Jupiter's Legacy Library Edition, Volume 2

Jupiter's Legacy #1-2

by Mark Millar (Writer), Frank Quitely (Illustrator)

Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s comic-book masterpiece, a vast epic covering three generations of superheroes from the early 20th Century to the far future.

During the depths of the Great Depression, a mysterious island sent out a call to seven good-hearted people. They returned with fantastic powers and helped the United States through World War 2, The Cold War, and countless crises. They were beloved by all mankind, but their children were a different breed entirely.

Rich, spoiled and growing up in the Hollywood hills without their parents’ sense of duty, they grew tired of mankind’s ways and decided to murder their parents, take over the world and impose their ideas on a human race they regard as weak and stupid. Brandon Sampson, the son of the two most powerful superheroes who ever lived is their leader, a callow narcissist who always felt in his father’s shadow. But his sister Chloe refused to buckle and now leads the resistance movement against the superheroes. She and her super-villain boyfriend are recruiting all the old crooks they drove into hiding with a plan to rescue the world from the people born to save it.

For mature audiences.

280 pages, Hardcover

First published November 11, 2025

About the author

Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.

His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.

Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

(A-) 81% | Very Good
Notes: Review pending re-read. Individual reviews for included volumes can be found here:
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 3
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 4

[Danilo Otašević · Rating 2 out of 5]

Prevario sam se kada sam mislio da će drugi tom biti bolji. Nikada nisam bio veliki fan Milara, ali prvi tom je bio pravo osveženje u često monotonom superherojskom žanru. S druge strane, drugi tom se ponovo vratio na taj put monotonije, savremene monotonije. Ne vidim kako nekoga može da bude briga za sve aktere ovog trejda jer se priča odvija u 10 brojeva. Emocije koje se vezuje za glavne junake su poznate i atipične ovom žanru stripa, no to nije dovoljan razlog da junaci ne budu jednodimenzionalni. Svetla tačka je crtež Kvaljtlija, no čak ni on nije na nivou. Treba uzeti u obzir i da nije bila pametna odluka čitati bilo šta odmah nakon Blasta.

[Marko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nakon sjajnog prvog dela u drugom delu malo pad. Ali tek kad se pogleda kako je ovo izdavano i kako je pakovano u knjige može se doći do odgovora. Jer serijal je krenuo sa ovim drugim delom, koji se godinama razvlačio, onda je na pola drugog dela izdat prvi deo u kratkom vremenskom roku i onda se drugi deo drugog dela opet razvlačio. Prva i druga knjiga su poređana hronološki da prate radnju dešavanja a ne izdavanja.

I to se tačno vidim u ovom drugom delu da je ideja bila tu i da je bila sjajna ali da se to godinama mrcvarilo i nije izvedeno kako treba.

A ideja je da imamo generacijski jaz u roditeljima i deci usperheroja i da je matorce vreme pregazilo i da je u njihovo vreme bilo važno biti ispravan, moralan, na mestu i u službi družave, dok su mlađe generacije tu zbog socijalnih mreža, slave, sponzora i "ne žele slušati starije" već uzeti sve u svoje ruke. Sjajna ideja, ali u odnosu na prvi deo mnogo je veći akcenat na superherojštinu i borbe nego na ovaj sapunski deo, što je možda šteta je ovde je priča još podložnija takvim igrama.

Za ralziku koliko me je u prvom delu crtež oduševio i drugom delu sam bio suzdržan kao što sam uvek suzdržan kod crteža Quitely-a koji može da mi se svidi ili ne od konteksta priče, mada činjenica je da i njegov kvalitet crteža i detalja osciluje kroz njegov rad.

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the best part about this book is Frank Quitely's art with Peter Doherty's colours. This book simply looks incredible. As for the story (and some other reviewers have touched on this), Mark Millar blatantly recycles previously used plot ideas (some of which were even his own). And you know what? I'm okay with that. How many times have plots and storylines been recycled in comics? Honestly: recycling plots & storylines is actually part of the comics tradition. So one thing I would suggest/recommend to anyone reading this book would be to forget all about other comics and just enjoy Jupiter's Legacy on its own merits (which are, incidentally, a great superhero story with crisp, eye-popping art). Sure, Jupiter's Legacy is not perfect - what is? - but it's undeniably better than a lot of what the Big 2 are flooding the market with.