A strong first issue, though it does lack in some areas. Read Full Review

If there's anything to complain about in The Family Trade, it's the antagonist's Trumpian demeanor. He's an easy bad guy to hate, of course. But I, for one, am so tired of the real deal that it felt a little deflating to have to look at him here. But that's just one woman's opinion. And it almost seems possible we'll learn that the future is feline by the end of the series, so I'll keep tuning in for that. Read Full Review

Any debut issue with an interesting setting and a witty, self-aware, badass female lead character is going to reel me in. The Trumpian main character will justifiably push some away, but Jordan and Ryan have built the foundation for a solid, solid series in The Family Trade. Read Full Review

Overall, The Family Trade is a solid start with a foundation to build on: a likable protagonist, an interesting world, and an inner conflict to grow. What it needs next is character depth, both on the parts of Jessa and the family around her, and we might have an enchanting new book on our hands. Worth sticking around for issue #2 to find out. Read Full Review

There's some rather large narrative gaps for a debut issue that shouldn't have been mentioned in the solicit if they weren't going to be at least alluded to in the actual book. That aside, high praise is due to this team for writing a heroine worthy of admiration by all ages, and giving her glorious art to match. Read Full Review

Jordan, Ryan, and Beem's The Family Trade #1 offers a solid first issue. It won't blow reader's minds, but it's a well-designed, good-looking book with an interesting premise and some promising story aspects. It's enough to warrant coming back for another issue. The story needs to work harder in successive issues, though, to invest readers in Jessa and The Float. Read Full Review

It's a high concept story that takes plenty of risks in an original approach both in terms of story and art, and although it's early stages, there's enough potential for things to only get better from here. Read Full Review

The art is also a pretty big attraction to this series. Beem is another in a series of artists that paint everything which adds enough uniqueness to the comic that you don’t always see on the shelves. Hopefully Beem will be given enough time between issues to complete them since their style is not always great for a monthly schedule. Time will tell. Read Full Review

THE FAMILY TRADE #1 promises a steampunk adventure, but doesn't connect us with its characters or setting just yet. Read Full Review

There's plenty of potential for Jordan and Ryan's high concept, but right now they seem to be resisting the endearing hooks, diving instead into the murky waters of spectacle rather than substance. There's probably a very engaging character underneath all the history of the Float, and hopefully this creative team can tap into what makes Jessa tick before readers decide to trade up elsewhere. Read Full Review

The Family Trade #1 offers a lot of potential in its political commentary and interesting world, however the lack of exposition towards the Jessa and the out of place art ultimately sink this issue from true greatness. Read Full Review

I wish I liked The Family Trade #1 a lot more. It's hard to read a book with as much originality on display as this issue does and still have so many problems evident. At the end of the day, I wish the creative team had given me more to latch onto in terms of meat and potatoes character and structural work so that I could look forward to the next issue. It's tricky for any creators, even very good ones, to keep their excitement for their ideas from overwhelming the rather boring job of story construction. In the case of The Family Trade #1, written by Justin Jordan and Nikki Ryan with art by Morgan Beem, it definitely feels as if the team has committed this creative error. Read Full Review

After this first issue I felt like that there are too many questions and that nothing was explained. It has some good ideas but the whole thing with family and main character who is at day time ordinary girl and at the night some kind of assassin felt a little bit cheap to me.