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Normally, I spend most of my reviews talking about story & maybe touch on the art at the end if it is especially good or especially bad.  But when the comic involves George Perez and huge number of characters and group shots, I’ve got to lead with: Wow!  This book is beautiful.

With that aside, it’s also a good read.  Very good, even.  Geoff Johns handles the task of laying out the Legion’s fifty year history in comics amazingly well.  This is a long book with lots of talking head moments, but somehow the story continuously moves forward.  The fantastic art doesn’t hurt a bit in that department, either.

My only complaint about this book is the leap of logic that brings in the Legions of three worlds.  I think I can safely mention this without spoiling anything since it is kind of inherent in the title of the book.  But it goes something like this:

Superman: “Superboy-Prime is a bad me from another universe.”

Brainiac 5: “Well, then, the only logical response is for us to recruit two additional Legions of Superheroes from alternate universes to fight him.”

Honestly, it isn’t much smoother than that.  It did give Perez the chance to draw two full-page spreads of the alternate Legions, which is a good thing.  I can over look that one contrived moment (even though it is the set up for the entire series) as long as the writing and art continue to be this strong. 

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