ShockRockets

Shockrockets is a Comic S created by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen. Initially published by Image Comics under the label Gorilla, the six episodes are collected in a single volume published at Dark Horse. The series was translated into France by Semic.

Artistic team

Scenario: Kurt Busiek
Drawing: Stuart Immonen
Inking: Wade von Grawbadger
Put colors: Jeremy Cox
Lettering: Richard Starkings and Jason Levine

Short summary

In 2087, whereas the war makes rage between the land forces of safety and the troops of the Korda General, Alejandro Cruz, an young man impassioned by mechanics, is found propelled with the orders of a plane based on an extraterrestrial technology.

Summary

ShockRockets are planes built starting from a technology concealed in Fermeki, the extraterrestrial ones which had tried to invade the Earth a few years ago. During a combat the opponent with the forces of the General Emilio Korda, a hero of the war against Fermeki which deserted to create its own empire, Kiel Buchheim, one of the pilots of ShockRocket is touched and is crushed on the ground. Alejandro Cruz, a civilian who is on the spot, precipitates to carry help to him, but in front of the insistence of Buchheim to take again its mission, it decides to take the device controls and draws some successfully. Unfortunately, during the combat, Buchheim succumbs has its wounds.

Because of technology of ShockRockets, Alejandro is from now on dependant has that which it controlled, that it wants it or not. The land forces of safety (Terr-Dryness) thus recruit it in order to involve it. Its integration is not done however without clashes, because of hostility of the second lieutenant Althea Wilde, who should have been that to take the continuation of Buchheim, and that of lieutenant Melina Zahos, the boyfriend of Buchheim, which holds Alejandro for person in charge of dead of this one. In addition, its results as a apprentice-pilot are particularly irregular, which leads Alejandro has to put forth the assumption that ShockRockets keep a psychic print of each person having controlled them.

One day that it is showing its assumption with Melina, the boat which is used as a basis has Terr-Dryness is attacked by surprised and is run. Still more surprising, Korda put the hand on part of ShockRockets which had disappeared during the war against Fermeki. As for the six ShockRockets of Ground-Dryness, half of them raw is lost, wedged in the holds, but Alejandro manages to extirpate them from there while communicating directly with them. Thanks to the information collected by Sand, an old driver of ShockRockets specialist in the missions of infiltration, a counter-attack is then organized against the general headquarter of Korda, during which Alejandro cuts down in Wilde aerial combat, which was in fact with the pay of Korda. However, its plane being hardly better in point, Alejandro continues the combat with feet, and ends up finding nose with nose with the general. Alejandro has the lower part, until intervenes Sable, which is sacrificed by killing Korda.

Publication

ShockRockets #1-6 , 2000, Gorilla/Image Comics, published in three magazines gathering each one two episodes by Semic in 2001
ShockRockets , 2004, Dark Horse, collection gathering ShockRockets #1-6 , ISBN 1-5930-7129-9

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