There's been talk of sequels or reboots of The Rocketeer for years now, but nothing has seemed to really come of them. Maybe it's for the best - the original film is a classic and would be pretty hard to improve upon, in my opinion. I'd prefer to see that version get a polish though - a nice high quality transfer with maybe some tweaks to the few flying sequences that don't quite hold up to today's visual effects standards.
I agree with you concerning THE ROCKETEER. Some Disney classics do not need remakes at all. Of course, I've said the same thing about the Jodi Benson version of THE LITTLE MERMAID. And, yet, WD Studios has stooped to remaking it, anyway. :-(
ReplyDeleteI'm mystified by the apparent villainess on this morning's cover. Is she supposed to be Andromeda from the Marvel super-group called Pantheon? Or an energy being (a la X'hal of Vega) from the constellation of the same name?
Like the fact that you used JSA era Hawkman, not the later incarnation.
ReplyDeleteDon't know her so i have no idea what kind of danger she represents. Hope that's the Haunted tank being blasted. Smooth cover. Nice visual.
ReplyDeleteSequels or reboots you say? I guess we're just ignoring the animated Disney Junior/Disney+ series...
ReplyDeleteReviews were pretty poor and it only got one season, but every last one of the negative reviews I've seen revolves around the demographic choice. It's geared toward a very (very) young audience, which is clearly not what most of the fans were looking for. Reviewers who actually looked at it as a kid's show had great things to say, so I'm going to have to check it out with my own little superheroes!
It's been over 30 years since the movie, so a reboot would be more appropriate than a sequel. But unless there's some plan to do more with the character, I don't see much reason for one right now. One possibility would be to integrate the character into the MCU, and I doubt that I'd be the only person with mixed feelings about that.
ReplyDelete@emsley: It's the JSA Hawkman, but in his 60s costume. I'm not sure what that would represent, except that maybe the Rocketeer is also in "coming out of retirement" mode.
I have the JSA mini-series that is from. Now I want to re-read it again. Golden age heroes are my favorites.
ReplyDelete@Emsley Wyatt: But, he's wearing the luchador mask. So, this has to be a post-WWII adventure. Anywhere between 1947 and 1963, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteShe's from a JSA limited series (of either 10 or 12 issues, I forget which), This was set sometime between the end of WW2 & the team's disbandment in [1951? 1952?], and was published around 1990-1991 IIRC. It received a favourable enough reception that the JSA were then given an "ongoing" series of their own, set in what was then the present day, that DC's management killed off after only 10 issues -- a bit before several JSAers were killed or otherwise removed from action during 'Zero Hour' --on the basis that "comics readers don't want to read about old< people".
ReplyDeleteThe villain on this cover, and the rest of the villains in that story were some kind of energy-beings from outer space... "Living Constellations"?
"Living Constellations?"
ReplyDeleteYeah, that does sound vaguely familiar. Weren't they the same energy race that produced the temporary alter-ego of hard-boiled superheroine Jonni Thunder?
The Picture of Andromeda fighting Hawkman came from the July 1991 cover for the Justice Society of America Mini-series #4 by Tom Lyle.
ReplyDelete@Anon829; close! They were the same race as Aquarius. The renegade star-being who killed Silver Age Black Canary's father, Larry Lance.
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