There's certainly enough goodwill bought in these pages to merit this comic to be a BUY for me. Going forward, I would love for the team to shoot for the moon and keep their strong focus. Read Full Review

Enter Dr. Hannah Jones, psycho-therapist to the stars, who is emerging as a media star in her own right " doing tv interviews and featured in Ebony and New Yorker magazine profiles. She is the perfect ally for Legion but he has to get to her before Lord Trauma does. Milligan and Torres have accomplished a near perfect set-up for the series in their opening salvo. The story line moves like Legion's mind and the kinetic rendering of the visuals is an appropriate extension of Legion's artistic origins. Readers will want to stick around for what looks to be a wild psychological trip through Legion's mind. Read Full Review

Legion #1 isn't just a good comic for X-fans or newcomers who enjoy the FX adaptation, it's a genuinely great starting point. If you know what mutants are and who Professor X is, then you know as much as you need to rifle through these pages. The setup of the story is solid with plenty of directions to travel and a threat that is as unpredictable as the narrator is unreliable. If the rest of the Legion mini-series lives up to the promise of #1, then there's cause to call for an ongoing. It's a fine start to a very strange sort of story. Read Full Review

Dark and disturbing stuff, but a really good read. Read Full Review

Art duties for a book on Legion can sometimes be tricky, but Wilfredo Torres is up to the task. Legion having so many different power sets will always lead to some spectacular visuals under a steady hand and that is what Torres brings to the table. Everything is sufficiently weird to work. Read Full Review

LEGION #1 kicks off the limited series with plenty of conflict and intrigue, but it's a safe start that doesn't embrace what this series is capable of. Read Full Review

It's fine, but that's about it. Given the character and the creators, you'd expect something that really sets itself apart, but it's instead about as average as can be. Read Full Review

The irony is that "safe and unassuming" is probably the one thing the troubled David Haller would most want out of life. But in the world of drama (whether on television, or in the comic pages), stories thrive at the crossroads of passion and terror. And if they don't have that " then what are we here for? Read Full Review

Legion is a perfectly decent introduction to the character, which is likely what Marvel was striving for with this new series. This issue downplays the character's back-story and histroy with the X-Men in favor of crafting a a digestible conflict between David Haller and his own dark side. Unfortunately, the trade-off is that the book lacks that special, weird flavor that defines the best Legion stories. Read Full Review

Final Verdict: 6.5 " "Legion" #1 is a well made book, and a good introduction to the character, but is missing some of the weirdness one might want out of the title. Read Full Review

The story, the art, it all feels rather conservative in a way and falls short of the challenging and groundbreaking work we've seen in live action. This is a case where the spin-off adaptation is better than the original. While this series may improve as it moves along this first issue doesn't quite have a hook to get me excited to see what comes next. For those checking this out due to the television show, I don't see what would get them to stick around. There was a lot of potential in a new series, unfortunately that's not tapped here at all. Read Full Review

This book essentially works as a stop-gap for fans of the show, as we're thrust into the dark and twisted world David Haller, Read Full Review

The biggest criticism I can levy against Legion #1 is that it is perfectly serviceable in terms of being a modern X-Men comic book, but ultimately disappointing in terms of an exploration of mental health through the aesthetics of psychedelia. By grounding itself in such literal and unassuming settings, Milligan and Torres limit what their narrative can do in terms of comic book storytelling. With such vast minds at its disposal both on and behind the page, let's hope that Legion breaks free from its self-imposed limits. Read Full Review

While it's not technically a poorly put together issue, Legion #1 is disappointing in how bland it is. Whether you're a longtime fan, coming from the TV show, or a new X-Men reader, this introductory issue likely isn't what you wanted from a David Haller story. Read Full Review

Peter Milligan... you fucked it all up.

David Haller and his nemesis personality Lord Trauma race each other to New York and celebrity psychologist Hannah Jones. This issue is plagued by a shortage of passion and creativity. It feels like a B-minus performance from a pair of 19-year-olds with a "tell a story about multiple personalities" assignment early on in a freshman-level creative class. The technical skills are decent, but the material is devoid of interest. The thing of which I am most certain is that Wilfredo Torres's flat no-shadow visual style is an absolutely TERRIBLE choice for a tense psychodrama-slash-horror story.

This is close to a 5/10. If it had had ONE engaging character, ONE compelling mystery, ONE little hint that it was more than a crass "we can earn some bucks slapping any old thing onto the LCS shelves with a Legion title thanks to that new TV show" exercise …
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