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A review by bluehairedlibrarian
Nuclear Family by Mike Marts, Stephanie Phillips
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
This book has such an interesting concept and a killer cover, but what's inside is too rushed and/or not fully formed enough to really make it past "meh." A family in 1958 hide in their basement when bombs start going off in their suburban neighborhood. Once the bombs stop, they go upstairs to find the world destroyed and an army coming to arrest them as Soviet spies. They discover that it is now 1968 and the entire country has been decimated by atomic war. Nothing much else comes from that until the family is right back home again.
The characters are flat, the story has a ton of potential, but squanders it by trying to make everything come full circle in six issues. Had this been given a longer run, this could have been something really interesting, but even when the inclusion of a sudden zombie appearance, there's not enough space or time to really get into any of the interesting elements of this story. It instead remains flat and surface level.
The characters are flat, the story has a ton of potential, but squanders it by trying to make everything come full circle in six issues. Had this been given a longer run, this could have been something really interesting, but even when the inclusion of a sudden zombie appearance, there's not enough space or time to really get into any of the interesting elements of this story. It instead remains flat and surface level.