Jupiter’s Circle #3 Review

Writer: Mark Millar / Artist: Wilfredo Torres / Image Comics “Superheroes were the summit of American aspiration and so our children grew up to remind mankind of everything we could ever hope to be.” **Spoilers** After peforming his heroic homie duties in issue #2, Fitz is officially called up from the minors and throws this issue on his back. We start off in the boonies of some small Midwest town. The Flare is there putting the finishing touches on some puppet clown creation that Mark Millar has decided will be the next victim of the guaranteed-to-get-bodied monster club.

He finishes up and sparks up a conversation with a beautiful young waitress named April Kelly. She offers him some post battle coffee and reveals to him that she is bored out of her mind living in a town that just had the most exciting moment in its history. That’s right. A giant It puppet ripping apart the town is the greatest thing that has ever happened to everyone she’s ever known. Anywho, Fitz is all, “Girl you young, go get yours!” She starts swooning and reveals her big secret of always wanting to be a superhero like The Union. Fitz is surprised and she gets embarrassed until he puts on the charm. Thennnn shorty straight up hits the family man with a line that immediately raises a red flag. “My parents are out of town at a funeral in Minnesota…can I show you something crazy?” I genuinely believed she was bout to walk out and then back in with the Varsity Blues whipped cream seductress outfit. At …