The Jetsons is a comic adaptation of the cartoon of the same name, written in 2017 by Jimmy Palmiotti with interior art by Pier Brito and published by DC Comics as part of their Hanna-Barbera Beyond initiative.
Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife and their dog Astro. They're a future family that lives in a world where a series of disasters had resulted in 99% of the planet being flooded, so what remains of humanity lives in colonies floating in the sky and the planet's orbit.
While there have been Jetson comics in the past, this adaptation is more adult than past comics and generally does not try to mimic Hanna-Barbera's art style. It ran for 6 issues.
The Jetsons comic provides examples of:
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original cartoon George Jetson was a "digital index operator", which basically meant he pushed a button on and off as many as five times for three hours, three days a week, done to demonstrate how easy going an automated future was envisioned to be at the time. Here he's an engineer/mechanic who is in demand as one of the few humans able to repair or understand the futuristic technology.
- After the End: With a mix of climate change, the Hanlon Meteor striking and seismic activity, the majority of the planet's land had since been flooded, forcing what remained of humanity to flee into Earth's orbit.
- Age Lift: In the original cartoon, Elroy was an adolescent boy, albeit a very smart one. Here he's a teenager.
- Canon Character All Along: The first issue featuring Grandma Jetson's decision to be reborn as a robot has her tell her son to call her "Rosie" at the end.
- Flooded Future World: The oceans rose and overtook 99.7% of the Earth, hence why the Jetsons live in a World in the Sky. Grandma Jetson claims to remember what the world was like before it ended, implying that the disaster happened within the last century.
- Long-Lived: Medical science of the setting has advanced dramatically, able to keep Grandma Jetson alive for at least 124 years. Even then it doesn't do miracles, as she still ages and essentially lives in a hover medical-bed. It's at this point that she chooses to undergo a procedure that uploads her mind into a robotic body, this being the origin of Rosie.
- That's No Moon: It's revealed that the Hanlon Meteor was actually an alien terraforming device that crash-landed on what that they presumed was an uninhabited planet. It laid dormant for 124 years before Elroy accidentally broke it free from its casing in an underwater explosion. Jacob's Meteor is revealed to be the alien ship sent there to see what it has been doing the whole time.
- Touched by Vorlons: When George is brought along with a mission to investigate the creatures spawning from the Hanlon meteor, the electric shock he suffers trying to jury-rig a way to repel one of the creatures leaves him with minor telepathic abilities. Not only is he suddenly able to understand Astro, but he unintentionally reads Jane's mind to discover that Jacob's Meteor is expected to end all life on Earth.
- World in the Sky: After Hanlon's meteor resulted in the world flooding humanity have since built magnetically suspended cities to live in, something that comes under threat with the arrive of Jacob's meteor, a meteor made of an unknown, magnetic material heading for the trench created from the since Hanlon Meteor crashed in. According to Jane's estimates, should they collide, the impact would result in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
