Seeing the Legion crossed with Batman Beyond is always a kick, not to mention the sheer storytelling possibilities in what Brainiac 5, Mon-El, Naomi, and Kamandi might find in the amalgamation of a Leviathan/“Command D” stronghold.īut the answer is that they ultimately find nothing, and this is very much indicative of League vs. There, we watched the immortal Rose Forrest (of “and the Thorn”) age forward in time through many of DC’s notable futuristic landscapes, and here we visit those again as elements of the Legion’s past. It’s also a nice callback to the Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium miniseries that kicked all of this off. Legion is in good company at the point in which members of the two teams are partnered up and spread throughout time, evoking any number of previous superhero team-ups. Bendis' Legion moved at a slow pace, to its detriment, but we can see there was plenty material to mine. Not any of this did we know about Gold Lantern through the 12 issues of the regular series, and one imagines Bendis had equally interesting origins for Monster Boy, the new Doctor Fate, and so on. The second issue origin of Gold Lantern Kala Lour is fantastic - beholden no doubt to the tropes of Green Lantern origins, but providing significant detail about Lour, including that he comes from a planet where half the population is blind, he was a school teacher, and he’s something of a pacifist. Legion that Bendis could have made a long go of his Legion of Super-Heroes series. It’s clearer than ever coming out of League vs. Legion story just under the surface here, that the book sometimes ducks its more interesting storylines for something that emerges as simply rote. But frustratingly there feels a greater League vs. Also artist Scott Godlewski is spot-on, with a hint of rounded cartoony-ness that reminds of the ye olde Legionnaires series. There is a perfectly workable story here, with a couple impressive cameos, and indeed Bendis brings his Legion run to something of a close with callbacks to the beginning of the series. We can all intuit reasons, of course - given regime changes at DC, whatever JLvLSH was meant to be, it likely ceased to be that after a good part of it was already planned - but it remains that given the potential scope for this book, League/Legion ultimately feels too small. Legion of Super-Heroes is that very lack of connection. But among stumbling blocks for Brian Michael Bendis' Justice League vs. I have perhaps too often decried DC Comics perpetual event machine, in which the purpose of every crisis (and their numerous pricey tie-ins) is simply to lead to the next, and the next.
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