>The adventures of Rocketo Garrison take place in a mythical future 2,000 years after the world has been destroyed in a catastrophe. This compilation of the first six issues of The Journey to the Hidden Sea tells the story of Rocketo's idyllic childhood and his early training as an explorer and Mapper. After returning from the deadly Solarium War a broken man, Rocketo Garrison is swept away on a journey to the Hidden Sea, a fabled, dangerous land that may hold the key to undreamed of treasure as well as the truth about an ancient mystery.>PLUS: introduction by Alex Ross, pin-ups by some of today's leading comic book artists, maps, sketches and background information on the New World and more!Storytiming the first volume of Rocketo: Journey to the Hidden SeaFun little tidbit: The co-writer and artist of this, Frank Espinosa, was an artist for Warner Bros and Disney
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>>152580327This would be sick of the art was just a little sharper. It’s kinda blurry compared to the text which tells me it isn’t a compression issue. As it stands it’s kinda headache inducing which is frustrating because it looks like something I’d love.
And that was the first volume of Rocketo: Journey to the Hidden Sea by Frank Espinosa and Marie TaylorThanks for the bumps
I love the coloring.
>>152580327>Fun little tidbit: The co-writer and artist of this, Frank Espinosa, was an artist for Warner Bros and DisneyApparently he was the guy who redesigned the Looney Tunes in the 90's
Kind of reminds me of Brad Bird for some reason
>>152582857>>152582873>>152583007>>152583017Holy shit
>>152580327ill give it a bump o've never heard of this before.Odd page format isn't this mostly used for Newpaper comics?
Interesting.
>>152582458the Prince looks like an Astro Boy Villian which i guess fits in with the 50s/60s Pulp feel of everything elseodd amount of hellenic influence as well, with eyes on the main ship and the characters facing Harpies and Sirens
>>152583017damn
>>152585561Direct market actuallyCame out in floppies but it was always meant to be read in landscape
>>152586611Yeah, that makes sense, shame there were only twelve issues
Thanks for sharing this, OP!
>>152580392>text looks crystal clear>art looks like it was “scanned” by taking a picture with a 2004 Razr What a shame >>152582164Honestly it’s shocking. I’d be so pissed if I bought this. >>152585561I’ve seen a few use the format. Polar comes to mind. Not the same dimensions but Miller’s 300 and Holy Terror as well.
>>152586611Do the floppies have clearer art? I’d love to buy and read this but I can’t do it when the art is so fuzzy and out of focus.
>>152587198Not sureI think it might be better to read physical but that's just the small optimist in me speakingMy local library has the volumes so I might go ahead and read those for myself to see if physical is a better reading experience
>>152587198From a scan of the first issue
>>152587347the comparative page from the trade >>152580711
>>152587389Looks similar but the text isnt uncannily sharp so it’s less combative. Still just wish it was a cleaner scan.At any rate thank you for the comparison!
>>152587927>>152587347Actually on second look the floppy does look a notably darker when it comes to the inks. I wonder why they opted for a lighter tone in the trade.
This looks really good.
>>152587953might have been a inking mistake initeal and they changed it for the trade. They do talk about adding extra pages in the first story so they definitely made some other corrections for it
>>152588270He mistake would be lightening it for the trade IMO. Damn near illegible.
Thanks, OP. Good find.
>>152585080how so
>>152580327Good stuff OP, reminds me of what I used to read as a kid.
>>152589349nta but I kinda get what they mean in that it's a very Pulp or Raygun Gothic aesthetic, which is something Brad Bird also likes and puts into his works like The Incredibles or his upcoming film(pic being 90s concept art for) has a choicethem being both at WB in the 90s makes me wonder if there was some cross-pollination or at least shared interest
>>152586648He was still working on it since it seems to be his passion projectHe doesn't have an active blog or anything but an interview in 2020 still showed he was making progress of the second arc (out of four)https://www.lospaziobianco.it/en/the-many-faces-of-frank-espinosa-from-rocketo-to-italy/
>>152589968I'm not getting more hopes u,p considering this series ended almost two decades ago
>>152590277I mean BWS finished Monsters when he was 72 but yeah I get what you meanAt least there are some signs that Espinosa hasn't given up on Rocketo albeit only as recent as about 6 years ago
>>152590306What does he do as a day job?His Wikipedia article basically only goes to the end of this series
>>152590375According to Facebook?Creative director at Scuola Internazionale di Comics
>>152590428So an Italian comic school then Being an academic hasn't stopped certain creators from making comic Jim Zub comes to mind but being a writer is pretty different from being an artist
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>>152591294for me
>>152589968I wish more westerners finished their comics.
>>152592835>Implying manga's not guilty of shit as well
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>>152593014thanks
>>152592853It's not nearly as much of a problem.
>>152596006>I have no way to back my argument so I'll be a necrobumping piece of shit without actually contributing discussionAnons like you are a blight
>>152589929Yeah that pretty much sums up what I was thinkingI think that was just the trend at the time given that generation is actually nostalgic over that vibe
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