Not only does Chameleon Boy specifically call out to his last trip to Durla before this book - an adventure published almost twenty years ago in one of Levitz's earlier runs on Legion - but Levitz's approach to the Legion hasn't much changed either. Long-time Legion fans will find much to enjoy in this one. We have seen plenty of multi-species wars in the Legion titles before it's actually refreshing that this turns out to be a more basic crime story than another lofty tale among others.

Levitz portrays this well, and what could have been a run-of-the-mill conspiracy story becomes a mystery with a nice twist at the end. Consequences will leave ardent Legion fans hungry for the next volume, but I wonder if with this one we'll lose some of those that were on the fence.Ĭonsequences's driving story is of a plot by shapeshifting Durlans to assassinate members of the United Planets council. You must be really invested to read a collection that follows these characters but bears little connection to the previous book. The Legion of Super-Heroes titles remain at the top of my reading list, but Consequences is the kind of Legion collection that reinforces how much dedication it takes to be a Legion fan. It does not help the vague nature of this collection that in the hardcover, at least, some of the chapters are printed out of order. Consequences picks up some threads from the previous volume The Choice and entirely overlooks others it also ends very suddenly, underlining that where the collection ends was not so much foremost in the mind of the author. I use the word 'saga' specifically here, because indeed Levitz seems to be writing a Legion opus, as he's done before, that pays no real mind to the structures of issue nor collection. Legion of Super-Heroes: Consequences is a fine next chapter in Paul Levitz's ongoing Legion saga.

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