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We share these books because they are the ones that excited us this month. Share it with us. Or spread the word and tell a friend. Hollywood Horror , The Rocketeer: Friends, mutants and aliens, lend me your ears! Join us as we travel back to the future, to a time when heroes roamed the sky and science paved the way for a better tomorrow! A time of ancient robots and futuristic gladiators! Atomic monkeys and electric guitars! Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Future Past….
A s pulp hero created in the s and revived in the s? Who better to exemplify nostalgia for an innocent era that never was than The Rocketeer? Some characters however, are simply too good to fade away. Folks, this may be the best new Rocketeer yarn yet.
Well Langridge goes five steps further and fully immerses him in the era. This should perhaps come as no surprise from a writer whose past work has encompassed everything from the slapstick of early cinema Fred the Clown , hysterical to Carrollian nonsense Snarked!
Further, he entangles our hero with fictional characters specific to that time: Between this and the multitude of references to old movies and forgotten actors the narrator himself seems to be one , this book is a dream for lovers of pulp and classic Hollywood. His work stands well with Darwyn Cooke and Jeff Smith one wishes he was handling the covers as well; nothing against the legendary Walt Simonson, but his style, all harsh angles and frenetic line, is simply a poor fit — my one quibble.
All in all Langridge and Bone are crafting a Rocketeer comic that is not only worthy of its legacy, but builds on it. Somewhere, I daresay, Dave Stevens is smiling.
In fact, my first experience with the character was The Cargo of Doom. Oh, trust me; there are people who know way more about The Rocketeer than I do. What about the movie? No, really, I liked what Waid and Samnee did in their mini. In fact, I passed on this one—initially, anyway. Dude, you were so right. What a good time! Their centuries-spanning pseudo-epic is rich in taste but refreshingly light in calories. Part buddy-story, part sibling-rivalry, part worldwide-conspiracy, this frothy fable features improbable adventure and high satire. Writer Fred Van Lente with solid art by Emanuela Lupacchino and Guillermo Ortego garnishes the high-octane action with Big Ideas and comedic flourish, never failing to entertain.
His one misstep here though; in an attempt to counter the usual lighthearted tone with some emotional heft, he has the villain speak of his role in an event that is very like a recent national tragedy. Sure, Buddy Cops —an hilarious one-shot from a publisher that has been making its name seem more and more ironic with each passing week—seemed to come out of nowhere.
I have more than one. There was room enough in my bag and a few bucks still smoldering in my pocket, so I went for it; and I was not disappointed.
I laughed out loud and profess my love for this book even louder! And, borrowing from George Costanza, I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality: Ok, ok, it was funny.
Would that I could. In the midst of the Space Race, the costumed quartet were frequent fliers. Those early issues still crackle with energy and freshness.
As the years wore on however, FF inevitably transitioned from zeitgeist to nostalgia, revolutionary to venerable. One or all of them are also somehow involved in the fate of a space crew whose mission has somehow gone seriously awry. Here the comparison to FF is particularly instructive: The innocence of scientific discovery for its own sake has been replaced by the reality of serving corporate profit.
Technological advancement is understood as at least as destructive as it is creative.
And some are in between one of the more appealing characters seems to combine the brute strength and appearance of the Thing with the intellectual remove of Mr. I need to Login. Hollywood Horror 2 Page 10 The Rocketeer: Click on the The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 2 comic image to go to the next page.
Cliff Secord on the run! Betty in the clutches of the ghastly Otto Rune! And what is Peevy's connection to the missing scientist? All this and more as the. www.farmersmarketmusic.com: The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #2 eBook: Roger Langridge, J. Bone, Walt Simonson, Jordie Bellaire: Kindle Store.
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