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| Flies On the Ceiling (Love & Rockets, 9) | 
 enlarge | Author: Los Bros Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2108531
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1560970723
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781560970729
ASIN: 1560970723
Publication Date: August 2001
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel. Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez.
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| Customer Reviews:
Maggie and Hopey together again July 4, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This probably isn't the best place to start reading Love and Rockets, since it directly follows the events of Death of Speedy but otherwise, there's a lot to like in Flies on the Ceiling. A lot of details are filled in about many of the characters' lives. Flies on the Ceiling includes an account of Izzy's time in Mexico, which I thought was really well done. And also a brief "origin story" of Terry Downe. Those two were some of my favorites. The main body of the collection though is about Maggie and Hopey's reunion. After Hopey left to go on tour with her band, Maggie had no idea where she was. In the course of the story we also an account of what happened to Hopey after we last saw her in Death of Speedy. It's really amazing how Jaime Hernandez can put so much into a few panels, so that years or even decades of a person's life can be summed up in a few pages, but all the same you feel like you got a rich and satisfying story.
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