Hopey, a mohawked imp, is more opaque, a symbol of the youthful rebellion of punk rock that all the characters are trying to return to in some way, even as real life sweeps them further away from their dreams.
Maggie is a magnificent comics character, a tempestuous naïf who wears her heart on her sleeve when she's not throwing it at a succession of bad boys who ignore her, even though Hopey is secretly the love of Maggie's life. Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories Writer/Artist: Jaime Hernandez In a review, Davis-McElligatt (2007) characterizes Locas: Jaime Hernandez's Locas is a.
Hernandez's main characters are Maggie and Hopey, two adorable lesbian rockers who start out in a somewhat vague relationship and are then are separated by adventures both grand and demeaning. This second omnibus volume of Locas tales by Jaime Hernandez - collecting over a dozen years worth of stories from the award-winning Love and Rockets comics. A deluxe, giant hardcover that compliments brother Gilberts Palomor book of last year. These superb stories from the nearly 20-year run of Love and Rockets define a world of Hispanic gang warfare, '80s California, punk rock, women wrestlers and the subtle battle to stay true to oneself. Focusing on Jaime Hernandez's 'Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories,' part of the 'Love and Rockets' comic series, I argue that the graphic landscape of this understudied comic offers an illustration of the theories of space in relation to race, gender, and sexuality that have been critical to understandings of Chicana sexuality.
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