I highly recommend this volume, but I also recommend getting it with the second volume in the series, Death of a Dream if you can afford it. I have no doubt this is deliberate on his part. In keeping with that tradition, Kitson makes the characters look alike, but gives them just enough differences facially to keep them very separate.
Inkist and colorist series#
It started because earliest artists for the series weren't that committed to distinguishing the characters with that level of detail. In the earliest versions of the Legion, I was never really able to tell the facial difference between Ultra Boy, Timber Wolf, and Colossal Lad. Kitson also manages to keep a balance between introducing new elements and giving nods to classic ones.
There are some complete misses though, such as his design for Element Lad, which just doesn't work. His redesign of Lightning Lad's costume is genius, as is his design for Star Boy. He radically redesigns the costumes of some characters and they work for the most part. Overall though, Kitson does some brilliant work.
Whatever the creative team was going for, it doesn't quite "click" and jars the reader a bit. Kitson also makes some odd choices with rendering a few too many scenes in dark, heavy tones. Creatively, the real villain in this set of issues is the colorist, who completely misjudged the tone of these issues, and who adopts a dark, muddy, pastel palette that hurts the optimistic, hopeful tone the series is striving for. Sometimes it's all too cute for its own good, but for the most part, Waid shows his readers respect by at least taking time to think things through, a rarity in comics.īarry Kitson does excellent work here. Colossal boy i a giant who can "shrink," and "Triplicate Girl" is the last survivor of a race who can replicate herself as a evolutionary defense measure. Whatever one wants to say about Mark Waid, he's certainly the most cerebral writer working in comics today, showing that, instead of merely introducing arbitrary concepts that have no logic, some of the changes he makes are logical extensions or tweaks of given circumstances Saturn Girl, a telepath, is mute because her race talks exclusively through telepathy. The characters ring true and are mostly, each distinctly recognize personalities. The work by Mark Waid is some of his smartest and most involving in recent years. The issues here do mainly two things they introduce the concept of the legion and give the background on some select characters, while also laying the groundwork for a story that will have a pay-off in the second collection of the title. This version is a brand new take, and is an excellent collection of smart, involving stories with likeable characters and excellent dialogue. This collection includes issues 1-6 of the Legion of Superheroes, a concept that has endured at DC for several years, and has seen several incarnations.
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