Mechanics
#2
(November 1985)
Fantagraphics,
1985 Series
- Price
- 2.00 USD; 2.70 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1985
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Recommended for Mature Readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, with border]
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- Kim Thompson (credited) (editorial co-ordination); Gary Groth (credited) (reprint material editor)
Issue Notes
1st printing: July 1985
[no title indexed]
Mechanics / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited); Impact Productions (credited) (color separations)
- Letters
- Kevin Nowlan (credited) (logo design); typeset
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Penny Century; Maggie Chascarillo; Hopey Glass; Rand Race; Rena Titañon; Tse Tse
- Reprints
-
in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #2 - Mechanics (May 1988)
-
- Keywords
- fight; struggle
Introduction
credits, title page / 1 page
- Script
- Wendy Pini (credited)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by a single small illustration and production / distributor credits with indicia.
Mechanics - Love and the Rocket
Mechanics / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Maggie Chascarillo
Indexer Notes
A silhouette illustration.
[Mechanics Parts 4 and 5]
Locas / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Tony Belle; Bernie Carbo; Maggie Chascarillo; Hopey Glass; Joey Glass; Daffy Matsumoto; Duke Morales; Izzy Ortiz; Speedy Ortiz; Rand Race; Rena Titañon; Tse Tse
- Reprints
-
from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983) [pts. 4-5 only] -
in USA magazine (Albin Michel, 1986 series) #26 (mars 1987), #27 (mai 1987)
-
- Keywords
- soap opera
Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch
Locas / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Genre
- drama; humor
- Characters
- Hopey Glass; Daffy Matsumoto; Izzy Ortiz
- Synopsis
- Hopey gets a homemade tattoo while discussing Maggie's trip with Izzy and Daffy.
- Reprints
- in USA magazine (Albin Michel, 1986 series) #27 (mai 1987)
- in Mechanics (Comics USA, 1988 series) ([janvier] 1988)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989)
- in Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 (March 1989)
-
in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006) - in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
- in Love and Rockets (Titan, 2007 series) #1 - Maggie the Mechanic (May 2007)
-
On the Road Ag'in, part two
Penny Century / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Characters
- Penny Century; H. R. Costigan; Norma (1st appearance); Bomber Bones; Big 'Turo; Eva Banchini; Greta
- Synopsis
- With Bomber in tow and back on the run from Costigan, Penny dies her hair to disguise herself from his spies. Once she finds out that Bomber has a wife, she goes back to Costigan. When Costigan's ex-wife turns up to make a scene, she flees yet again.
- Reprints
- in USA magazine (Albin Michel, 1986 series) #27 (mai 1987)
- in Love & Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) (August 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #4 - Tears from Heaven (January 1988)
- in Mechanics (Comics USA, 1988 series) ([janvier] 1988)
- in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #2 - Mechanics (May 1988)
- in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
- in Love and Rockets (Titan, 2007 series) #1 - Maggie the Mechanic (May 2007)
- in Love and Rockets (Komics Initiative, 2022 series) #1 - Maggie la Mécano (2022)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[8] - From Rockets to Love 1981 - 1996 (2022)
-
Out O' Space
Rocky and Fumble / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Colors
- Paul Rivoche (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Fumble; Rocky Rhodes; Monster [King Patrick]
- Synopsis
- Lost in space, Rocky and Fumble find refuge in a small planet only to have a run-in with Mad Patrick.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #4 (Fall 1983)
- in USA magazine (Albin Michel, 1986 series) #28 / 29 (juillet 1987)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Mechanics -
1.
Introduction
-
2.
Mechanics - Love and the Rocket
Mechanics -
3.
[Mechanics Parts 4 and 5]
Locas -
4.
Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch
Locas -
5.
On the Road Ag'in, part two
Penny Century -
6.
Fantagraphics Books- Excellence, Diversity, Integrity
-
7.
Out O' Space
Rocky and Fumble -
8.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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