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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 10, 2017 18:56:19 GMT -5
I've read a few TPB of this series. Are there any die hard fans of this series?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 19:13:16 GMT -5
I've just started exploring the series, and have only read the MAggie the Mechanic collection. I have a a couple more on my shelf, and Hoopla has a bunch, so I intend to delve deeper into it, but I really like what I have read so far.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 10, 2017 19:38:08 GMT -5
It's my favorite comic of all time. The latest issue that came out was fantastic.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 10, 2017 22:26:54 GMT -5
Sure did; and as Bauhaus.... (Nice gams in that video)  Loved the series; but, came to it very late in the run. I kept hearing about it; but, never saw an issue anywhere, until I was working for B&N and we got the last issues of the original series. The, I started to get a few of the collections and the Locas Omnibus. I have digital now. I tend to prefer Jaime's stories, particularly his art style. The lucha-centric ones are a blast, as an old wrestling fan and loved his mini-series, Whoa, Nellie!, with Xochitl and Gina. He did these pin-up pages of different lady wrestlers (mostly teams), with title belts, that looked like they came straight out of the old wrestling magazines. Darn good story on that one and part of what I really liked on that finals Locas storyline, in the original series. |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 10, 2017 22:27:23 GMT -5
I read the first three trades and liked and respected them to the maximum amount that a person can before actually feeling the desire to buy a fourth volume. I appreciate it, but not to the extent that several others here clearly do.
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Post by berkley on Dec 10, 2017 23:54:53 GMT -5
I've been a regular reader since I think it was #26 of the first series and rate it as one of the all-time best series of any kind, ever. I think it's so good that I'd like to say it transcends the medium - but as soon as I type those words I start to think how much of its excellence would likely be missed by anyone relatively unfamiliar with comics.
I think it's best read in order, in the collections, because there is a progression and a development to both the writing and the characters themselves.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 11, 2017 5:47:12 GMT -5
I have the first trade and Maggie the Mechanic but I'm meh about the series. It's like Seinfeld- a series about nothing.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 11, 2017 6:51:59 GMT -5
(...) one of the all-time best series of any kind, ever. Absolutely. Love & rockets ranks among the best of anything, not only comics. It is the kind of creation that absolutely transcends its origins. Jaime and Gilbert both have crafted worlds that get richer and more engrossing year after year, showing the Big Two how to craft decades-long series without ever resorting to overexploitation and self-parody. Locas and Palomar are the kind of comics that absolutely deserve recognition by the major literature award committees of this world. |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 11, 2017 8:08:39 GMT -5
Been reading the Los Bros Hernandez since their debut. Splendid storytelling and communicative artwork that you can sink into and forget about your own life while reading about the adventures of the vast family of Palomarians. And I have known a Maggie or two over the years so these characters do seem like old friends i have lost connection with and am meeting up and renewing our friendships.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Dec 11, 2017 12:52:28 GMT -5
I have been a fan since the first Fantagraphics issue, and it's probably my favorite comic of all time.
In the 80s I loved them equally, and maybe Beto a bit more, but lately I've not cared for the direction Gilbert has taken his characters.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 11, 2017 14:13:02 GMT -5
Can't say I'm an expert on L&R, as I've read some of the initial material in trades plus, occasionally, a few of the later specials and spin-off books, but I have to say I'm basically in the same camp as Roquefort Raider: I think it's the best of what comics can be.
(And just as an aside, based on what I've read so far, I like the Palomar material a little better, by a sliver maybe.)
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 11, 2017 14:20:49 GMT -5
I've been a regular reader since I think it was #26 of the first series and rate it as one of the all-time best series of any kind, ever. I think it's so good that I'd like to say it transcends the medium - but as soon as I type those words I start to think how much of its excellence would likely be missed by anyone relatively unfamiliar with comics. I think it's best read in order, in the collections, because there is a progression and a development to both the writing and the characters themselves. I'd start with Death of Speedy and Human Diastrophism, because the early stuff is a little rough. |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 11, 2017 15:15:06 GMT -5
Been reading the Los Bros Hernandez since their debut. Splendid storytelling and communicative artwork that you can sink into and forget about your own life while reading about the adventures of the vast family of Palomarians. And I have known a Maggie or two over the years so these characters do seem like old friends i have lost connection with and am meeting up and renewing our friendships. Oh gods yes. I've seen so much of my life as a lot of Jaime's characters. I'm living the life of Ray; I've been Doyle in my life being homeless, I've dated a few Maggies, Hopeys, and Vivians and a Luba or two. Even though its a culture I know well, the characters are so universal. Everyday life is exciting if done right in comics or any written format. You've grown up with these characters and if one passes one, it feels like you lost a family member. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 15:32:27 GMT -5
Loved the original Mechanix and Hoppers stories, but could never get into the Palomar stuff. I've read a few of the "New Love and Rockets" that have come out recently, and IMHO it's utterly jumped the shark - very little of the original life there in the Maggie series, and the rest is frankly rubbish. Though see DubipR's post above for a completely different opinion on it!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 15:36:54 GMT -5
I have the first trade and Maggie the Mechanic but I'm meh about the series. It's like Seinfeld- a series about nothing. It didn't really get going until a bit after that - it started out as a more fantastical series, being a bit of an uneasy mix of real life and sci-fantasy stuff, and then segued into a more urban soap opera thing. It works much better as a long-form series over many months than as a few issues here and there - you get really invested in the characters and their lives. The Palomar stuff never did anything for me, and in fact it was the adverts with Luba that put me off trying L&R in the first place - it made the series look like another amateurish T&A book. The Palomar series was a lot more than that, but it never grabbed me the way the Hoppers stuff did |
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