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Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 2 by Mark Millar
3.0

Well after years and years of waiting we finally have the followup to Jupiter's Legacy. If you haven't seen my review of that, to sum it up, shit was insane! Like people just getting brutally murdered, assholes being true dicks, and some great shots of awesome fights. So does 2 build upon that? In some ways yes, in others no.

Jupiter's Legacy picks up where the last left off. We get right into the heroes still being dicks but now the villains working together to fight back. Lead by the one guy without any powers and uses his father's tech he begins to hunt down the supes with the team and his wife and son.

Good: The artwork still pretty great. Some of these fights look amazing. Especially one shot of someone going through ground levels of buildings and underground. Amazing shot. Also liked the father son relationship here and the meaning behind it. Was also nice to see the heroes (well villains but heroes in our eyes) get their shit together instead of feeling like they'll never win a single fight.

Bad: It feels rushed at times. The reunion feels cut short with a certain someone and their father. The end result feels like they just threw everyone together at one place and a death really felt like "nothing" when it happened. Also what the hell was up with building up some big fight to let it down like that?

Overall Jupiter's Legacy volume 2 is still highly entertaining with insane art moments but as a total package it falls short of the first title. I still say it's good and probably closer to a 3.5 than a 3 but I'ma settle on a 3 in the end!