Jupiter's Legacy, by Mark Millar, 120 pages
This is one of those comics where I heard the plot and thought, "That sounds interesting"; then the copy arrived and I saw the cover and thought, "This does not look promising"; then I read it and thought, "Meh. It was... alright." Here's the general idea: a group of people discover a mysterious island and then become the world's first superheroes, with superpowers and all. Then they have children who also have superpowers but are basically entitled and resentful of their parents. Infighting happens, the families kind of break apart, and then there's a dramatic conclusion that paves the way for the second book that I will not be reading. It wasn't bad- just not for me. I was hoping more for an Astro City sort of non-canon superhero comic.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Jupiter's Legacy
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