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X-Men Legacy, Vol. 1: Prodigal (2013)

by Simon Spurrier(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785162496 (ISBN13: 9780785162490)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

series

X-Men Legacy Vol. II (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: An inventive start for a series. It centers on Legion (David Haller), Professor X's troubled son--the one who may have murdered his dad in the past once and set into motion an alternate-universe dystopia. Anyway, Legion's gimmick is that he has multiple-personality disorder, with each of his personalities controlling a different fantastic power.As our story starts, David (he hates being called Legion) is trying to gain control over his powers and personalities at some kind of Himalayan mutant retreat. Everything is thrown into chaos when his father is killed, though, and he spends the rest of the volume trying to gain control over his rioting powers, even as he struggles to come to grips with the failings of his dad's advocacy for mutants.This ends up spurring a journey th... morerough China, Japan and good-old Westchester, New York as David meets a psychotic pair of psychic eyes, tangles with the X-men and tries to rescue a pair of Japanese kids--also mutants--from a life of violence. Writer Simon Spurrier does a good job driving the plot and providing some laughs with the dialogue. The art--particularly the first three issues by Tan Eng Huat--is good as well.The storyline does tread some iffy ground in its dealings with mental illness. David is portrayed as a unique case, which he is, but his moments of triumph over illness do perpetuate the idea that will and focus are what's needed to triumph. That's a little uncomfortable, but at the same time, it's obviously a fantastic story, and I was won over by its energy.
review 2: This is a fun enough story. I didn't realize Legion was really still around until he showed up in Second Coming. I thought he kind of got wormholed up when Age of Apocalypse ended somehow.He winds up being an interesting and sympathetic character, but the book's use of mental illness as a gimmick can be unsettling. It seems like mental illness is either a superpower or the explanation for a villain but not, you know, a mental illness in these superhero comicbooks. less

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