Jupiter’s Legacy #5 Review

  “Superheroes were the summit of American aspiration and so our children grew up to remind mankind of everything we could ever hope to be.” Writer: Mark Millar / Artist: Frank Quitely / Image Comics The fifth and final issue of Jupiter’s Legacy’s initial run dropped in January this year. Took the homies Millar and Quietly a whole year to release it after issue #4 came out in January, 2014. This year-long wait became such a big talking point that Millar announced that starting in April, all Millarworld titles in a series will be completely drawn before releasing any of the initial issues, in order to ensure he sticks to his once a month schedule of releases.

With that said, Millar wastes no time in this issue. From the jump they saddle up and ride right into the Aussie manhunt. Sicilian Voldamort, Major Barnabas Wolfe rollin up into a nice little office building asking for a Miss Joan Wilson, who is ever so surprised that anyone would want anything to do with a simple claims supervisor. This doesn’t give me any reason to suspect her of mischief now does it? Major Wolfe is the man responsible for finding unlicensed superheroes in foreign territories. He was never big on fighting crime and damn sure didn’t have the looks for advertising contracts or magazines, but found his calling running the anti-terrorism squad. He goes over a few simple questions with Miss Wilson and she answers them all like a straight-up boss. That is, until, Wolfe drops the bomb that while they’ve …