Legion—David, the psychically unstable son of Charles Xavier—is one of the characters who turned up in X continuity while I wasn't looking, and writer Si Spurrier isn't taking baby steps introducing me to him in the first issue of the new X-Men Legacy, as his “real” world is laid atop the psychic prison in which versions of himself clash with other, more dangerous “inmates,” while a guru attempts to lead him to a healthier normalcy (and, this being an X comic, with predictably disastrous results). The psychic realm that Spurrier has come up with is intriguingly disturbing; though Tan Eng Huat's art leans a bit more toward the quirky than the menacing, it does a good job of helping keep the reader off balance, as David begins his journey back to humanity, bringing some pretty scary mental baggage with him. This first issue is more about character delineation than exposition or story development, and readers more familiar than I with Legion, as a chara Read Full Review
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