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Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Los Bros Hernandez

Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 4

On sale date: October 17, 2011

More romantic travails for Maggie (in the sequel to the acclaimed "Browntown") — plus vampires!

With Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved "Loca" Maggie after a three-year hiatus, and the resultant stories — one ("The Love Bunglers") set in the here and now detailing Maggie's continued romantic travails, and one, the heartrending "Browntown" (which was immediately hailed as one of the very best stories in the 30-year history of the series), set in her teenage days and involving some previously unseen members of her family.

Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 picks up both of these storylines, first with the conclusion to "Love Bunglers" (did Maggie really dump Ray again?), then with a sequel of sorts to "Browntown" in which teenage Maggie returns to Hoppers and a new life.

Meanwhile, on the Gilbert side of town, High Soft Lisp's Fritz returns in "Talkabout," a 15-page dialogue with an old beau. Second up is the 35-page "King Vampire": Two lovable teens, Cecil and Trini, want to join a local vampire club but real vampires show up and things get serious. Cecil loves it but Trini has her doubts about going all the way. But wait — is this a real story or another "Fritz movie"? Some of the characters look awfully familiar!

Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 4 is part of the Love and Rockets series.
Our web store won't be receiving any more stock of Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 4, but you may be able to find it from a site like Indiebound or Bookshop, or at your local independent bookstore.

Praise

"…Jaime Hernandez… completes a long-running narrative without grandiose preening, and the art is full of expression and effortless charm. The final pages speed toward a finish that will satisfy new readers and bring bittersweet conclusion for fans." — Alex Carr - Omnivoracious (Amazon.com)

"Even in a long career of masterpieces, Jaime's story about missed opportunities for happiness is a revelation, while Gilbert continues to cement his place as the Jorodowsky of comics with a vampire tale." — Publishers Weekly

"It should go without saying by now that any new volume of Love and Rockets is a must for any serious comics fan... New Stories 4 is... one of the major events of the comics year..." — Noel Murray - The A.V. Club

"Symphonic, tragic, revelatory, exciting and devastating as only great art can be, 'The Love Bunglers' is one of the best comics ever made." — Joe Gross - The Austin American-Statesman

"Every now and then, if I'm lucky, I might just bump into a stone cold masterpiece. The kind of art that makes you just want to shout and scream it is so good. So, in the interest of doing just that, let me say that Jaime Hernandez's 'The Love Bunglers' is such a work…. This is not just Jaime's finest work, but one of the best… works ever created in the medium." — Dan Nadel - The Comics Journal

Specs

Pages
104
Format
Paperback / Softback
Color
Black and white
Dimensions
7.6" × 9.3"
ISBN-13
9781606994900
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