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A review by blacksentai
Rocketeer Adventures Volume 1 by Mike Allred, John Cassaday, Kurt Busiek
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.