For this week’s women’s comic I read the Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez. It’s not a comic done by women, but it more like a comic that attract lots female readers. The most memorable story I read is “LOCAS vs LOCOS”. It’s hard to pick up the characters and story right away because I have no idea of its story in the past. It has a very strong black and white style with graphic style usage of black space. The story focuses on dealing with problem and social life of some young boys and girls. The main characters are girls, and all of them have very strong personally that make each of them unique and believable. I believe that’s one of the main reasons why this attracts many female readers.
It has a strong punk and anti-culture style in the characters. The story isn’t sometime crazy or unique, but it’s about daily things we all need to deal with. The catch is realism and in depth personality and emotion of the characters dealing with those little things. The dialog is a little long for my own taste, but it also helps to build up the story and personality of the characters. One thing I have to complain about its art style is that all the character feels like the same person with different clothing and hair on it, sometime I can’t really tell which is the girl, and which is the boy.
In some other comics I found the female characters all share the same personality, and the male character is the one that has unique personality that develop throughout the story…but In Love and Rockets it feel the other way around. The male characters still have unique and personality, but the female characters is the one that make the story truly shine.
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