Monthly (Comic) Book Club for the Holidays - Jupiter's Legacy21338
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For the extended holiday season, we're taking our sweet time reading Jupiter's Legacy volumes 1 and 2. They can be found as separate TPBs or as a collected Library Edition (or the individual issues, of course).  Reading Schedule December 2 - 8: Jupiter's Legacy (2013) 1 and 2 December 9 - 15: Jupiter's Legacy 3 and 4 December 16 - 22: Jupiter's Legacy 5 December 23 - 29: Jupiter's Legacy vol 2 (2016) 1 December 30 - Jan 5: Jupiter's Legacy 2 and 3 January 6 - 12: Jupiter's Legacy 4 and 5 Discussion topic ideas: * Thoughts on the story or artwork * Details in the story, artwork, or presentation * References to outside events or other works of fiction * Making of/Behind the Scenes details * Editions you will be reading from * Items in your collection pertaining to this week’s selection |
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| I picked this one because I randomly remembered that Netflix made a show out of it. It wasn't amazing but I liked it and thought it was clearly more thoughtful than a lot of superhero/sci-fi shows. I'm hoping the original material similarly has some depth to it. If anyone reads these and enjoys them, there was a prequel series (two volumes, 12 issues) called Jupiter's Circle and a sequel series called Requiem (6 issues). |
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| @xkonk I think the TV show is also what makes the situation with the collected editions a tad confusing. Netflix purchased MillarWorld, which I’m guessing is a a long way of saying that Netflix has the production rights to much of Mark Millar’s works. Netflix then re-released the trades in story order so in their numbering, the prequels are vols 1 & 2 and the original run is vols 3 & 4 I’m currently waiting on my books to arrive. Mail does seem like it’s slowed down a bit now that we’re firmly in the holiday season. I’m entering this reading with a bit of caution as Millar has never been my favorite writer. I feel a lot of his works try too hard to be edgy like with Wanted, Kick-Ass, and Old Man Logan. I will admit that the latter did hit me at just the right age and perhaps because it is Marvel and not and indie publication I feel it doesn’t go as far over the edge as some of his other works. Additionally, the backstory to Old Man Logan and Wanted, with the super villains teaming up to defeat the heroes feels copy-pasted from one to the other so he’s not winning points for originality with me. The adaptations of his work that I’ve seen, mainly Kick-Ass and Wanted, do blunt the edge significantly, mostly to their benefit, I think. I haven’t seen Jupiter’s Legacy on Netflix so I’m kind of coming into this blind. |
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| I agree; Kick-Ass stands out as one of the rare occasions where I preferred the movie to the book. Wanted (the movie) is so different that it's hard to compare but it certainly is less edgy. I don't remember anything too over-the-top in Netflix's version of Jupiter's Legacy so we'll see how this goes. Millar also wrote the 'Enemy of the State' arc in Wolverine, which I think was a good one, and the Civil War event series. He's obviously done a bunch of stuff, I should say, but those are two I've read and others might be familiar with. On the art front, we've seen Frank Quitely's work in the book club for New X-Men and Batman and Robin. According to wikipedia, Jupiter's Legacy was his first long-form work (whatever that means specifically; a whole series? a whole issue?) not with Grant Morrison. Millar and Quitely also worked together on The Authority, which is a book I would like to read at some point. Grant Morrison did as well but with art by Gene Ha. |
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| Issue 1 sets up the idea of the series. A group of people became the first superheroes in the mid-30s based on a dream and the wish to pull the United States out of the Depression. It seems as if they did it. Come around to current day (somewhere around 2012, I think), and things are rough again. Lots of unemployment, the economy is tanking, people are unhappy everywhere. There's a whole culture around superheroes now, and those first superheroes have had kids who have had to try to live up to their standard. Sheldon Sampson is the head of the group and is The Utopian. He still thinks superheroes exist to help people and the politicians will figure out the big stuff. His brother, Walter, has had enough of going in circles for decades and wants to help run things directly. Sheldon's kids, Chloe and Brandon, are struggling to live in his shadow. By the end of issue 2, Walter and Brandon are planning to take Sheldon out. |
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| I had to double-check that I picked up the right books when I read 3 and 4. The Netflix show is a bit of a slow burn; there are fights, but you get pretty much the whole backstory on the island in the '30s and the season ends with Walter bringing up the idea of overthrowing The Utopian. Issue 3 gives us the whole overthrowing and 4 is a time jump to the future after the supes have been in charge for a while. The action is in typical Millar fashion, which is to say that The Utopian gets lasered to death in the face. That aside, I have to say that it all feels very sudden and left-field. I get that Brandon feels shamed by his dad, but virtually every "good guy" is willing to turn on The Utopian and literally kill him? It was a tough ask. 4 was a bit more fun with Chloe's kid being a secret superhero. The world turning into a dystopian nightmare was less fun, but I thought it was overall more fun in comparison. | ||
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| I also read issue 5 to finish the first series. We have the few good guys deciding to come out of hiding and set up the next series. Going with my criticism of how the "good guys" acted in issue 3, they are continuing to not act very good. They immediately installed an authoritarian (at least) government that is spreading worldwide and are ruining more things than they're fixing. You wonder a bit why Australia lets the US send people to hunt superpowered people in their country, but I guess they could be too scared to say no. I did like the fight between Chloe and family versus Barnabas and the goons. | ||
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