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

This book collects works by Jaime Hernandez from Love and Rockets Vol. 2 (2001-2007). Despite still being the focus point of the Locas storyline, here Maggie shares the spotlight with old characters like Hopey and Ray and new characters like Viv and Angel. I particularly like the stories with Hopey as an assistant teacher and Ray's bittersweet chronicles about his chaotic love life. Great collection from one of the giants of American comics.

love this series, paying more attention to it as I get older. Some themes in the series hurt my heart, like a previous purchase showed child abuse, but reflection of the times...May be harsh for some readers, but I still enjoy it very much. Like reading about Spanish soap opera series.

Jaime Hernandez has never been better! If you are a Love and Rockets fan, this is a must read!

I’m enjoying these Love and Rockets Library collections. While I prefer larger pages to showcase the art, the bigger page count gives me a chance admire Jaime’s slow unfolding of story and characters in a seemingly offhand way. Jaime’s depiction of facial expressions and spot on dialogue make the characters feel like people you have encountered in real life.I’ve been reading Love and Rockets for decades and it just keeps getting better.Highly recommended.

It's a great book. Buy it and love it!

‘Esperanza’ makes a better book than its components, ‘Ghost of Hoppers’ and ‘The Education of Hopey Glass’, if only because neither seemed particularly well-focused or much of a graphic novel on its own. From my perspective, these are just the continuing adventures of Maggie and Hopey and their crew, who are entering early maturity as a period of self-doubt and transition. Izzy, Ray, and Doyle feature prominently, plus new cast members Vivian and Angel. Vivian's character is a thread tying the two halves of the book together—thanks in part to the inclusion of the Ray story ‘The Frogmouth’, a holdover from ‘Dicks and Deedees’—with elements of her stories feeling like a prelude to ‘Love Bunglers’ and ‘Tonta’ yet to come.Izzy was hard to take here. I'm a new fan, and her character just didn't make sense to me. Having read ‘Penny Century’ (and even ‘Perla La Loca’) since first picking this up, I have a slightly better handle on things, but I still get the impression you almost need to start at the beginning to really grasp this storyline. Ray seems a bit lost; then again, he seemed lost in the previous book, too, but here he starts to seem pathetic. Doyle, last seen in ‘Wigwam Bam’, has gone through some changes; his relationship with Ray gets a little weird, and the lack of boundaries is kind of disturbing though not uninteresting. (Come to think of it, Maggie's relationship with Vivian was also kind of squishy and confusing.) This book was my introduction to Hopey, and she is rather unlikable here, considering the way she treats her girlfriend Rosie and others in her life; nevertheless, things pick up by the book's second half and one reason for this is Hopey starting a new job as teacher's assistant and her having to adapt to that process. That plus Ray's relationship with Vivian and his tentative reconnection to Maggie (if only by way of Angel) makes it feel like things are finally moving forward in a positive direction.This is just about the only book I've read so far that I would not recommend to a new reader; I'd at least read ‘Penny Century’ before tackling this. That said, the art is lovely. Jaime's style has evolved quite a bit, if you compare it to, say, ‘Perla La Loca’; the curves are softer and the lines have a brushstroked, thick-thin elegance that's very appealing. This book collects material from L&R Vol. 2, #1-19, right before Vol. 3: New Stories begins. It sticks quite closely to the original comics’ story sequencing, more so than the graphic novels, which might be to its advantage.

Magnificent

Junto con "Locas" 2 y 3, uno de los mejores trabajos del universo J.H.Sin desmerecer a Beto H., cuyo "Palomar" es una historieta imprescindible, junto con alguna otra de ese mundo que rodea a Luba, la carrera de Jaime me parece más compacta. Dicho esto, cualquier cómic relacionado con "Locas" o Luba supera en calidad con creces a la media de lo que hoy se publica. Muy recomendables si has de descartar opciones. Un saludo.

"Esperanza" ist das fünfte Buch in der Sammlung von Jaime Hernandez`"Locas"-Zyklus und erschien erstmals 2011 als Volume 10 der Gesamtausgabe der ersten 50 "Love and Rockets"-Hefte. Der Titel des Buches lässt vermuten, dass es diesmal schwerpunktmäßig um das Leben von Hopey (Esperanza Leticia Glass) geht; aber wieder einmal rückt Jaime Hernadez auch Maggie und ihren Ex-Freund Ray in den Mittelpunkt. Ray ist inzwischen in Vivian verknallt, scheint aber nicht wirklich weiter zu kommen bei ihr, und denkt noch oft an Maggie, die inzwischen bei Izzy ausgezogen und Managerin einer Zimmervermietung geworden ist. Hopey lebt inzwischen mit einer Frau namens Rosie zusammen und trägt eine Augenklappe, weil sie Glassplitter ins Auge bekommen hat. Für alle drei dreht sich das Liebeskarussell aber weiter. Rosie zieht bei Hopey aus, die sich etwas mit ihrer Brillenverkäuferin vorstellen könnte. Vivien testet Maggie an, ist aber auch in den Gangster Sid verliebt, obwohl der sie wie Dreck behandelt. Ray sehnt sich nach beiden, während Hopey eine Hünin namens Alarma anhimmelt, die in Maggies Gebäudekomplex wohnt. Auf diese Weise kommt bald Angel ins Spiel, die auch von allen gemocht wird.Erfreulicherweise ist "Esperanza" wieder mal ein ziemlich geradliniger Band, der sich in seinen 246 Seiten Umfang auf seine vier bis fünf Hauptprotagonisten konzentriert und nur gelegentlich abschweift. Zwar gibt es auch hier wieder moderat gelegentliche weirde Tagträume, im allgemeinen wird aber eine durchgängige Story unter mehreren Aspekten erzählt, was durchaus eine Stärke von Jaime Hernandez ist.

Boa leitura, com os personagens já conhecidos.