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Overview
Dig this scene! Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that even-lower-lifes want. BLING! Wes is a rock and roll loser that only wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or perform.
WAILIN'! He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough to get his dough. Wes needs help. Nala is an uber-stacked bombshell whose pleasure in life is to seduce and then humiliate men dumb enough to fall for her. HUSH HUSH! For half the dough, she agrees to help Wes get Dewey's ill-gotten goods. Things don't go so well when a wily grifter from Wes's past shows up to complicate things. GULP! Vincene is another troublemaker who enjoys wrecking people's plans and wants the Dewey dough, too. In the end, deadly fires ignite, heads literally roll, eyes are shot out — and all Wes wants to do is sing in a rock and roll club.
The Troublemakers is the second volume in a series of original graphic novels in which Gilbert Hernandez creates comics adaptations of movies starring or co-starring Luba's half-sister Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez from Love and Rockets. The first, the dystopian Chance in Hell
(in which Fritz has only a bit part), was released in 2007. This hard boiled, pulp graphic novel will delight longtime Hernandez fans as well as provide a perfect introduction to newcomers to Hernandez's work.
Synopsis
A drug dealer, a rock 'n' roll loser, an uber-stacked vixen, and a wily grifter: these greedy low-lifes are chasing the hard luck charm!
Beto's follow-up to Chance in Hell is a lurid, hard-boiled, pulpy delight!
Publishers Weekly
Hernandez combines magical realism with the glories of a pulp movie in this comic adaptation of an imaginary movie starring Rosabella “Fritz” Martinez from Love and Rockets. In this tale, four characters living on the fringes of society cross and double-cross each other in the quest for money and erotic pleasure. Wes, an aspiring rocker, plots to steal $200,000 from drug dealer Dewey, with the help of a bombshell magician’s assistant named Nala. The devious pixie Vincenze complicates matters, and soon no one knows whom to trust. Hernandez employs uniform panels in the proportions of a movie screen to emphasize the cinematic inspiration and tone of the story. Each one almost vibrates with the frenetic, desperate energy of the characters as they try to pull off their cons. That energy explodes in the final pages, as the story comes to a dramatic but ambiguous conclusion. In the end, the work offers an homage to B-movies while standing out as a graphic novel. The Troublemakers will please long-term Hernandez fans. It also should serve as a good introduction to newcomers looking to jump into the Love and Rockets universe. (Dec.)