(SHOWcase) Rocketmen, the Webseries!

Part drama and discussion of “jobs programs,” part comedy and certainly a deranged adventure, Rocketmen is a web serial featuring a host of Seattle performers, with animated interludes by Animator/Director Webster Crowell. Rocketmen were intended to combat the threats of tomorrow. If those threats never arrive, what purpose will they serve? Who do they save now? Rocketmen want to know: are you in peril?

The Rocketmen are a fraction of a splinter in the body of the Federal Budget. The contemporary remains of a WPA jobs program, the Department of Municipal Rocketry employs men (who are maybe not employable anywhere else) to wear hydrogen-fueled rocket packs and spend their days on city rooftops, awaiting any peril that might befall the city. There is a lot of waiting. In the old days, there was the threat of Russians to battle and 50-foot robots to contend with. Now, they rescue cats, detain illegal skywriters, and start the occasional roof fire. Some of these Rocketmen haven’t flown since their training session. Mostly, they kill time waiting for the emergency phone to ring, which never happens. Until one day, when it rings.




Our series adventure begins when an emergency actually transpires; one newbie rocketman doesn’t follow protocol and ... things go badly. What follows are a series of adventures as the rocketmen attempt to stay one step ahead of the FAA while they fight to clear their name. A motley group rarely called upon to do much of anything, they must rise to the challenge and use all their resources to prevent their department from being maligned (and likely cut entirely). They rescue people from modern urban peril, uncover a vast underground government bureaucracy, face monsters from their past, and suffer prolonged hydrogen narcosis while standing alone against the surprise enemy they were actually created to defend us from. This time, when the city is threatened, will they be ready? Support this Project Here by 8/10/13.