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heres_the_thing's review
3.0
A very decent jumping off point for the Legion. I agree with some other comments on here — Cosmic Boy, that’s a heck of a name — and, as always when I read a superhero team-up, I’m fascinated by how every is like. Fifteen.
The story does attempt to explain this away by saying that fourteen is the age of majority in most planetary systems, and there are some interesting conversations that could be had about that, but it’s a fun and futuristic entry into a DC property I’m unfamiliar with. Nice themes of teamwork throughout, and it’s interesting in general to see this type of episodic adventure/fantastic racism story in its 90s glory. Art feels pretty golden age, despite not being of the golden age.
The story does attempt to explain this away by saying that fourteen is the age of majority in most planetary systems, and there are some interesting conversations that could be had about that, but it’s a fun and futuristic entry into a DC property I’m unfamiliar with. Nice themes of teamwork throughout, and it’s interesting in general to see this type of episodic adventure/fantastic racism story in its 90s glory. Art feels pretty golden age, despite not being of the golden age.
stevenk's review
3.0
The first complete reboot of the 31st century super-hero team that has been around since the late 1950's. This story feels rushed, with the writers wanting to introduce a lot of characters in short order rather than having the Legion grow slowly over time from the founding three (Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad/Livewire, and Saturn Girl) to catch up to the size of the young SW6 batch of clones from the old Legionnaires series. Part of the fun of the Legion was how they were a bunch of kids with a clubhouse inspired by Superboy/Supergirl/Mon-El from our time to form their team, but it also caused problems when major events in contemporary comics undid the basis for the Legion's version of the future. This story does away with that and just has the Legion founder RJ Brande and the original three Legionnaires being generally inspired by the superheroes of today. This book collects LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #0, #62-68, and LEGIONNAIRES #0, #19-24 with an introduction by Mark Waid.
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