{"id":243526,"date":"2021-05-06T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:23:02","slug":"the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"#The 10 Best Comics To Read Alongside Jupiter&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d5432f872\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a34d5432f872\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/#Jupiters_Legacy\" >Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/#Jupiters_Circle\" >Jupiter\u2019s Circle<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/#Jupiters_Legacy_Requiem\" >Jupiter\u2019s Legacy: Requiem<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/#Nemesis\" >Nemesis<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-10-best-comics-to-read-alongside-jupiters-legacy\/#Huck\" >Huck<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The 10 Best Comics To Read Alongside Jupiter&#8217;s Legacy<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>This article is part of <strong>The Reading List<\/strong>, a recurring column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy movie or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV series<\/a> and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies. This entry explores the Jupiter\u2019s Legacy comic as well as the many other Mark Millar stories you\u2019ll want inside your brain after watching the Netflix show.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>What if, though? It\u2019s a popular question in comics. What if Captain America never fell in the ice? What if Kal-El\u2019s ship crash-landed in the Soviet Union instead of Smallville.\u00a0Imagining a character or a world from a slightly different angle gets the fan\u2019s brain buzzing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Millar<\/strong> has made a career from slightly shifting comic book concepts and bending them to his gleeful will. With <em>The Ultimates<\/em>, he brought <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ultimates_(comic_book)\">The Avengers into our post-9\/11 hell<\/a>, injecting a recognizable militaristic edge into their superheroism. It basically served as the blueprint for the MCU. His<em>\u00a0Kick-Ass<\/em> envisioned the reality behind a comic book fanboy putting on the tights and taking his four-color morality to the very ordinary horror of organized crime. <em>Wanted<\/em> supposes a world where supervillains reign supreme and good guys are not a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Millar\u2019s playful retooling of hard-worn ideas makes his stories ideal for adaptation. The audience can read the shorthand and skip quickly ahead and into the weirder bits. His latest page-to-screen jump, <strong><em>Jupiter<\/em>\u2018s <em>Legacy<\/em><\/strong>, depicts a superhero family in crisis. Little generational squabbles become titanic brawls. Suffer the meek that surrounds their feet. You thought the Greek gods were messed up; wait until you get a load of this dysfunctional family unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TY3IAqm-gpE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TY3IAqm-gpE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Jupiter<\/em>\u2018s <em>Legacy<\/em> is a kitchen-sink comic. Millar takes everything he loves and jams it all inside. We\u2019ve got nods to the obvious superhero stuff, but also\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>, <em>King Kong<\/em>, and classroom mythology. All the stuff that sparked his childhood imagination finds its way into some corner of the comic, and then he twists it, often perverts it, and has a giggle. Somewhere in the mischievous translation, Millar unlocks genuine heartache and existential agony.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Mark Millar\u2019s bag. He\u2019s a demented little demon slinging toys in his sandbox. It\u2019s an awe to watch, but then suddenly, a Tonka truck hits you in the head, and you\u2019re crying. Millar\u2019s comics go for it. They\u2019re wild twists on familiar genres and tropes, and often the ideas have ya goin\u2019 \u201cwhoa\u201d while the emotions leave you in a puddle.<\/p>\n<p>Based on early glances, the <em>Jupiter<\/em>\u2018s <em>Legacy<\/em> Netflix adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to cling closely with the comic books. They\u2019re matching costumes for costumes and shots for panels. If you dig on it, you\u2019re going to want to hop into the comic books im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely. <em>The Reading List<\/em> is here to help. While the comic book series is the longest one amongst <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrmarkmillar.com\">the Millarworld publishing line<\/a>,\u00a0it\u2019s still only a handful of trade paperbacks. You\u2019ll want to want to read all of those, but from there, you gotta bounce around.<\/p>\n<p>The comics listed below cover a wide range of stories, all starting from a familiar place but branching out into bizarre new realms. Some have movies already in motion; others are simply waiting for the green light. And that emerald aura will certainly come.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jupiters_Legacy\"><\/span>Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter's Legacy Comic Punch\" width=\"800\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy-768x376.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Sampson lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Some years later, an island appears in his dreams, and he charters a boat in search of its location. Along with his brother and a few college friends, they locate the lost land, which grants them catastrophic power. Sheldon is the series\u2019 Superman stand-in, and he takes his might back to the United States, where he believes he can restore the country to its splendor. Truth, justice, and the American Way. Righteous as hell.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the kids come. Sheldon\u2019s children, Chloe and Brandon, don\u2019t hold his ideals. They use their gifts to maintain their celebrity, but they can\u2019t combat the malaise brewing within them. Outside and inside forces begin to converge, and godly problems become Earth\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>The main <em>Jupiter<\/em>\u2018<em>s Legacy<\/em> comic books are collected within four tight trade paperbacks. They read like lightning and they look even better. <strong>Frank Quitely<\/strong>, who originally collaborated with Millar on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Authority_(comics)\"><em>The Authority<\/em><\/a>, relishes every panel in these stories. Not a line is wasted\u2014every scratch, meaningful. Quitely beautifully balances the mundane and the divine.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jupiters_Circle\"><\/span>Jupiter\u2019s Circle<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365109 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Circle.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter's Legacy Comic Circle\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Circle.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Circle-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Jupiter\u2019s Circle<\/em> is the prequel comic, told in two volumes. It sticks to the goings-on of Sheldon Sampson and the original gang affected by the island. Consider these the glory days for our heroes: the fifties and the sixties. The comic fills in some of the gaps suggested by the main title, explaining how certain familial relationships became as strained as they are when <em>Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<\/em> kicks off. Here is where the comic feels the most like Millar\u2019s <em>Watchmen\u00a0<\/em>as Sampson\u2019s super-team, The Union, smashes against historical moments. Their presence shifts a few things, but maybe not as much as you would suspect.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jupiters_Legacy_Requiem\"><\/span>Jupiter\u2019s Legacy: Requiem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365110 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy-Requiem.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter's Legacy Comic Requiem\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy-Requiem.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jupiters-Legacy-Requiem-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is the end. My only friend, the end. And yes, this is a bit of a cheat as the comic is technically not out yet. The first issue of the twelve-issue maxi-series is scheduled to launch in June, and it promises to be Mark Millar\u2019s final statement on the characters he created a decade ago. What\u2019s the deal with the island? Why did it appear? How did it grant Sampson\u2019s Union their powers? The comic is meant to span a massive swath of time, going back to the begging as well as the present and the future. Millar has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/mark-millar-unveils-next-chapter-of-jupiters-legacy-exclusive-4141187\/\">exclaimed in interviews<\/a> that his dream for <em>Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<\/em>\u00a0comic books was to tell \u201cthe biggest superhero story of all time.\u201d <em>Requiem<\/em> is the pay-off, but he\u2019s not using Frank Quitely to do it. Instead, he\u2019s got <strong>Tommy Lee Edwards<\/strong> delivering the grand vistas. Expect the expected\u2014big, big, big, but watch out for those small jabs too. That\u2019s where Millar always gets ya.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nemesis\"><\/span>Nemesis<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365111 size-full\" title=\"Jupiter's Legacy Comic\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nemesis.jpg\" alt=\"Nemesis\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nemesis.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nemesis-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Comic fans have been waiting for the <em>Nemesis<\/em> movie. Co-created with artist<strong> Steve McNiven<\/strong>, the story carries a touch of <em>Wanted<\/em> in its DNA. The comic was originally sold under the what-if question, \u201cWhat if Batman was the Joker?\u201d Nemesis is just as rich, inventive, dedicated, and as smart as the Dark Knight, but pounding beneath his extremely muscular chest is the blackest of hearts, and his diabolical brain is empathy-free. <em>Nemesis<\/em> is an ugly sit, but that\u2019s often where Millar excels. As you\u2019re reading, you\u2019re laughing, you\u2019re cringing, you\u2019re attempting to keep your jaw off the ground. You don\u2019t put it down, though.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Huck\"><\/span>Huck<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-365112\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Huck.jpg\" alt=\"Huck\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Huck.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Huck-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Huck<\/em> is another Superman slide. One created in response to the author\u2019s traumatic reaction upon witnessing Zack Snyder\u2019s <em>Man of Steel<\/em>. As Millar saw it, and wrote about it in an article entitled \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/millar-reveals-he-created-huck-in-response-to-man-of-steel-trauma\/\">How <em>Man Of Steel<\/em> traumatized me so much I created <em>Huck<\/em><\/a>,\u201d comic books and comic book movies reached their obsession with cartoonish ultra-violence when Clark Kent popped Zod\u2019s neck on screen. Huck is Smallville\u2019s Clark Kent. He\u2019s a mild-mannered gas station attendant who tries to do one good deed a day. Sometimes that\u2019s rescuing a cat out of a tree. Other times it\u2019s Huck charging into battle to rescue a terrified G.I. The town knows what he\u2019s up to, but the rest of the world doesn\u2019t. <em>Huck<\/em> is a sweet, thoughtful examination of spandex heroics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-361222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/next-page.jpg\" alt=\"Next Page\" width=\"364\" height=\"99\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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