Jupiter's Legacy
3 total works
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.
In 1929, six friends were called to a mysterious island and returned home with super-powers. The story that unfolded is like none before, a huge mythological tale that explores everything from superheroes enforcing their real-world politics on humanity to the secret, alien origins of the human race itself. Jupiter’s Legacy covers three generations of heroes in a vast trilogy that has been described as The Lord of the Rings for superheroes. Featuring stunning art and designs from co-creator Frank Quitely and interior art by Wilfredo Torres.
A sales smash when originally released, this series was also adapted into a huge $100 million adaptation for Netflix. Every once in a while, there’s a defining superhero project from Dark Knight to Watchmen to The Ultimates and The Authority and Jupiter’s Legacy belongs in this milieu. Millar has described it as the best work of his entire career and this first volume is a Hollywood Babylon for the superheroes of the Golden Age.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter’s Legacy Volume 1 and Volume 2.
In 1929, six friends were called to a mysterious island and returned home with super-powers. The story that unfolded is like none before, a huge mythological tale that explores everything from superheroes enforcing their real-world politics on humanity to the secret, alien origins of the human race itself. Jupiter’s Legacy covers three generations of heroes in a vast trilogy that has been described as The Lord of the Rings for superheroes. Featuring stunning art and designs from co-creator Frank Quitely and interior art by Wilfredo Torres.
A sales smash when originally released, this series was also adapted into a huge $100 million adaptation for Netflix. Every once in a while, there’s a defining superhero project from Dark Knight to Watchmen to The Ultimates and The Authority and Jupiter’s Legacy belongs in this milieu. Millar has described it as the best work of his entire career and this first volume is a Hollywood Babylon for the superheroes of the Golden Age.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter’s Legacy Volume 1 and Volume 2.
The secret of the universe is finally revealed as the superheroes show mankind who made us.
It started with a call from an island in 1929, a desperate man receiving messages in his dreams to come and save America. It ends with his children and grandchildren discovering that the superpowers he received in that weird place in the middle of the ocean was planned as mankind’s undoing.
There’s never been a superhero story like this, an epic reaching from the dawn of man to the end of humanity and everything in between. This volume is the stunning conclusion to a storyline twelve years in the making, a major Netflix series and a crowning achievement for the creators involved.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy: Finale #1–#5.
It started with a call from an island in 1929, a desperate man receiving messages in his dreams to come and save America. It ends with his children and grandchildren discovering that the superpowers he received in that weird place in the middle of the ocean was planned as mankind’s undoing.
There’s never been a superhero story like this, an epic reaching from the dawn of man to the end of humanity and everything in between. This volume is the stunning conclusion to a storyline twelve years in the making, a major Netflix series and a crowning achievement for the creators involved.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy: Finale #1–#5.
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.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy 1 and 2.
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.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy 1 and 2.