As a tribute to creator Dave Stevens, who passed away earlier this month, four contributors to Project Rooftop offer their takes on The Rocketeer.
“Mr. Stevens’ signature character’s costume remains so exceptionally pure and memorable, it hardly warrants revision,” PR editor Dean Trippe writes, “but in honor of his life and work, we asked several of our regular contributors to send us their ideas.”
March 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I looked at the pictures and thought they were lovely, but I was surprised that only one artist redesigned the rocket from the comic, all the rest based their design off the movie rocket.
It’s not a bad thing. I thought the movie rocket looked better. I just thought it was odd.
March 24th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Has there been any talk of a nice hardcover collection of all of Stevens’ Rocketeer material? It has seemed like a natural thing for years and especially now as a tribute to the man’s body of work.
I’ve only read sporadic Rocketeer stories over the years because I’ve never been able to find them. I absolutely adore the film and thought a big opportunity was missed by not packaging the existing comics together at that time. There must have been reasons then, but surely now we can get this done.
Anyone heard anything?