{"id":7480,"date":"2012-11-17T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2012-11-17T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:49:13","slug":"hard-copy-the-rocketeer-experiences-a-hollywood-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7480","title":{"rendered":"Hard Copy: THE ROCKETEER Experiences a \u201cHollywood Horror\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing their relationship with Dave Stevens\u2019 high-flying her\"\"<\/a>o, IDW Publishing is pleased to announce a brand-new Rocketeer miniseries for 2013! Beginning in February, fans of Cliff Secord\u2019s aeronautic acrobatics will be treated to THE ROCKETEER: HOLLYWOOD HORROR! Written by Eisner and Harvey Award winner Roger Langridge (Thor, Popeye, Snarked!) and illustrated by Eisner nominee J. Bone (Batman\/The Spirit), Hollywood Horror is another action-packed chapter in the saga of comics\u2019 favorite flyboy! As an added bonus, legendary comics superstar Walter Simonson has signed on as cover artist!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can count the really great superheroes created since the 1960s without taking your shoes and socks off, and The Rocketeer would have to be somewhere near the top of that very short list, so it’s a great privilege to be writing his adventures,\u201d said Langridge. \u201cAnd I’m particularly thrilled to be working with J. Bone on the art chores. He\u2019s definitely an artist’s artist, in the best possible sense. We’re working hard to give this story our own personal twist without losing the classic Rocketeer tone, so you can expect plenty of fiendish schemes, famous cameos, derring-do, pretty girls and (of course) thrills galore!” he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger has given me so many terrific characters from the world of The Rocketeer and old Hollywood that drawing each scene excites me to get on to the next; and the next,\u201d said Bone. \u201cI enjoyed my initial taste of drawing the Cliff and Betty in The Rocketeer Adventures #4 so much that I’m thrilled to be drawing them again!\u201d<\/p>\n

Always caught in the middle, it\u2019s a pulp thrill ride when Cliff finds himself embroiled in a dark mystery in the seemingly picturesque heart of Hollywood\u2019s golden age! He may be neck-deep in mystery and mayhem, but it wouldn\u2019t be a Cliff Secord caper if his sweetheart, the stunning Betty, weren\u2019t steamed at him!<\/p>\n

Also flying onto shelves in February is the hardcover collection of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee\u2019s THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM! Deadly creatures from lost lands find their way to California\u2019s shores and create some awfully hot water for Cliff and friends in this rollicking four-issue series, collected in a beautiful hardcover volume.<\/p>\n

For fans of high-altitude adventure and on-the-ground intrigue, there\u2019s simply no substitute for The Rocketeer!<\/p>\n

THE ROCKETEER: HOLLYWOOD HORROR #1 (FC, 32 pages, $3.99) in stores 2\/27\/13. Diamond order code: DEC12 0420.<\/p>\n

THE ROCKETEER: CARGO OF DOOM HC (FC, 104 pages, $21.99) in stores 2\/20\/13. Diamond order code: DEC12 0424.<\/p>\n

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books. IDW can also be found at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/idwpublishing <\/a>and http:\/\/tumblr.idwpublishing.com\/<\/a> and on Twitter at @idwpublishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing their relationship with Dave Stevens\u2019 high-flying hero, IDW Publishing is pleased to announce a brand-new Rocketeer miniseries for 2013! Beginning in February, fans of Cliff Secord\u2019s aeronautic acrobatics will be treated to THE ROCKETEER: HOLLYWOOD HORROR! Written by Eisner … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2380,1071,164,659,2382,14,716,1172,2381],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-copy","tag-cliff-secord","tag-dave-stevens","tag-idw","tag-idw-publishing","tag-j-bone","tag-james","tag-roger-langridge","tag-the-rocketeer","tag-walter-simonson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7490,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}