Jupiter's Legacy #1

[lordultimus]

“When I started Jupiter’s Legacy in 2012 I had a very simple plan. I just wanted to write the biggest superhero story of all time." -- Mark Millar

Comments

[blueprintstyles]

I enjoyed this series, but I hope the Netflix adaptaion follows the examples of The Boys and Preacher, and filter out the worst of comic.

[akodo_rokku]

God, the Boys show really is just so much better than the comic you can barely tell it's based on it, isn't it?

[themajesticmoose]

They got rid of all of Ennis's garbage and instead took the core idea of "What if some superheroes were corrupt assholes and there was a team dedicated to shutting them down when they become a threat to innocent people" and used it to tell a story that's actually not racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, socially conservative garbage

[blueprintstyles]

Yeah, Garth's hatred for the subjects he writes about really hurts the quality of his comics. It's even worse now, that James bond riff and Hughie sound like the most annoying cis white man in the Youtube comments section.

[themajesticmoose]

Right?

When I read the original Boys comics I thought Hughie was a bit dull but was inoffensive and the least awful of a bad lot. If you put a gun to my head and told me I had to spend time with one character from the original run of the Boys, Hughie would have been the one I chose

Now though I think he's repulsive trash and I'd tell you to pull the trigger because the thought of spending time with him that didn't involve me pushing him off the roof of a tall building is as disagreeable as the thought of spending time with any of the other characters in Garth Ennis pathetic white cishet loser parade

[deh_tommy]

Wait, what was wrong with Hughie? He seemed decent enough (really everyone bar Billy would have been way more interesting to follow).

[themajesticmoose]

He was fine enough in the original comics for the most part. In the new miniseries Ennis did he decided to turn him into his repulsive mouth piece for all the ways he thinks the left and "SJW's" suck.

[themajesticmoose]

I can't say these scans grabbed me but it seemed to lack any of Millar's usual "How many people can I offend to lord all the edge today?" bullshit. Do I even want to know what "The worst" is in this series?

[blueprintstyles]

nothing too bad that I can remember. One superhero gets a midlife crisis and leaves his family for a while to date a teenager. He comes back after a fashion feeling regret and guilt but I wanted more of a follow-up with the wife and kids.