I guess It’s about time I started tossing in a few of Comics’ lovely women civilians, and a smooth transition might be to feature Jaime Hernandez’s Penny Century, the regular gal whose one sole wish is to BECOME a real-life Super-Heroine!
Born Beatriz Garcia, Penny Century is one of the Love and Rockets characters that Jaime has constantly been fleshing out, so much that she has gone from being a one–dimensional bubble-headed blonde to one of Love and Rockets more endearing characters.
Although probably the finest Penny Century Story is the classic “Bay Of Threes” issue (where we finally get the back story of how Penny grew up and married Tycoon H.R. Costigan), the story that had us all howling and rolling on the floor with laughter has to be “Ninety-three Million Miles from the Sun”, when Ray and Maggie were invited to stay at Penny’s house. They are thrust into the world of Penny Century where the heiress spends the day dressing up like a super-heroine, duking it out with paid actors dressed as villains, and hitting on Ray mercilessly! This was the height of her loopiness, and she would slowly be tamed down and brought back to earth.
Penny Century
by Jaime Hernandez
[Love and Rockets]
