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X-Men Legacy, Vol. 2: Invasive Exotics (2013)

by Simon Spurrier(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785167188 (ISBN13: 9780785167181)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

series

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

review 1: Reprints X-Men Legacy (2) #7-12 (May 2013-August 2013). Legion might just have a new girlfriend in Blindfold...even if she considers him an enemy. When Legion gets a glimpse of the future in which he could destroy the Earth, David must find a way to stop his powers...and it might mean seeking out an anti-mutant group promising a dangerous cure.Written by Simon Spurrier, X-Men Legacy 2: Invasive Exotics follows X-Men Legacy 1: Prodigal. The Marvel NOW! series continued to undersell, but garnered praise from critics and fans. The second half of the collection is made up of the three part storyline “Invasive Exotics”.I haven’t read much of the X-Men since they landed in San Francisco. The stories were dull, garbled, and lacked the fun that made early “new” X-... moreMen fun. Much like the dark and odd Grant Morrison run on New X-Men, X-Men Legacy has some of the fun returned to it.If anything, X-Men Legacy suffers from being too complex. Many comics can’t find that balance between talk and action and X-Men Legacy leans toward heavy dialogue. The story is often heavily complex and I’ll be honest, I don’t always get the mental battle going on inside of David’s head, but it is often incidental to the storytelling.I like that this volume decided to use a non-traditional X-Men enemy. Despite being an Avengers/Captain America villain, the Red Skull also makes perfect sense in the X-Men. The white supremacist Nazi aspect of the character is a natural for wanting to eliminate genetic oddities like the X-Men (or in other stories I could see him seeing them as the next step).On a side note, I will say that though X-Men Legacy’s art is strong, the covers for the series are fantastic. If you could judge a book by the cover, this would be one of them. Mike Del Mundo is a great artist and really adds fun to the title just in his covers. While the comic artists are good, Del Mundo is fantastic.X-Men Legacy is a fun comic that is doomed in its creativity. Though it might have a small, rabid fan base, the comic probably has no hope of surviving just on this. I would like Marvel to give titles like this a bit more of a chance, but I know that isn’t possible. X-Men Legacy 2: Invasive Exotics is followed by X-Men Legacy 3: Revenants.
review 2: Terrible art when it's not Tan Eng Huat, continuing Marvel's trend of sub-standard fill-in artists, and the ludicrous nature with which the villain is introduced and used is a major letdown/ dealbreaker for this series, given the connection the villain shares with David. This series is odd, and I like that, but there needs to be emotional payout with the oddsy-woddsy (see: Grant Morrison's DOOM PATROL). less

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