God And Science: Return Of The Ti-Girls h/c back

Okay, I'm biased. It is my favourite series ever, so gimmie a break, ‘k? But seriously: any day I can read some L&R is a good day, and after thirty years Jaime and Gilbert still have more verve than 95% of the pap that we're bombarded with on a monthly basis. The only thing better than reading the comic would be being in it, which is kind of what happens to Maggie, Penny, and Angel in TI-GIRLS as they somehow become embroiled in a cosmic slugfest straight out of Maggie's secret stash of comic books. They'll have to do some serious thinking outside the panels to get out of this one.

In a dingy apartment complex, Maggie and Angel clock on to the true identity of Maggie's mysterious and ridiculously tall neighbour, Alarma... Call her crazy, but Maggie is convinced Alarma, the shy and retiring Alarma from the Fenomenons comics series, are one and the same! Easily duped, Angel dons her wrestling gear and goes out on the roof top to catch Alarma in the cape. But, as it turns out, Alarma's staking out the apartment for any sign of Maggie's insane and stunning friend Penny Century who's life-long dream to have super powers has finally and completly unexpectedly borne fruit. Now the whole universe is in peril! Will Angel wear the domino mask and save us from hyperbole and third person rhetoric with the help of aged Mexican super-team, The Ti-Girls?!

This is possibly the most outlandish of Jaime’s stories since the early ‘80s and he brings some old favourites out of retirement for the occasion like super-droid Cheatre Torpedo, and Retro Rocky (last seen in AMOR Y COHETES). But it's Penny's long-lamanted need for superpowers, one of the longest running themes in Jaime’s carear, finally explored and delivered with an ironic right hook, which still manages to be quinessential LOVE AND ROCKETS despite shakking off the oft-lauded ‘realistic’ trappings of his art.