Superboy joins the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st century to help them stop a baddie from using Aquaman’s trident to do something bad! Feeling r-worded? Then let’s talk about the Legion of Poopoo-heroes!
I’ve never cared about the Legion before but I hoped Bendis would find a way to make me with his take on the title - and, unfortunately, he didn’t. This first volume is the worst book he’s written so far at DC.
Bendis’ crappiest comics are always team books because they allow him to indulge in the worst excesses of his writing: overabundant dialogue and zero story (if there is a story it’s usually generic superhero crapola - like here!). Legion is especially bad because. My. Word. There are WAY too many characters in this series! Fucking hundreds. And they ALL suck!
The book opens with two pointless issues where Rose and Thorn (another dreary D-Lister) is jumping around time for some reason before we get to the main story where Superboy time-travels to the future (another overused Bendis trope: blase time-travel, ignoring any of the obvious problems this causes) where he spends most of his time being talked at by these great many characters. I can’t tell you any of their names because none made an impression - they’re all so generic and forgettable.
There’s a feeble attempt at a story involving Aquaman’s trident that didn’t make sense, let alone entertained in the least, before things closed out with a tedious big fight scene - the Legion fighting a bunch of generic aliens, headed up by a generic beefy bad guy, and that’s it. It couldn’t be more predictable or unimaginative.
This is such a boring book. Characters you don’t care about talking - so much talking - about nothing, not doing anything remotely interesting, for nearly 200 pages. Legion of Super-Heroes, Volume 1: Millennium is an utterly dismal read, not recommended to anyone - the Legion remains one of the dullest titles of the DCU.
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