Love and Rockets #16

In "House of Raging Women," Rena returns to the wrestling ring with a fury that surprises even her rivals, chasing a title shot against Vicki Glori while grappling with a past that won’t stay buried. As tensions rise and old wounds surface, Vicki shares a startling truth with Maggie—Rena’s absence from their long-awaited rematch wasn’t by choice, but because she was pregnant. Now, as Rena balances her fierce ambition with the quiet anticipation of motherhood, her hopes for her son Antonio’s presence at her side hang in the balance, caught between the ring and the life she’s trying to build.

In "A True Story," the artist recalls a fleeting but vivid moment from the past: a chance encounter with wrestler Keith Franks—before he became Adrian Adonis—just before a performance. The memory captures the strange, electric stillness of that brief meeting, a quiet intersection between two lives that would later diverge into very different worlds.