If big stand alone elseworld events like Future State exist to experiment and take established characters in new unpredictable directions, what's the reason for keeping the very same writer who's responsible for their main continuity entries? Wouldn't it be a good opportunity to bring in fresh blood who could do something new and fresh with them, even if only for 1 or 2 issues?
Brian Michael Bendis is a very polarizing figure in comics, to say very gently. And no matter if you love or hate his works at DC, you wouldn't him nor his comic characters to be kept stagnant, with one particular style of writing no matter which continuity or time period the setting is.

And that's ultimately my problem with this comic - it is precisely the Legion you'd expect from Bendis, with the same critical flaws like overall boredom and excessive amount of expository dialogue. There's no real new direction here, just same old, same old, but this time with Riley Rossmo's distinct art that also, just like Bendis' writing, is going to make you either love it or hate it. I doubt many people will be left in the actual middle, feeling indifferent towards either of them.

To me it's a lost cause. Skip it. more

I was really looking forward to see what that had here for the Legion and I was very disappointed when I opened it up to see that it was written by Bendis. His run on the Legion was awful, so it didn't give me great expectations here, but I was willing to give it a try. Then, I see that the art is by Riley Rossmo and as usual, his art is just awful. I'm not sure how he has a job drawing comics.

The combination of the two (a typically bad story by Bendis and horrible art by Rossmo)gave exactly what I would expect..garbage.

Once again, I beg DC to give the Legion a title with a decent writer and artist. I miss the Legion. more

This issue was so annoying. I don't want to talk about this run anymore.

I love Ivan Reis, but Bendis on Superman is absolute trash

UHHHHG...If I could give this issue a negative rating I would. Thankfully the God awful Bendis reign of terror is over. I actually wrote out an in depth review of this book and deleted it because it didn't deserve the effort of a full review. I will say this though Bendis never understood what Superman in 2020 should be and portrayed Lois Lane well beyond the scope of what the character needed to be. I can only hope that Phillip Kennedy Johnson has the good sense to leave his personal politics out of the stories that he writes when he takes over the book in March 2021. more

This was a part of the galaxy so far away that no one, including Superman, had seen before, and yet The United Planets (another over-used Bendis conceit) manage to get there in virtually no time. How? Art was great, storyline was too confusing to dig into.

I don't want to talk about this anymore.

I don’t hate Bendis usually, but his work at DC save for Batman Universe and the first few issues of Young Justice has been headache inducing. Maybe he can focus back down to one series for a while.

The boys are back in town ~

Not bad, the art is great

It is... fine I suppose? I really like Capullo's art and I really didn't hate anything. Maybe I just don't care anymore. Or maybe because there isn't so much mumbo jumbo in here that makes me question everything. There is some, but not too much.

And BWL starts to act like himself. A bit. I finally see the Joker and Bruce in him. It doesn't make me care about him or anything, but it's nice to see.

So, 6/10 could be worse? more

I have been less consistently sour on Bendis's Superman than most here - I'll never understand spending all that money on something you know you'll hate - but wow this is absolutely incoherent. The only good thing in the issue was just a restatement of the conclusion to Fraction & Lieber's Jimmy Olsen, and if there was ever an issue that did not benefit from reminding you of better Superman stories, this is it.

I never expected Superman to be a title that played to Bendis's strengths as a writer, but this is such a mess that it's hard to remember that it was done by a writer who HAS strengths — or an artist, for that matter. What happened to JRJR's once-considerable storytelling skills? There's one panel that's impossible to see as anything other than Supergirl holding Superman's shed skin — which might be creepy, but it's hard not to wish I was reading that story instead, it couldn't be worse than this shambling catastrophe. more

No one cares about rogol zaar

Oh, this is just so poorly written. I don't understand. But I also don't care. The resolution of the Daily Planet stuff has already been known for literal months. And I still hate the Multiverse concept from Lois Lane, which I guess must be resolved now even though we get barely any answers? Whose terrible idea was that? Bendis or Rucka? This is just the worst and there's another whole issue after this! Ugh. more