The main stories here are not with the main Love and Rockets characters, which surprised me in the first "new stories" edition (since I've read a lot of the others already). Anyhow the main stories here are superhero team stories including Maggie's roommate Angel and their neighbor Alarma, as well as Penny Century. The Beto story I've read elsewhere, and liked, about psychedelic, fatal burrito worms, is also in here, as well as the one-pager Victory Dance.

The Ti-Girls have forever changed my view of the super hero. You don't have to be young, beautiful, or super svelte to kick bad guys' asses! I'm there, baby! If I can just remember where I put those tights...

I'm a baby in the world of comics so I had no idea what these were but I already love them. And what's not to love? A ton of characters of color, both more conventional and more absurdist plots, smart references and a superhero unit of older and fatter women. So excited for more!

I realised a couple things after reading just a few pages of this book: 1) I’d read the first story before in Jaime Hernandez’s God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls book, and 2) of all the Hernandez brothers, Gilbert is the only one whose stories I really enjoy. Jaime’s art is fine but his writing and Mario’s are beyond boring. God and Science? I gave up on that one after just 6 pages! In fact, I don’t think I’ve finished a single Jaime book and only got through ones with his name on because

I'm not sure about this so far. I loved Gilbert's "Victory Dance", but most of his strips seemed a fair bit lower quality than that one. Jaime's Ti-Girls was by far my favourite of the collection, very creative and sentimental .

This one features some of the Hernandez brothers shorter works from their indy hit Love And Rockets comic. It's an odder than usual mish mash but still featuring all that nuanced silver age Kirby-esque, Ditko-esque, whoever-esque crazy pencils.If this stuff had really graced the funny pages though I guess there would have been a few more deaths attributed to choking on Rice Crispies at the breakfast table (other tasty breakfast cereals are available). The most accessible material here though is

The art is kinda cool - lots of REALLY curvy girls. But the stories are loopy - hard to follow. Some of it amused me because it was pretty rediculous.

I don't see what all the fuss is about - but perhaps I started with the wrong one.

I don't know what happened here. Jaime and Beto have recently been doing the best work of their careers (Jaime's mature and nuanced Locas stories and his "Maggie" extended story, and Beto's recent New Tales of Old Palomar), but this issue - the first of L&R's new yearly, chunky format - is a major regression for both of the primary brothers. Jaime's story returns to the early sci-fi days of the Locas stories, but Maggie's in about two panels, Hopey none, and everything centers on Angel, Maggie's...

Some of the spark is missing from this one. The Penny Century story redeems things somewhat but seems like an odd pisstake on superhero tropes. It's likely this will grow on me more once I read the following volumes.

I saw this standing alone in the library's graphic novel section and knew I'd heard good things about Love and Rockets. It's marked "no. 1" so I assumed it'd be a good way to start at the beginning.Didn't matter that it ended up being not at the beginning at all. Every Hernandez Brothers story in this collection is fantastic and has compelled me to go back and read the original series, epic as it may be.Altogether, this turned out to be one of the most socially conscious, insightful comics/graph...

I was first introduced to Love and Rockets through the free comic book day sample a few years ago. I finally decided to check this out from my library. I absolutely ate this up. Its exactly what I'm looking for in a comic book. I can't wait to go back and start with the original run of Love and Rockets.

This is my first time reading any if the graphic novels by the Hernandez brothers and I'm just blown away by it.Especially the super-heroic tale Ti-Girls Adventures that bookends this first volume. I have not read a super-hero story that has all women as main characters but Jaime Hernandez makes it look easy. His art has a Silver Age sensibility to have both equal servings of action and storytelling. Not a dull moment to be had in this graphic novel.

These stories were not amazing, but they were extremely fun. The artwork is fast and loose, and the humor is extremely tongue in cheek. These reminded me of earlier comics, and adhere to a lot of the Golden and Silver age conventions. Also, can I just say I quite enjoy the idea of a super hero team made up of all the characters the other teams wouldn't accept?

I requested this on accident (I was looking for the new Love and Capes Vol. 1: Do You Want To Know A Secret?) but figured I would give it a try. This is not for me. There are two stories that are part of an ongoing series, but this isn't an easy place for the reader to jump in. There were a number of other pieces, none of which were my style.

More Los Bros Hernández work, with Jaime Hernández's superhero Penny Century universe and some magical real shorts by Gilbert Hernández and Mario Hernández. These amazing Mexican-American brothers who given a voice to minorities and women for so many decades continue to expand their collaboratively created universes. 7 out of 12, makes this the weakest collection yet.

For being a self-professed fan of the alt-graphic novel, I have just recently entered the world that is The Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets. If you would like to boo and throw tomatoes at me, I’d understand. But, having taken the tour, this newbie says that it’s a pretty nifty realm. Jaime’s “Ti-Girls Adventures Part One: The Search for Penny Century” and “Part Two: Penny is Found” is the featured story to open and close Vol. 1, which is an interesting and unique take on the superhero genre...

Well I finally got around to reading the first volume of Love and Rocket: New Stories and I gotta say it was a bit underwhelming. I always liked how in the past Jaime would mix up sci-fi and superhero type stuff w/real world drama but in this volume at least he sticks w/mostly a superhero type story and it drags big time. The art is top-notch as is always w/Jaime but the story is pretty blah. Then there's Beto's contributions which much like the recent (to me) story I read in Mome #19 are pretty...

I am a big fan of Locas. So, I tried those New Stories and I have mixed feelings.This volume consists from short stories from all three Hernández brothers. I have to say that I really enjoyed the part from Jaime: the story how Penny Century has obtained long desired super-powers. That one was as good as the good old Locas.The stuff from Gilbert was just complementary to me. Not bad, but I would rather spend my money on something else. So, I'm in doubts - to buy, or not to buy the next volume?

Quality weirdness from Los Bros Hernandez - haven't read any L&R for years, since before I started on Goodreads, and now can't remember why that is. Good characters, mind-bending stories with roots in pop & Latin culture, suspiciously clean draftsmanship. Will look for future "New Stories" collections.