Múltkor volt szó a nosztalgikus steampunkról, most pedig a sokszínű Harlan Ellisontól olvastam pár mondatot, ami tökéletesen leírja ezt az alfajt. A forrás a The Rocketeer képregény gyűjteményes kiadásának (tpb) előszava.
Dave came in with the first twelve pages of the material. The originals, reworked. He brought them along, I presume, to refresh my memory. He need not have bothered. I have all the Pacific Comics magazines that introduced The Rocketer back in 1982. More, I remember them clearly. Memory is a large part of The Rocketeer. Memories of things that happened long before Dave was born, things that happened in 1938. I was four years old in 1938. Dave Stevens wouldn’t be born for seventeen years yet. But he remembers.