Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom #3 Review

Things get crazy in Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom #3. Not dinosaurs wearing jetpacks crazy, but pretty insane nonetheless. Fear not, there is tons of dinosaur action in this issue. It's the same great quality you have come to expect from Mark Waid and Chris Samnee. Tons of fun with just the right mixture of screwball insanity. And dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs.


Mark Waid moves the story fast here. Villains die as fast as they appear, dinosaurs rampage everywhere and lots of stuff catches on fire. It's frantic and at times hard to follow. It's not exactly clear why the main villain gives the Rocketeer a means to defeat the horde of dinosaurs, and maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe it's best not to think about it and just enjoy the fact that by the end of this issue the Rocketeer is carrying some sort of alien ray gun and nuking dinosaurs with it. Does it really matter how we go to that point? Probably not.


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