Angels and Magpies: The Love and Rockets Library Vol. 13

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By Jaime Hernandez

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Angels and Magpies brings together the sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen in a masterful collection. It features the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and The Love Bunglers graphic novels, alongside Hernandez’s 2006 serial from The New York Times. The stories range from Maggie’s visit to Queen Rena, a retired wrestler adventuress living in seclusion, to a screwball showdown between Angel of Tarzana, Maggie, and Dark Penny Century. The acclaimed "Love Bunglers" interweaves past and present as Maggie and Ray face challenges from long-hidden family secrets, marking it as one of Hernandez’s finest works and a highlight of the Locas storyline in this thirteenth volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library.
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Angels and Magpies is ideal for readers who appreciate mature graphic novels with complex characters and layered storytelling, particularly fans of Jaime Hernandez’s work and the Love and Rockets series. It suits those interested in nuanced explorations of family, identity, and heroism, delivered through engaging visuals and rich narratives.

The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in this newest collection from comics master Jaime Hernandez.

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The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in Angels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and The Love Bunglers graphic novels from the Love and Rockets Vol. III: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 serial for The New York Times.

In the latter, Maggie pays a visit to Queen Rena, who is living out her twilight days on an island after a lifetime as a wrestler and an adventuress. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin when Angel of Tarzana and Maggie square off against Dark Penny Century.

In the "Love Bunglers," held as perhaps Hernandez's greatest masterpiece in his decades-spanning career, and one of the great graphic novels of all time (it was hailed by Slate and Publishers Weekly as one of the best stories of the year), the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray's reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.

This is the thirteenth volume in The Complete Love and Rockets Library and chronologically the sixth part of the Locas storyline.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683960904

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 December 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Edition: Volume 13

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 260

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Education & Reference Fiction Graphic Novels Jaime Hernandez

About the Author

Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime's work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium's history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children's book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.