Lost Women

by Jaime Hernández

Book Overview

Warehouse Find Features the cream of Jaime's "Maggie the Mechanic" stories including the sprawling epic "Lost Women," plus Beto's classic Palomar tales "The Laughing Sun" and "Act of Contrition." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930193660
• ISBN13: 9780930193669
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

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Los Bros. Hernandez are beyond description; I wish that the words brilliant, dazzling, ingenious, eminent, extraordinary, remarkable, and phenomenal, were fresh off the wordsmith's tongs, but as it is, they're simply too tarnished to gleam brightly enough for Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.Through Love and Rockets the Bros. have done for the graphic novel what Shakespeare did for the sonnet or Dorothy Parker did for the short story.Now I'll confess my personal taste: I love Hopey and Maggie. I even have a cat named Hopey. In high school and college, I used to live for each new episode of Locas. Hopey and Maggie are two women, barely out of their teens when the series begins-- though Maggie was already a master mechanic, best friends and occasional lovers, living in Hoppers, a fictional West Coast Hispanic town, where punk rock and big cars ruled, and if you were lucky, you older cousin might buy you beer.Hopey and Maggie had the usual problems and heartbreaks of young people not destined for college; Maggie was the worker, who could fix anything, Hopey was the dreamer, playing in her band, and very occasionally even making a little money at it. ("We want the world, and we want it-- BALD!") Also, once in awhile, Maggie went halfway around the world on a mission to a place where she rode hover scooters, and dinosaurs still existed.The world of Las Locas (93 Million Miles from the Sun), was poetic, in its very personal way; the way graffiti is beautiful, and you wonder why mayors and city councils get into such a snit over it. Poetic like the grace of a master skateboarder. Found art, that not everyone can see.But the Brothers Hernandez take all the poetics to be found that many people miss, and put it all in these pages, and hand you the glasses you need to see it clear as your own hands in front of you. And besides that, they're FUN! They're just plain fun, good old fun like you haven't had since high school. You can't sit still when you read Love and Rockets. You will smile and nod and laugh, and maybe even jump up and down a few times, and reach out to high five the characters who seem so real.But back to Hopey and Maggie. This particular collection chronicles one of their adventures. There are others, but for the uninitiated, I think this is the best introduction to Hopey and Maggie. It's not as tragic as The Death of Speedy, but it still catches them young, and doesn't leave you puzzling over so much that has gone before.Have this rush delivered. Do not deprive yourself of Love and Rockets any longer.