God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Jaime Hernández, published in 2012 after serialization in Love and Rockets: New Stories in 2008–2009.
Content
The narrative of God and Science centers around Maggie Chascarrillo, the Mexican-American protagonist of Jaime Hernandez's long-running comic Locas in his (and brother Gilbert's) Love and Rockets comics. Though Maggie is only a supporting player in this book, Hernández situates her as "a pivotal figure at the border between the mundane world of the apartment complex she manages and the fantastic realm occupied by female superheroes and supervillains".
The story is the longest superhero tale Hernández has produced; it features characters from comic books that the character Maggie Chascarillo had collected in Hernández's previous stories, but which had not until this story appeared on their own.
Publication
The story first appeared in the comic book Love and Rockets: New Stories in 2008–2009, published by Fantagraphics Books. A stand-alone book edition appeared from the same publisher in 2012, to which Hernández added thirty pages and a new ending.
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