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Let’s talk about Legion. Before he got his own TV show as the first ever live action X-Men show to reach full series, he was a comic book character. Legion, real name David, is the son of Charles Xavier. His mutant power is the ability to absorb other people’s psyches into himself and gaining their powers when he gives their mind lease.
This basically makes him crazy, as he’s got a whole head full of absorbed personalities all vying for control of his body. Though he first premiered in 1985 in an issue of X-Force, he didn’t really come into his own in the X-Men mythos till a decade later, in a story entitled Legion Quest.
That’s what I’m looking at today, the story that put Legion on the X-map, for better and worse. It’s a curious beast, a crossover from 3 of the major X-men comics of the time that set off one the biggest crossover events in Marvel history. In fact, the only way the series has ever been collected is in relation to the event it spawned, Age of Apocalypse, which I reviewed last year.
That gives it a direct link to one of the biggest blunders in Marvel history, the comic series that helped bring about Marvel’s bankruptcy in 1996 and believe me it shows- there is no better single example of bad 1990s comics than Legion Quest.
