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Kareem Ali 4

Rocket Girl #3

 

  • The good

    The mystery deepens as details are revealed about Dayoung being sent to the past. Artwork is stellar, as usual.

  • The bad

    Short issue that ends abruptly when things are heating up

  • The ugly

    • Rocket Girl #3 opens up with Dayoung being interrogated by an NYPD detective about her recent activity, and he tells her that everyone is currently looking for her but they don’t know the NYPD has her. He can’t get a rise out of her as she just repeats her New York Teen Police badge number until he mentions that he gave her jetpack to Quintum Mechanics. She becomes irate knowing what it could mean to the timestream, and she tells him that he has no idea what he’s done. He assumed the jetpack belonged to Quintum Mechanics considering it was written all over it but before he can interrogate her further she pretends to escape out the window while he’s distracted by another cop. Instead she uses their confusion to make a break for it, and if there’s one thing she’s learned out of this experience is that no one trusts cops in 1986. However she starts to feel that way in general seeing as how no one understands the importance of her mission, and NYC starts to seem very big with everyone in their own world. She wouldn’t be the first nor the last NYC transplant to feel this way so her mind wanders back to her time period, and specifically when the commissioner and her partner distracted Quintum Mechanics forces so she could infiltrate it. But can her informant even be trusted, and if not, what is the ultimate plan in sending her back in time?

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    Rocket Girl has been one of those series that you wonder how you missed because it’s so good that you binge read in one sitting, unable to stop at a specific point because you always want more. So I was looking forward to this issue more than Dayoung wanted to get out of that police department at the start of this issue, and I was so engrossed when reading it that I ended up overcooking part of my breakfast. So part of me feels that Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder owe me breakfast as a result. The action sequences so far in this series have been stellar due to the artwork, and Dayoung’s escape from the police department is no different as the panels exude such energy, and almost effortlessly. And iIt’s an intriguing story when you enjoy speculating on plausible scenarios that hint at a conspiracy tied to Dayoung being sent back in time but isn’t as black and white as she believes it to be. And this issue seems to confirm that in a way. Switching between time periods works extremely well, and just when I was getting so deep into the series of events the issue ends, and I felt like I was left hanging. Yes, this would be possible with an engrossing story such as this but this issue is actually a short one, and I had to go back to make sure I was correct about that. So even though this was an action-packed issue that did more to unravel the conspiracy behind Dayoung being sent back, its relative brevity means we have to wait another issue for clearer answers. So it’s a good thing that at this point I don’t have to wait but one additional minute.

     

    SUMMARY

    Rocket Girl #3 is another excellent issue as the details of Dayoung being sent back in the past are revealed shedding some light on others motives but its brevity took away from its overall impact. I enjoy when a well-crafted story is built up because it can be more rewarding as events unfold but when it’s unnecessarily delayed it can take away from the excitement. Rocket Girl is still very exciting so I hope next issue continues to shine light on everything that is going on.

     

    Release Date: 12/31/13

    Writer: Brandon Montclare

    Artist: Amy Reeder

     

  • Rating ( 8 )
  • Total score 8.0

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