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Love and Rockets, No. 1: New Stories
Love and Rockets, No. 1: New Stories | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
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Jaime launches the new format with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad with grief and rampaging through the galaxy. A motley group of superheroes assemble to try to stop her. Only the first half of the saga, it combines Jaime's razor-sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style action. Gilbert Hernandez has these stories: "Tamanny" (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); "Papa" (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); "The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy" (superpowered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); "The Tender Room" (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); "Chiro el Indio" (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and "Never Say Never" (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas).
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Auntynanny
Love and Rockets, No. 1: New Stories | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
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Pickpick

I love the Hernandez brothers and especially their Love and Rockets stories!

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VanChocStrawberry
Love and Rockets, No. 1: New Stories | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
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Mehso-so

LOVED the main super hero story—so funny and feminist and almost satirical. Some of the smaller stories were just super weird and didn‘t go over as well with me.

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night_shift
Love and Rockets, No. 1: New Stories | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
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I liked the main story with all female superheroes, that was cool, but the short snippets between were bizarre and I didn't get them at all. So I don't know.

VanChocStrawberry I just said the same thing! I would read that main story all day long! 7y
night_shift @VanChocStrawberry lol.. glad to know I'm not the only one. I don't think I'll be reading the next one either way. 7y
VanChocStrawberry @UnidragonFrag it was so funny! I often look at reviews after I post mine to see what other littens thought. And our reviews were so similar. (edited) 7y
VanChocStrawberry I might check out the second one, but I‘ll probs speed through the other stories. 7y
night_shift @VanChocStrawberry I tend to not look at any reviews until I've formulated my own. They influence me too much, especially if it's someone I like & follow. If I do check out the second one, probably will do the same! 7y
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