"Estos casi no son poemas de amor. Son poemas de mi amor. De un amor, quiero decir. Y son también de mi deseo. Así ¿a quién más que a mi novio, o a aquellos amigos cercanos que me quieren, o a mí, podrían interesar? Temo que para otros podrían resultar muy aburridos. Es probable. Porque Fray Luis comentó algo acerca de un pasaje del libro que Salomón le hizo a su amada: si alguien ve de lejos, sin oír la música que los anima, a una pareja que baila, así, sordo, solo verá un par de monigotes moverse como idiotas. Y es cierto. Pero fray Luis también creía que justamente por eso valen, y son bellos, los escritos sobre amores. Porque a veces evocan esa música; la que los dos danzaron. Acaso, a pesar de mi torpeza, haya sido yo capaz de hacer sonar algo de ella en estas líneas. Ojalá así sea". -          Fernando Molano Vargas, en 1997 "Todas mis cosas en tus bolsillos es un conjunto de vestigios e invocaciones del amor a un ausente, y están escritos al filo de la propia ausencia; es un collar de poemas de muerte, como lo son todos los poemas de 'un amor'". -          Del prólogo escrito por Carolina Sanín

The fifth book in The Complete Love and Rockets Library is the third in the classic "Locas" comics storyline. Perla La Loca begins with the "Wigwam Bam," arguably writer-artist Jaime Hernandez's definitive statement on post-punk culture. As Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between, they try to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days. "Wigwam Bam" brings us up to date on all the members of Jaime's extensive cast of characters and then drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in the very last pages. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas (the "Chester Square" that serves as the title of two of the strongest stories in the book), where she has to contend with both her own inner demons, a murderous foe, and Camp Vicki, where she has to fend off her aunt Vicki's attempts to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of champ-to-be, Gina.These stories originally appeared circa 19901996 in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comic book series, also featuring work by Jaime's brothers, Gilbert and Mario. Characters change as they age in "real-time" in stories that span generations. L&R has been called "the greatest American comic book series of all time" by Rolling Stone and "a great, sprawling American novel" by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations.