Penny Century

Penny Century by Jaime Hernández
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Penny Century collects material from Whoa Nellie 1-3, Maggie and Hopey Color Fun, Penny Century #1-7, and Love and Rockets Volume 2 #5.

So here we are again, another volume in Jaime Hernandez's masterpiece. This feels like a bridging volume in some ways. Xo and Gina move forward in their wrestling careers, Ray Dominguez struggles with life in the city, and the origin of Penny Century is told. Maggie gets divorced. H.R. Costigan dies. Maggie and Hopey progress in their relationship.

A lot of the book is just about the characters getting older. Jaime's art and writing are in peak form but not a ton of substantial things actually happen.

Penny Century is a transitional volume in the life of the Locas and the people in their orbit. As far as transitional volumes go, it's damn good. Four out of five stars.


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