I was on Amazon, drunk-shopping as I do, and I clicked on and bought "Locas," a giant hardcover book with all the Maggie and Hopey stories from Love & Rockets. It's been about the best thing I've read in a long time. I can't even express what a wonderful book this is. I remember getting some of these same comics in the mail, back in 1985. Then I stopped following it for a while, and then the series ended. I was a little nervous to read the old stories again because they were such a part of my late teens. But it was as good as I remember and then it got better as the characters got older and did things I wasn't familiar with. I stayed up last night to finish it because it's too heavy to take on our trip this weekend. The physical experience of reading it is so transfixing. You have to not touch the black parts of the images, because your hand leaves a blue mark. I'm so happy to have this book.

Reading it also unearthed memories of when I first read these, in 1984 or 1985, and I had one of those dreams where someone who is dead now comes to you so vividly, with details you wouldn't remember if you tried consciously to remember them. You wake up with a nice feeling of having really spent time with them.