The premise of this book is that legion of superheroes (or part of it anyway) come to modern times.  The legion is a large sprawling group of heroes with a dense continuity and back story.  It is complex enough in their own setting, but by bringing them to modern times it just a layer of complexity that probably isn’t needed.

Even though these characters have been around, they try really hard to get new readers up to speed.  sometimes it becomes comical how hard they try.  Each character is refered to by name ‘Hey ____ what are you doing’ and also references their major power ‘Well, _____ I’m moving rocks with my telekinesis’  It seems ridiculous that everyone is announcing their powers all the time, but it helps new readers.

The art is solid, but uninspired.  Does the job, but it will never wow you.  But a team of teen heroes from the future can be a lot of fun.   C    —— Don

The Legion has lived through more continuity reboots than the entire DCU itself, but always feels familiar. This group could easily fit in with the relatively recent takes on the Legion, and while setting the book in the present seems like it’d defeat most of the purpose of the characters who are supposed to be set in the 31st century, it makes for a decent “fish out of water” premise, however cliched that might be. It’s hard not to compare it to the previous Legion Lost series, which had a group of Legionnaires teleported impossibly far out of the the known universe, but on its own it’s a fun read with a lot of cliched but necessary explanations about the characters, their situations, and their powers. As long is it doesn’t go the Wolverine route of having each character talk about themselves every single time and moves forward, I can see myself sticking with the book for a while.

B    —- Ed