Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book

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In this batch of “Locas” stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of Love and Rockets Volume II (picking up where 2010’s Penny Century collection left off), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the “Ghost of Hoppers” in a full-length graphic novel (which also introduces one of Jaime’s greatest recent characters, Vivian the “Frogmouth,” the near-psychotic bombshell).
Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey (her Spanish birth name giving this collection its title) transitions from tending bar to teaching kindergarten (while still juggling a complex love life), and the final quarter of the book shows Maggie’s lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling for the Frogmouth.
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Jaime Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning cartoonist and a lifelong Los Angelean.

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Fantagraphics Books
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Published on
Aug 17, 2011
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Pages
250
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ISBN
9781606994498
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English
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Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary
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