Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror

author: Roger Langridge

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.94

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2013/08/11

date added: 2013/08/11

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror is a pure treat. Roger Langridge has created a nice homage to the era of the 1930s (including a great introduction). The book feels more in tune with The Rocketeer movie than the comics, but it's still a nice nod to the creation of Dave Stevens.



There is still plenty of Rocketeer action and all the usual characters, but it all plays out against a wonderful background of Hollywood characters that are familiar and fun to try to guess. There is also an interesting subplot with a couple of goons trying to take away the rocket pack. The narrator shows up in the beginning, then disappears for a couple issues, but the reveal is a wonderful touch.



J Bone's art fits nicely. It's a cartoony style with caricatures of Hollywood stars of the era, and it works so very well. Betty looks a little like Betty Page, the Rocketeer is gangly, and the villain looks like a mad scientist from old horror films. The covers by Walter Simonson are worthy of framing. Included are alternate covers. A nice tribute to serials and pulp fiction.





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