DC Comics has reimaged The Jetsons for today's world in this graphci novels which collects the first six issues of the comic that is part of a group of comics modernaizing a number of the Hanna-Barbara cartoons. George, like a lot of dads, is a bit behind the times. His wife Jane is a NASA scientist who is one of the time minds on the planed. His daughter Judy is still the social butterfly, and his son Elroy, who is older than he was in the cartoon, is ocused on his homework and robotics.The boo...

DC's update of Hanna-Barbera's classic cartoon characters, The Jetsons, is an enjoyable read. George is an indispensable employee of Spacely Space Rockets and Jane is a scientist for N.A.S.A who team up together to stop a world-wide extension event being brought on by an oncoming meteor. All the characters from the classic TV cartoon including family members Elroy, Judy, robot maid Rosie, and their dog Astro. Writer Jimmy Palmiotti does a great job in giving us the background on what happened to...

I loved the original show, so I was excited to read this. This is the third Hanna-Barbera Beyond comic series I've read - I loved the Flintstones but greatly disliked Snagglepuss.As with Snagglepuss, this is the Hanna-Barbera in name and roughly in appearance only. I actually enjoyed the story and the new take on the characters, but it wasn't the Jetsons at all. I'm fine modernizing the characters, but they still needed to have some of the essential elements of the original work. The tone was al...

Meet George Jetson.He's an overworked and underappreciated, albeit brilliant, mechanical engineer for Cosmo Spacely's corporation.His Boy Elroy. Who has a thing for Lake Cogswell, Spacely's business competitor's daughter.Ahhhh, the shenanigans those two get into... Daughter Judy.A film student who isn't nearly as ditzy in this incarnation as she was in the show.Jane his wife.She the brains of the operation. Quite literally. In fact, she's been tasked with a top-secret mission to try to help come...

I hope there are more of these. Very different tone than to the Jetsons I remember but, i love the way the elements and details of the original series are blended into a unique story-line.

When a planet-killer meteor is spotted speeding toward Earth, Jane Jetson and other NASA scientists have just days to figure out how to stop it...So this is Jimmy Palmiotti's dark reimagining of the Jetsons. It was gripping and I enjoyed reading it but I'm not exactly sure that I liked it. While I have no great affection for the Jetsons, this may have strayed a little too far from the source material for me.Unlike The Flintstones, there's very little humor in this. Earth is underwater due to the...

Who knew Jimmy Palmiotti had it in him to write a poignant family drama about the approaching end of the world. The Jetsons, especially Judy, are all much smarter and well-rounded than they were in the cartoon. Jane is a super scientist tasked with trying to stop a meteorite that will soon strike the Earth. The entire family pitches into help once they becoma aware of the approaching armageddon. Pier Britto's art reminds me of Barry Kitson. He even uses a similar bright color palette found in mu...

I was pleasantly surprised by this comic. At first I was excited when I heard they were making this comic, then I saw the art. The art, in my opinion, isn't very good. I wish they had another artist drawing this book. However, I really liked the story. They don't change the characters too much from the original show and they explain why they all live in the sky. This book isn't a comedy though, it's more of a melodrama. I like what they do with Rosie the Robot. Even if you have seen all the epis...

I liked this story, but I'm not sure I would recommend it to anyone.... So far I've been a fan of the hanna-barbera universe. The flintstones was great, all the one shots they have released have been done pretty well. So I was excited to see what the Jetsons had to offer. The story starts off like the show does, with an intro of the family. Each family member has a project of their own to work on and these projects seem to be the main set for the story. AND THATS IT! There's no tension between a...

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I loved the story, the artwork, all of it. It was surprisingly deep, parts had me balling my eyes out. I couldn't stop reading start to finish. I just don't know how true to the original Jetsons it all was. I also haven't watched an episode of the Jetsons in over 20 years. I would definitely read more if more volumes come out.

Writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Pier Britto bring new life into an old Hanna-Barbera property. Eschewing the silliness of the cartoon, this incarnation is a serious look at a possible future where Earth is covered with water and people live in flying cities. When a strange meteor appears headed towards the Earth to kill its remaining life, it's up to brilliant scientist Jane Jetson and ace mechanical genius George Jetson to figure out how to save the day. The entire Jetson family are fully rea...

So, Flintstones and now Jetsons... Jetsons was actually pretty good, it did have some social commentary, but was not bogged down like Flintstones was. The art was good again, and the character designs were pretty true to the original. The whole Mom becoming a robot was well done as well. Overall, I am liking this Hanna Barbera line from DC.

This comic has very little in common with the source material, other than the futuristic setting and the character names. There is more focus on family values, character relationships, the value of traditional items like books, even existential issues and the cycle of life. This is a mature story in a more realistic setting. Rosie has George's mother's consciousness, so that's completely new. The artwork is modern, though somewhat inconsistent. It was especially effective at confusing me about w...

What would the Jetsons look like if it was a little more serious, and the tech felt upgraded to a realistic level given the tech we have today? This graphic novel. The dynamic is still the same, but with a few changes...-George still works at Spacely Sprockets, but is the only technician that understands how to work with all kinds of different tech, instead of being the tech idiot he was on the show.- Jane, no longer that "lady of society" that she portrayed in the cartoon (her 50's housewife ch...

A trip down memory lane. I remember watching The Jetsons as a kid, and didn't realise till recently that it was set in the year 2021. This story is more dramatic than the cartoon show and set about 10 years after the show. A meteor is discovered on a course that will destroy the earth in a matter of days. It is up to George, Jane, Judy and Elroy to save the day and the planet. Just a bit of light hearted sci-fi. 

Like much of DC's too short-lived Hanna-Barbera line, a story which knows that you don't need to go grim'n'gritty to do a modern, meaningful take on old material. The flying homes still look fabulous, the people are still bright, clean and mostly cheerful. It's just that the reason the homes all fly is that the waters rose to cover the land, so the sky is all that's left for them. The book opens with the short that backed up the Flintstones/Booster Gold crossover, in which the Jetsons' grandma t...

I just don't get it...why is this so well received? It's a mess!Let's start with the overall tone of the comic. For the most part, it feels very reminiscent of classic FANTASTIC FOUR comics without everything that made FF good in the first place. It's the story of the nuclear family as imagined in the 1950's set in a colorful future-world where there is no war, no weapons, you can transfer your body to a robot instead of dying...but for real guys, it's totally a "chilling distopian future."Sure,...

It's a good sci-fi comic but has nothing to do with the Jetsons at all. Just like the Snagglepuss and Flintstones reimaginings. I don't really know who this is for. I'd say this is The Jetsons for adults, but since they changed so much about the core dynamics and logic and appearance of the show it's not really a commentary or expansion of the original. ( I recently rewatched the Harvey Birdman episode related to the Jetsons and that explored way more ideas and fallacies presented in the origina...

So I recognize Jane Jetson has to have an upgrade because she's not really a character (consistent with certain mores of the times).But George Jetson is not a brilliant workaholic. He's kind of a normal dude. He works a blue-collar button-pushing job.I guess the whole cosmic thing generally . . . . It kind of walks away from the heart of the Jetsons, which is about George and his attempts to get off crazy things (alternating with wonder-joys of super-brilliant middle-class life enhancers). And a...