Icon #42
Title: “From Labor to Rest”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Feb. 1997
Publisher:
9 characters in this story:
| Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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black; The Shadow Cabinet...  [Icon's partner] |
|
58 | ||||||
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black; Heroes... |
|
148 | ||||||
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The Shadow Cabinet | |
73 | |||||
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black [mother of Rocket (Raquel Ervin)] |
|
10 | ||||||
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black [child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket] |
|
6 | ||||||
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black [Static's mother] |
|
33 | ||||||
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black [Rocket's absentee father] |
|
1 | ||||||
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black [Rocket's grandma] |
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2 | ||||||
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black [Rocket's little brother] |
|
1 |
Summary from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=227&:
Raquel has to tell here mother that grandma has died. Then they have to deal with the consequences. Virgil and his mother visit Raquel's family to offer their support and sympathy. Virgil ends up having to watch Raquel's son as his mom takes her to make funeral arrangements. At the funeral home expenses look bad but Augustus shows up to save the day and offer his help. When Raquel returns to here apartment, we see her dad for the first time. We learn that Raquel has a little brother. The family sits and discusses memories of Raquel's grandmother. The funeral turns out to be a pleasant experience as it can be.
