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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Perla La Loca

Perla La Loca

Hernandez, Jaime

Paperback

Series: The Complete Love and Rockets Library, Book 6

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Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 156097883X
ISBN13: 9781560978831
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The fifth book in The Complete Love and Rockets Library is the third in the classic Locas comics storyline. Perla La Loca begins with the Wigwam Bam, arguably writer-artist Jaime Hernandez's definitive statement on post-punk culture. As Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between, they try to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days. Wigwam Bam brings us up to date on all the members of Jaime's extensive cast of characters and then drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in the very last pages. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas (the Chester Square that serves as the title of two of the strongest stories in the book), where she has to contend with both her own inner demons, a murderous foe, and Camp Vicki, where she has to fend off her aunt Vicki's attempts to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of champ-to-be, Gina.

These stories originally appeared circa 1990-1996 in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comic book series, also featuring work by Jaime's brothers, Gilbert and Mario. Characters change as they age in real-time in stories that span generations. L&R has been called the greatest American comic book series of all time by Rolling Stone and a great, sprawling American novel by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations.

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