The seminal underground comic Love & Rockets ended its 15-year run recently, as co-creators Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez chose to undertake other projects. Chester Square, Jaime Hernandez's final installment in his ongoing Locas epic, concerns the adventures of his chief heroine, the perennially insecure Maggie, after her breakup with girlfriend Hopey. Heartache and self-doubt set the tempo in Chester Square, with the themes more or less addressed in nearly every Locas tale—attitudes toward women, sexual identity and family in Mexican-American society—coming to a head. It's not the slam-bang finale one might expect; loose ends remain and there are few clear resolutions. In fact, with its ambiguity and often rambling pace, Chester Square may be Hernandez's ultimate departure from the "rockets" side of L&R. But Chester Square contains some well-conceived, painfully authentic moments to which many will relate—particularly the chapters detailing Maggie's slow drift through the alien West Texas landscape while lost, depressed and questioning her identity. Not all of Chester Square succeeds; sometimes the pace drags too much, a revival of one character distracts from the conclusion, and it's interesting to imagine how this downbeat material would fare if it were drawn by anyone other than the most gifted draftsman in comics today. As always, Hernandez's amazing, typically sharp black-and-white compositions convey an appropriately Badlands-like atmosphere, and the characters' anatomical renderings are diverse and precise. After 15 years, his work remains as strong as ever, and a new comic book about some of his L&R wrestler characters should help fans cope with the absence of Maggie and Hopey.