Comic Info
Comic Name: X-Men Legacy (Volume 2)
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Writer: Simon Spurrier
Artist: Tan Eng Huat/Paul Davidson
# of Issues: 6
Release Date: 2013
X-Men Legacy (2) #9
Reprints X-Men Legacy (2) #7-12 (May 2013-August 2013). Legion might just have a new girlfriend in Blindfold…even if she considers him an enemy. When Legion gets a glimpse of the future in which he could destroy the Earth, David must find a way to stop his powers…and it might mean seeking out an anti-mutant group promising a dangerous cure.
Written by Simon Spurrier, X-Men Legacy 2: Invasive Exotics follows X-Men Legacy 1: Prodigal. The Marvel NOW! series continued to undersell, but garnered praise from critics and fans. The second half of the collection is made up of the three part storyline “Invasive Exotics”.
I haven’t read much of the X-Men since they landed in San Francisco. The stories were dull, garbled, and lacked the fun that made early “new” X-Men fun. Much like the dark and odd Grant Morrison run on New X-Men, X-Men Legacy has some of the fun returned to it.
If anything, X-Men Legacy suffers from being too complex. Many comics can’t find that balance between talk and action and X-Men Legacy leans toward heavy dialogue. The story is often heavily complex and I’ll be honest, I don’t always get the mental battle going on inside of David’s head, but it is often incidental to the storytelling.
X-Men Legacy (2) #10
I like that this volume decided to use a non-traditional X-Men enemy. Despite being an Avengers/Captain America villain, the Red Skull also makes perfect sense in the X-Men. The white supremacist Nazi aspect of the character is a natural for wanting to eliminate genetic oddities like the X-Men (or in other stories I could see him seeing them as the next step).
On a side note, I will say that though X-Men Legacy’s art is strong, the covers for the series are fantastic. If you could judge a book by the cover, this would be one of them. Mike Del Mundo is a great artist and really adds fun to the title just in his covers. While the comic artists are good, Del Mundo is fantastic.
X-Men Legacy is a fun comic that is doomed in its creativity. Though it might have a small, rabid fan base, the comic probably has no hope of surviving just on this. I would like Marvel to give titles like this a bit more of a chance, but I know that isn’t possible. X-Men Legacy 2: Invasive Exotics is followed by X-Men Legacy 3: Revenants.
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