You have the book. You’ve soaked up its knowledge. But what’s better than talking about a good story with buds?
Get cozy and settle in for an enlightening chat with your favorite Vault Staff as we discuss our Book of the Month! In this monthly digital get together, a few staff members from each of our shops will meet up online and talk about our thoughts, feelings, and critiques about whichever book we have chosen for the month.
On the last Sunday of every month, Book Club meetings will be streamed to the Vault of Midnight Instagram page. We will also be announcing the book selection for the following month, so make sure you tune in to get the scoop!
The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with this, the second of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy―as well as the aging but still heroic wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seen in Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series), Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite surprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation from Hopey.
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