Review by Frank Plowright

The Joneses is affiliated with The Resistance, where the idea of a world suddenly coping with a massive amount of people with super powers was introduced. Michael Moreci opens in suburbia and an ongoing social schism between those fearing the super powered in principle and those who’re more open-minded, but aware the government are hunting down what are referred to as Reborns. This includes the Jones family, which isn’t a surprise as they’re among those who have super powers.

In fact they’re a four person super team, all with different abilities. Daughter Agatha relishes her super speed and uses it to combat crime, while her brother Tommy reluctantly teleports, which is particularly useful for mother Sonya who has to discharge massive build-ups of energy in remote places. Father Marcus has an armoured form. Moreci develops them well, highlighting their different attitudes to powers, and how they’ve changed the dynamics of the family and brought home to the parents at least that their relationship was previously falling apart.

Scenes of the family in action are creatively conceived, and thrilling as drawn by Alessandro Vitti, presumably a catharsis as they’re contrasted by continual discussion, either among the family or in the wider community. Vitti’s people are attractively drawn, but there’s no variety to their features, so they’re distinguished by hair colour more than anything else.

For Moreci The Joneses is more about having a debate than offering a superhero story, because there are plenty of those available, and he takes the story down some interesting and surprising paths as he widens the circle. Provided you’re up for the argument this is something different and absorbing.