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This excerpt is from Jaime Hernandez's "Penny Century: A Love and Rockets Book," which collects stories from his solo comic "Penny Century" and his subsequent return to "Love and Rockets" (Volume II). The book starts with a story about Maggie, a pro-wrestler, experiencing the world of professional wrestling for the first time. Other stories in the book include "Whoa, Nellie!," which features Maggie's friend Penny Century, and "The Race," which is a romantic dream fantasia. "Bay of Threes" and "Home School" are two flashback stories.
Wrestling, romance, and more in the fourth collection of Maggie stories from Love and Rockets. Picking up right after
Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive Maggie" series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez's solo comic
Penny Century and his subsequent return to
Love and Rockets (Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved "Locas."
But first... wrestling!
Penny Century starts off with a blast with "Whoa, Nellie!," a unique graphic novelette in which Maggie, who has settled in with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and woolly world first-hand.
Then it's back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey, Ray Dominguez, and Izzy Ortiz-including Maggie's romantic dream fantasia "The Race" and the definitive Ray story, "Everybody Loves Me, Baby."
Penny Century also features two major "flashback" stories: "Bay of Threes" finally reveals the full back story behind Beatriz "Penny Century" Garcia, Maggie's long-time, bleached-blonde bombshell friend (who gives this volume its name and can currently be seen as a super-villainess in
Love and Rockets: New Stories), while "Home School" is one of Hernandez's popular looks at his characters' lives from when they were little kids, drawn in an adorable simplified
Dennis the Menace type style. 240 pages of black-and-white comics.
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