Jupiter's Legacy #1 - I've had a theory about Mark Millar for a few years now that I'm going to share with the class. He needs a good editor. He needs to be reigned in, because when he isn't he goes overboard on sex, violence, and all manner of depravity. Now there's a good writer in there. His runs on books like The Ultimates, Swamp Thing and even Civil War show that, but he needs someone to tell him "that's enough Mark.". I'm not sure who has taken that role on Jupiter's Legacy but they need to be commended. This is the most restrained I've seen Millar in... well, possibly forever. Maybe its just wanting to work with Frank Quietly again has brought out something more subtle in him. In a normal Millar book when the heroes beat the generic villain to death its shown in every gory detail, but here we get an amazingly beautiful panel of the construction of a mindscape using the different layers of art to show it coming together. Then its just a rather matter of fact conversation about how one of them isn't going to make it back out. There's nothing new in this comic for a long time reader but there is something new for its writer and I think its something we should support. Millar might finally be growing into who he has the potential to be instead of someone who makes the DC characters he desperately wants to write into sociopaths.
Young Avengers #4 - Each issue of this comic does something different that makes me love it a bit more. Initially I was skeptical about someone other than Allan Heinberg doing the series but Gillen has really knocked it out of the park. This issue's moment was the two page spread done almost like an insane murder version of The Family Circus's follow Jeffery comics. We got a key and blown up versions of the incidents floating around the boarders.It made me stop and appreciate what was happening instead of just passing through what could have easily been another forgettable action sequence. And Kid Loki steals every scene he opens his mouth in. I need to get to reading this big pile of Journey Into Mystery beside my bed...
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