Jupiter's Legacy #1

The story doesn't seem original, however I did enjoy the read. I probably won't pick up the series though, it seems too predictable for me. The artwork was great though.

Meh. If I want a comix about decaying superheroes against a background of general moral decline (a genre I don't really like to begin with), then I'd go for the grim rage of Frank Miller. At least in Miller's work, like Martha Washington or Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, you feel a sense of a man's general life philosophy. Sure, misanthropic, kinda misogynistic and myopic (the “moral decline” sometimes seems to be equated with the loss of power among old white dudes), but at least it's kind of a system of thought. There was some meditating/brooding which created these stories!

This, instead, felt like a superficial adaptation of that sort of “the world's on fire!”/”where have all the superheroes gone?” thing. It was kinda tone deaf to, er, anything after WWII and the “Golden Era” (= era of good ol' boys), since it had this Indiana Jones thing going on in the flashback scenes, and then had this reeeally cheesy sex, drugs and rock and roll thing in the modern stuff. Think The Matrix. Also, oh man, were the ladies objectified. I think only 50% had pants on. Sorry, but if you just introduced a bunch of lady characters, and ALL of them were either moms, sex objects, or drugged-out naifs, you lose my interest.