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The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures by Dave Stevens

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This books follows the two Rocketeer stories by Dave Stephens in 144 pages told in eight installments, so yet it's pretty complete.

The Rocketeer definitely has a pseudo-golden age look and feel to it which makes it appealing. The Rocketeer is an appeal back to the more normal guy heroes that made up many comic books back in the day. The rocket is pretty cool and Clint is an interesting character. It works good as a high adventure period piece, with good art work and well-drawn characters.

The negatives in the story include the portrayal of Betty who really was portrayed one dimensionally and definitely as a sex object character. And then there was the whole serial killer over a spurned midget story that was dubious.

Still, the story itself was okay. One thing that bothered me about the book is I expect special editions to give me some context about the strip, its author, its legacy. At least an introduction. We get none of this. Instead, we get the comic strips which is okay. But the lack of context is why I gave it 3 rather than 4 stars.



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