Jupiter’s Legacy Vol. 2: #1

Writer: Mark Millar / Artist: Frank Quitely / Image Comics [quote_simple]“SUPERHEROES WERE THE SUMMIT OF AMERICAN ASPIRATION AND SO OUR CHILDREN GREW UP TO REMIND MANKIND OF EVERYTHING WE COULD EVER HOPE TO BE.”[/quote_simple] *Spoilers* But the children of the superheroes DIDN’T WANT to be like their parents. They wanted to be RICH, they wanted to be FAMOUS, and they wanted to save the world in ways their parents never DARED. So they staged a COUP and murdered the OLD GUARD, taking over AMERICA and forcing their ideas on a country that NEVER WANTED them. But one hero ESCAPED and together with her boyfriend and EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SON she set out to find all the old SUPER-CRIMINALS to ask them to come back and SAVE US from the SUPERHEROES… We jump into the And-1 Mixtape Volume 2 at Sante Fe, California in 1991. George/Skyfox is posted up in the crib of some dime piece we can only assume is baby moms because he’s asking about seeing his son. He gets blessed with that biological access and the young lad keeps it a buck with George and asks, “Are you my dad?” Yo, Mark Millar is a boss. Such a simple question, but it explains a ton pertaining to Hutch’s future mindset and what life experiences molded him growing up. Clearly he ain’t ever seen his pops or only met once or twice, which explains why he’s such a real deal dad to his son, Jason. [quote_simple]Classic hood hero story, ya know.[/quote_simple]

While George and Hutch are catching up and participating in superhero arts and c…