Love and Rockets collection

Love and Rockets are one of my favorite comics of all time. They were the first comics I ever started reading. Their written by Jamie and Gilbert Hernandez, I mostly like the ones by Jamie. Jamie's "Locas" stories are about Hopey, Maggie, Penny Century, Izzy (their the ones pictured) and lots of others, but the stories mostly happen around Maggie and Hopey. The original stories are from the early eighties and and reflects the mexican punk scene although it mostly takes place in the fictional south californian town Hoppers or Huerta. The characters are mostly female and and a lot of them lesbian or sexually ambiguous. The series was revived in 2001 and the characters have grown and changed immensely and appropriately, since the eighties. There is also a ongoing sixties space theme in the stories that I love but mostly in the early ones. Other ongoing themes are women's professional wrestling, heavy girls, superheroes, strippers, mechanics. It's aslo an incredibly well drawn line and ink artwork. Favorite non-central characters are "Daffy" the blond asian punk, later in life a doctor, Negra Costigan (H.R Costigans daughter) and Doyle, a friend of Hopey's brother...I could go on. I honestly can't describe how much I love these comics, but there you go.

Notice the 60s space theme and Frieda Khalo