Archive for: Jaime Hernandez
“Lightning Only Strikes Twice Once, Y’Know”: Phallic Mothers, Fetishism, and Replacement in the comics of Los Bros Hernandez (Part II)
The phallic mother, fetishism, and nostalgia in Locas.
Disjointed Glimpses, or The Wrong Way to Read Locas
Reading a Jaime comic brings to mind the old cliche about listening to Jazz – “It’s not about the notes they play, it’s about the notes they DON’T play.”
Rereading the Locas Stories
The Locas stories have their moments, but overall, they’re an erratic, haphazardly conceived mess.

