If I ran things, I would have put Byrne on the first half and Bandini on the second – Byrne’s kids seem young which fits the IG story well, and, hey, sometimes you just have to bow to nominative determinism. Legion arguably owes more to Archie then it does to Superman, and Hyperion and the Imperial Squad follows in that same vein.īoth Bandini and Stephen Byrne are really good fits for the comic, as well. For the sort of comic that they’re aping – for the Legion, regardless of the iteration, that’s the most important thing. In the backup, it’s really about the familial relationship of the Summerses. There’s a plot and all that, but what it’s really about is Hyperion’s love with Oracle, and Neutron’s with Flashfire, and Gladiator’s love for all of them.
Oh, sure, there’s the stuff with Darkseid and the Daxamites, but there’s a significant sub-plot about how Lightning Lass thinks that Saturn Girl is sleeping with her boyfriend.Īnd it’s the same here. Look at the Great Darkness Saga, for instance. As much as they are about fighting Mordru or the Fatal Five or Prince Evillo, they’re about who’s sleeping with who, and who wants to sleep with who. To avoid spoilers, I won’t go too deeply into what happens in this comic’s plot, but Ryan Cady and Michele Bandini manage to perfectly capture the feel of a Legion of Super-Heroes book.
