream it is so good. So, in the interest of doing just that, let me say that Jaime Hernandez's 'The Love Bunglers' is such a work.... This is not just Jaime's finest work, but ." Publishers Weekly - Best Comics of 2011
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"I'll freely confess that at the end of the new issue when I saw how Jaime had tied together the fates of Hopey, Maggie, and Ray I started crying like a baby. ...Gilbert's recent comics have the protean energy and relentless will to reinvention that rivals the Crumb of and ." Dan Nadel The Comics Journal
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"While it's no surprise that Jaime Hernandez is still producing comics, it is also still incredible to see how big his storytelling balls are, man." Tom Spurgeon The Comics Reporter
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"...Jaime Hernandez... completes a long-running narrative without grandiose preening, and . The final pages speed toward a finish that will satisfy new readers and bring bittersweet conclusion for fans." Bob Temuka The Tearoom of Despair
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"The finale of the story Jaime has been telling over the past couple of annual issues is a moment of , but the buildup to it in the opening portions of this issue is pretty great as well..." Alex Carr Omnivoracious (Amazon.com)
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"Symphonic, tragic, revelatory, exciting and devastating as only great art can be, 'The Love Bunglers' is ." Matthew J. Brady Warren Peace Sings the Blues
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"[Jaime] Hernandez just keeps delivering stories of the highest calibre.... The moments of his characters' lives that Hernandez chooses to show in the telling of his tales are picked and deployed with such precision it betrays a wisdom and clarity very few storytellers possess, in comics or any other media. ." Joe Gross The Austin American-Statesman
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"It reaches emotional heights I rarely encounter when reading comics and was not prepared for." Nick Abadzis (Laika)
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"Jaime Hernandez is my favorite cartoonist. I think he is . My opinion.... No art moves me the way the work of Jaime Hernandez moves me. I am in awe of his eternal mystery." Jim Rugg (Afrodisiac)
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"It goes without saying that 'The Love Bunglers' completely knocked me out... , it's like a cartooning master class in the span of fifty pages, and a tremendous reward to the long-term reader." Frank Santoro (Storeyville, Cold Heat)
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"Another great issue, with the continuation and ending of 'The Love Bunglers,' from Jaime Hernandez. It's ... You almost have to remind yourself that, yes, these are characters, not real people! Apparently, nobody told Jaime that the quality of one's work is supposed to go down after working on a strip that long." Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Optic Nerve)
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Love and Rockets: New Storie #4 picks up both of these storylines, first with the conclusion to Love Bunglers (did Maggie really dump Ray again?), then with a sequel of sorts to Browntown in which teenage Maggie returns to Hoppers and a new life. Meanwhile, on the Gilbert side of town, High Soft Lisp s Fritz returns in Talkabout, a 15-page dialogue with an old beau. Second up is the 35-page King Vampire: Two lovable teens, Cecil and Trini, want to join a local vampire club but real vampires show up and things get serious. Cecil loves it but Trini has her doubts about going all the way. But wait is this a real story or another Fritz movie ? Some of the characters look awfully familiar "
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More romantic travails for Maggie (in the sequel to the acclaimed "Browntown") -- plus vampires!
About the Author
Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets. His books include Chance in Hell, The Troublemakers, Luba, Palomar, Speak of the Devil, Sloth, The High Soft Lisp, Love from the Shadows, Girl Crazy, Yeah!, and many books in the Love and Rockets series.Jaime Hernandez is a lifelong Los Angelean, where he continues to chronicle Maggie's life in the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories.