Jupiter's Circle #5

[history79]

"But what I thought with "Jupiter's Circle" was telling that story that looked slightly old-fashioned, superficially, but once we go behind it and see the interpersonal relationships, it starts to feel deeper, or more like a European movie from that period. It's like a '60s French film about what's going on in these heroes' private lives. Not in a crass way, but I love the idea of looking at what happens between alien invasions with everyone's wives and children. It's all about how they feel about each other. It ended up feeling very different than any superhero comic I've ever read, and I think that's what will be fascinating for the readers."

- Mark Millar

Comments

[reveen]

How many people do you think proposed on the spot and tried to take the credit for the moon message?

[captainbellman]

Exactly where my mind went. At least Jimmy Olsen went with "I Love Lucy", narrowed it down.

Also: Millar very barely changed a borrowed idea from Grant Morrison! Unprecedented!

[steverequin]

So... It's like, Vicky Vale ditching Batman for Alfred!?

[informationgeek]

The more I read of this series, Jupiter's Legacy, and Starlight the more I want Millar to stick to that. Such good and rather enjoyable comics. More of this and less of the assholes and edginess please!

[shadowpsykie]

hard to believe this is the same writer...

[mrosa]

"Not in a crass way, but I love the idea of looking at what happens between alien invasions with everyone's wives and children. It's all about how they feel about each other. It ended up feeling very different than any superhero comic I've ever read, and I think that's what will be fascinating for the readers."

Can we interpret this as further evidence that Millar doesn't have a good grasp of superhero literature? Because I can think of thousands of stories from the '80s and '90s that, between alien invasions, were rife with small, quiet moments about the heroes' families and relationships.

In fact Millar, who began millitarizing heroes in the Ultimate universe and Civil War, to the point they pratically abandoned the rich, melodramatic, soap-operish lives that had made them so interesting since the 1960s' advent of continuity, replaced by anemic, unmakes lives mostly spent in uniforms, sitting around SHIELD meeting rooms discussing the fate of the world for the nth time, or hanging around almost exclusively with other superheroes as if civilian relationships were an inferior caste, well, that Millar and Co. were pretty much responsible for getting rid of that type of story.

So please don't flatter yourself with big innovations; it took you 30 years working in comics to finally write the stories Roger Sterne, Walt Simonson, Ann Nocenti, John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Alan Moore, Mark Gruenwald, Peter David, etc. were writing when you had the unfortunate idea of trying your hand at comics? Quite the slow learner, but even so, congratulations for the achievement, insignificant as it may be in the great history of superhero literature.

[starwolf_oakley]

Millar must think "We shouldn't care about the personal lives or soap opera stuff of superheroes. All that matters is fighting evil."

Too bad Dan Didio and others think the same way.

I am not sure any normal humans exist in the X-Men books anymore.

[shadowpsykie]

what happened to the gay character>?