![]() ![]() This final collection of Jaime's "Locas" stories from Love and Rockets (vol. I'll always try to wrap my head around praise from a wise professor of these arts as long as they can also speak objectively but once anything needs the highest caliber of expertise for appreciation it has failed as art and become something dry. Is Esperanza becoming an adult or waiting hopefully for the right reason to re-lapse?īack to Beto: Most who laud him (post-2000) as brilliant are either trying to make you think, along with themselves, that they're on some higher plain of understanding or faking it as part of the industry's hype machine. Will Ray ever get laid with that gross lip-sweater? Jaime suffers not from hubris- he humors his audience with what they want now which will, as all excellent work does, be admired in retrospect AS WELL. He must be entranced by the usually-poisonous potion that ego and admiration can ferment which makes a writer THINK that people will look back on his titivated blubbering throughout trite voyages of over-ambitious hysteria and call him a visionary*. He does nearly the opposite of Beto who beats and bahoozles around his own bushes oppressively burdening readers with boundless assininity without appropriate consideration of aspect or appeal. Jaime has a great feel for his readers' interest in his work and wisely tunes it, with panache, to keep us attentive and eager. As does Maggie, well off stage but visible as Ray's resentful ex, Angel's roommate, and (forever and still) Hopey's best friend.Īnd rockets, like mind-fucks and murders, helped the recent putt-putt plot pushing muster some shove! New characters include Hopey's long-suffering on-the-side squeeze Grace Maggie's new roommate, the sweet-natured jockette "Angel of Tarzana " and the live-wire would-be gangsta Elmer - while such classic Love and Rockets characters as the hard-living Doyle, the aging but still-rocking Terry, and the mysterious super-heroine Alarma pop up in the margins. Meanwhile, Hopey spends an eventful week during which she undergoes a couple of major life changes, both personal and professional. all the way to the ultimate, and unexpected, consummation. Even though (or perhaps because) he's still carrying the torch for Maggie, Ray diligently pursues the dangerous and annoying "Frogmouth," aspiring actress and full-time train wreck, from seedy bars and back alleys through comic book conventions. It starts with a barely-glimpsed slaying ("Life Through Whispers") and ends with a funeral ("Male Torso Found in L.A. this is causing me so much effing stress, I can't even focus on anything.A graphic novel collecting Love and Rockets stories from the "Locas" universe. ![]() i have become very, very depressed because of this and of course could not call over this weekend to clarify anything and when I go for that next scan I will be telling them that I am not leaving until I know everything is REALLY okay & I'm not waiting fucking days again for results to come through. she basically told me it's very common for these things to need a second scan as the baby is still quite small and it is hard to get good pictures of the heart, etc. ![]() I called back and got an extremely rude lady who did not want to share any info with me as she was only the 'receptionist' & I'd have to wait until this coming Monday to call again and speak to someone who knows a little more. A few days later I got a missed call and a voice ail stating I will need to return in 2 weeks time for another scan, I will include picture below of the results. Our ultrasound technician kept saying the entire time baby was doing 'so good' and being 'so good' and she said everything looked great, she left the room then came back and had me lay down again where she tried for a couple more pictures of the heart & then said the Dr said it was all good & my husband and I were good to go. ![]()
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