The Rocketfellers can’t wait to get home to the 25th century…except they can’t. They’re chased by bounty hunters, hidden in 2025, and befuddledly fitting into this might-as-well-be-ancient society. So this family does what it does best: Dad, Rae, and Rex go on a personal adventure, while Mom craves a return to the stars. And as for eldest son Richie? His mystery project could be their undoing.
Issue 4 of The Rocketfellers was the perfect combination of family, mystery, and action. We still got a lot of focus on the family themselves adjusting to living out of their time, while also struggling with the typical issues a family deals with. Meanwhile, the overall story moved forward a ton. While, it felt like we were all over the place (geographically and chronologically), the story still moved incredibly smooth. I was sucked in from the first to the last page. Read Full Review
Raina demonstrates the company's ruthlessness when she travels through time to prevent the Time Zone Protection Program from building a case against Cronex. Raina seems heartless and cruel. Yet a repetitive injury suggests an intriguing link between Raina and Roland in The Rocketfellers #4. Read Full Review
Manapul delivers beautiful art throughout the issue. I like the visual details a lot and how the imagery changes with the tone of the story. Read Full Review
Not a lot of books could find this balance of good-natured family playfulness with the boding sense of danger, but The Rocketfellers is standing out for bringing something refreshingly different to the comic book landscape. Read Full Review
THE ROCKETFELLERS #4 delivers yet another day in the life issue to show how the refugee family from the future is adapting to 21st-century life. Peter J. Tomasi's script is filled with heartwarming moments of sweetness, and the art is some of the best around. That said, the story is going nowhere, so readers will be sorely tempted to tune out. Read Full Review
Plot
The whole family is nostalgic for their time:
-Rachel longs to fly spaceships again, remembering how she failed to complete several missions after miraculously becoming pregnant with Richie and Rae. Roland encourages her with a very sporty date night.
-Richie wants to show off his inventions and is constantly punished. Only his sister knows this. She feels like he'll only miss the clouds moving in the sky from our time, and that we'll soon stop seeing them...she knows something about the future.
-Rodney continues his jogging routine, and all the elderly women on the block join him to rejoice at his physique. Rodney isn't impressed by any of them. He's still in mourning, but something is awakening i more
Fun issue.
Every issue since #1 felt like filler, and this one is no different. The story is all over the place, and I don't even understand what's happening in some of the scenes. The art is not very good either, so why am I still reading this?
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