I have to admit, I have a bias. I grew up with comic books because of my father, and have a deep appreciation for the medium. I had access to forty years of X-Men comics, and samplings of Spidey, the FF, Avengers and Daredevil . . .
"The Legion of Nothing" has the high level of excitement that these works carried in the early days. The anticipation of new characters and their origin stories, discovering their powers, working out code-names, and making the mistakes of youth.
The characters are in high school at the onset of the serial, and manage their superheroics with all the angst of puberty, amidst homework and worrying about their parents. Their ideals that lead them to heroism ring true, as do the mistakes along the way.
I always wanted to be a superhero in high school, and "The Legion of Nothing" is like a vicarious taste of that adventure.
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I tell people I’m a writer because I can’t read, thus I find myself guilty of the sin of hoping for reviews when I don’t often review myself.
One of the few series I find myself able to follow without prompting is ‘The Legion of Nothing’, which, in my glaring opinion, is an affectionate homage to great classic hero teams. To me there’s nothing richer than a good team book: adventure, gathering forces and looking out for one another, it encompasses everything heartwarming and good about the genre.
If there were any direct comparison to mainstream comics on the market I would say that Legion of Nothing reads less like ‘Teen Titans’ and more like ‘JSA: the Next Generation.’ This is so because instead of having a group made up of sidekicks and heroes in training you have a group of young people who are already stepping into the boots of legends.
All the while the serial manages to maintain a fun, bouncy vibe as childhood friendships are forged into comradery.
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