Lost - then and now - took the Star Trek: Voyager approach to the Legion franchise, stranding a team of Legionnaires far away from the Legion's rules and regulations and examining how they survive when Legion ethics aren't reinforced all around them (another New 52 moniker might have been "Legion of Super-Heroes Dark"). It's no coincidence, assuredly, that Abnett and Lanning are thanked on Run from Tomorrow's credits page. The New 52 Legion Lost, therefore, would seem to be trying to establish itself mainly on name recognition - if "Legion Lost" worked once before, maybe "Legion Lost" would work again. Prior to Levitz, the Legion title's most recent glory days probably was Legion Lost - the 2000 twelve-issue miniseries by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, that is. It's hard to believe sales figures on Paul Levitz's pre- Flashpoint Legion and Adventure Comics were sufficient to warrant a third spin-off, though it was the best-written the Legion had been in a while. Another of these would appear to be Legion Lost. Thus readers saw such experimental titles as Men of War, later relaunched as GI Combat and later cancelled. That said, however, if the reader is a Legion fan and does particularly like Wildfire, Dawnstar, Gates, Tellus, Timber Wolf and the rest, Nicieza does a nice job even if it's hard to tell what audience this book is aiming for.Īt the outset of DC's original New 52 titles, there seemed to be a willingness to throw all the good ideas out there and see what stuck.
It begs the question what readership Legion Lost is for hardly is there a significant audience out there looking for a small-team Legion book spotlighting Legionnaires Wildfire or Dawnstar or Gates, as evinced by this book's cancellation after its next volume. This is most assuredly the Legion of Super-Heroes book for those who don't like the Legion of Super-Heroes, surprisingly light on real Legion fare. DC Comics goes three-for-three with their New 52 "Young Justice" line Scott Lobdell's Superboy and Teen Titans both impressed, and now Fabian Nicieza has delivered with Legion Lost: Run from Tomorrow.
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