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jameshamill1997's review against another edition
4.0
With a bunch of different creators each contributing a piece, there's something in here for every Rocketeer fan. It's what's great about anthologies. It also further explores the world imagined by Dave Stevens and satisfies that craving left after reading the original work or watching the movie. It's not meant to be consumed in one sitting, but rather it provides 12 days worth of short comics stories. I bought my copy in the discount bin of my local comic shop (LCS), and if you manage to find it in the discount bin of your LCS, I highly recommend you snag it.
blacksentai's review against another edition
2.0
I don't know about this. I like the rocketeer well enough, but I only really enjoyed two stories in this anthology. Anthologies are hard to review in general. Is one truly great story enough to buoy some mediocre stuff? Is there one story so abhorrent that it drags everything else down?
The Darwyn Cooke Story is probably my favorite in there followed by the Dave Gibbons Scott Hampton story. Not everything was bad. But none of the other stories were really memorable to me. Too many of these stories (even the ones I liked) just beat the 'Cliff is jealous' drum a bit too hard. Betty is always falling out of her clothes. And sure, that's a feature of the old stuff, but when every story does it the anthology loses most to all of it's appeal. I'm not a fan of jealous guy can't handle actress girlfriend's lifestyle stories anyway. It's not just that these are brought up in many of these stories, it's that they're the central component to many of these stories.
Some of the stories in here just don't make sense. Feels like they're part of a bigger issue and just never get fleshed out. There's one where all the characters just say a bunch of words and none of it means anything and then the story ends. The prose story was boring too.
I don't know. Ultimately if you love the rocketeer you'd probably get a kick out of it, but if you're not gaga over the premise there's other books to read. If you catch it at the library though it's definitely worth checking out for the couple of good stories in there.
The Darwyn Cooke Story is probably my favorite in there followed by the Dave Gibbons Scott Hampton story. Not everything was bad. But none of the other stories were really memorable to me. Too many of these stories (even the ones I liked) just beat the 'Cliff is jealous' drum a bit too hard. Betty is always falling out of her clothes. And sure, that's a feature of the old stuff, but when every story does it the anthology loses most to all of it's appeal. I'm not a fan of jealous guy can't handle actress girlfriend's lifestyle stories anyway. It's not just that these are brought up in many of these stories, it's that they're the central component to many of these stories.
Some of the stories in here just don't make sense. Feels like they're part of a bigger issue and just never get fleshed out. There's one where all the characters just say a bunch of words and none of it means anything and then the story ends. The prose story was boring too.
I don't know. Ultimately if you love the rocketeer you'd probably get a kick out of it, but if you're not gaga over the premise there's other books to read. If you catch it at the library though it's definitely worth checking out for the couple of good stories in there.
tmpowers's review against another edition
2.0
Didn't really dig it. I found most of the stories to be dull and formulaic.
thecommonswings's review against another edition
2.0
Reread because I’m getting rid of them - I remember being lukewarm at best about this and I can definitely see why. The art is frequently beautiful, but the stories are just the same thing again and again with very few variations. I’m also frustrated that there is only one female creator in this because it really feels like a succession of artists who should and do know better having an excuse to draw Betty in cheesecake poses again and again and again
depreydeprey's review against another edition
4.0
The high highs more than make up for the natural unevenness of this anthology and what a pleasure to read one last Darwyn Cooke story.
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