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Playing With Toys – A Look At Jupiter's Legacy Vol 2 #1

Peculiarly, previews of Jupiter's Legacy Vol 2 #1 by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely  feature the final pages of this issue and, presumably, subsequent pages of issue 2.

But it's one of the real opening pages of the new issue published today from Image Comics, that sets up much of what is happening, both in plot and theme. We have a young boy, child of a superhero, who plays with action figures. In favour of spending time with his real father, and a real superhero.

While all manner of those real superheroes gather outside, resembling nothing less than the toys he plays with. And that is a central thought behind Jupiter's Legacy, taking all manner of colourful figures and smacking them together. It's what informs the appeal of almost all superhero comic books from that juvenile desire to mix stuff up and see what happens, laid bare on the page.

Which means the events a few pages, and a few decades later, should provide no surprises whatsoever.

And we have a man collecting action figures – or rather super villains – from around the world, to both complete his collection and engage in an even more colourful and fun fight.

And it's deliberately mixing up characters as if they were from different lines – and different sizes…

The big vs the little… David Vs Goliath… the 3 inch figure vs the 6 inch versus the 12 inch.

It's just a game. And so, for all the grounding that Quitely's artwork brings, portraying space, people's space in it, momentum and velocity, a real presence on the page up there with the likes of Frank Cho, Milo Manara and Carla Speed McNeil, we have a small boy playing with his toys.

And it works.

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