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Supergirl & the Legion of Super Heroes: The Quest for Cosmic Boy

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This collection of comics serves as a transition point for both this version of the Legion of Superheroes and the creative team behind it. Mark Waid had been the driving force behind this version of the Legion but he left the comic right before this issues gathered in this collection. Tony Bedard is a fine comic writer but he does not do well with the threebooted version of the Legion. To be blunt, the Legion is the closest thing there is to a Tolstoyian epic in comics with tons of characters and scores of worlds. Instead of juggling between various plot threads, Bedard splits the team up--and then focuses on the first group, then the second and then the third. It's a bit different than what Legion fans would expect from the likes of Paul Levitz, Jim Shooter and Waid--and it simply does not work well.

After the epic of the Dominator War, the Legion seems to be suffering in the aftermath with Cosmic Boy, the leader of the group under Waid, off the scene. Supergirl and Brainiac 5 get most of the screen time--a bit odd since Supergirl is then rushed off the scene in one of the stranger and more convenient plot devices I have come across in some time. The art is a bit dark but certainly not bad by any means.

Waid's run on the Legion was marked by having an ensemble cast. Some of the more memorable of Waid's characterizations of the Legion members are absent here. Bedard did not last long on the Legion--perhaps he would have found his groove. But this collection of issues contain some of the worst ones I have come across in the threebooted version of the Legion. That's not to say they are bad but the story is not particularly memorable and seems out of synch with where the series had been up till now.

what i look for in a collection is great writing and brilliant art and this has both in one nice and tidy package. Tony Bedard is a great storyteller with a brilliant ear for dialogue and Dennis Calero deliver the goods in each and every panel adding a more realistic take on these very animated characters that i find very appealing.

highly recommended.

J.p.

After the devastation of the Dominion War and disappearance of their leader (and the departure of their long-time creative team) the Legion rebuilds and takes off on new adventures.

New writer Tony Bedard and artist Dennis Calero take the Legion in a new direction splitting the team into small groups to try and track down Cosmic Boy. In the process long missing Legionnaires like Matter Eater Lad and Wildfire make their return.

It's a fun book that makes the 2004 Legion likeable and fun. Unfortunately their run was cut short for the return of 60s era Legion writer Jim Shooter, and then his run was cut short for the return of 80s writer Paul Levitz.

The Legion could be a great comic, if anyone was allowed to stick with it.

I really enjoy these stories of the Legion with Supergirl. It is good fun to read and the art is good.