Roland, a certain that it’s Monday. He still got a lot of things to check off his list. And so perhaps he’s got a list and he’s checking it twice. However, there are issues going on. And he didn’t come up for air all day. So it’s actually Tuesday. Which is to say that it’s the 24th. It’s Christmas Eve. And they don’t even have a tree yet.L. They’d better get moving in The Rocketfellers #2. Writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Francis Manapul continue their tail if a group of time travelers is trying to connect with each other and the world around them and a special holiday issue.

It’s not that difficult to choose a tree. It’s kind of a challenge picking out the right one, though. There’s a guy with a chainsaw willing to help them out. And it only cost a little bit. However, the kid is a bit concerned. Where and when they come from it’s illegal to cut down a tree. So naturally, the kids going to panic. and the gentleman in charge of the tree farm is probably going to be more than a little bit confused about the whole situation. Particularly as the kid tackles him.

Tamaki continues to have fun with a fish out of water or sort of a situation. There is clearly familiar enough with the overall sense of contemporary culture to be able to navigate through the world and question. However, there are some major issues with being able to understand where they’ve come from both as individuals and as a culture. and so it’s kind of fun to get an echo of that as seen through the eyes of what on some level might be a more idealized perspective of where we would have to be in order to be surviving well into the future. If that’s where they’re coming from, family, going to need to be a lot more conscientious about a quite a few things. And our world is going to see a very strange to them. So it’s kind of fun to get into that. Even still even in the second issue.

Manapul has some fun with the idea as well. And that, though there are fantastic elements to what’s going on, it is a very earthbound family drama that just happens to feature a very nontraditional family. There are bits of comedy that seem to be working quite well. I should be there a bit of everything that seem to be working quite well.

And it can be really impressive to see it come together. The sci-fi level fish out of water sort of a comedy drama does have its appeal. However, this sort of thing has been done quite a bit before on quite a few different levels in quite a few different formats. So The Rocketfellers still trying to find. Something distinctive, that could work for a substantially new feeling as things move forward. As it is, but she really feels kind of like a copy of a copy although the characters are charming enough and enjoyable enough to keep the reader interested.

Grade: B