Circle

The team’s adventures lead them down unexpected paths.

A new villain ups the ante with a threat that unites former enemies-and creates new ones.

Skyfox was once a member of America’s greatest super team-now he’s kidnapped the Vice President in a bid to stop the Vietnam War.

MATURE READERS COLLECTS ISSUES 1-5! Red Sonja, now older and battle-scarred, has turned away from the warrior’s lifestyle of bloodshed and vengeance. As the headmistress of an academy for sword maidens, she prepares a new generation of She-Devils to face whatever conflicts and horrors the Hyborian Age can muster. However, when the fate of the world once again stands upon the edge of blade, Sonja must come out of retirement to wield it! Deep in the shadowy realm of southern Stygia, cultists have performed a blood ritual, giving birth to Sutekh, the son of the ancient god Set. A winged reptilian with the power to draw human souls out of his victim’s bodies, the vicious demigod raises an army to conquer all mankind. Kingdoms fall one by one before his wrath, and the temples of all other gods are razed to the ground. Red Sonja, aided by her prize pupils, must blaze a path to the fabled God Caves in search of the only divine power capable of matching Sutekh’s might… but to win the favor

This second “Jupiter’s Circle” series has felt progressively odder with each new installment. By that, I don’t mean in terms of new foes or daring heroics; if anything, the stories within the individual issues have felt like very standard superhero stories. However, looking back over the past five issues, it feels like Mark Millar, Chris Sprouse, Walden Wong and Ty Templeton have taken the series title a little too literally. After he quit at the end of the first miniseries, George comes back to the team in “Jupiter’s Circle” #5, and his return held a lot of promise. Considering Walter is still around after their conflict in the previous series, the character returns in a fun way: by saving the day after the others had their powers stolen. However, when Walter promptly admits to George that he’d used his powers to steal George’s wife away from him — and triggers another fight between the two — it undoes the step forward the series took in one fell swoop, steering the series towards t