razzatazz's Legion of Super-Heroes #1 - Renegade World review

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    Young enough to fake it

    I come at this series never really having read it before except for an issue here or there.  Of course as a DC comics fan it is hard not to know something about the Legion as they show up in the modern day occasionally, but really this relaunch feels very much like the continuation of a previous series.  Some aspects are not as hard to figure out, for instance there is a raid on a planet which is well set up enough, but there are other parts which go on a bit of a tangent about previous events.  Obviously this is one of the series which is using the new 52 as a change in numbering only without much change in continuity and I can appreciate that because it works elsewhere, but it doesn’t work as well here as the main characters are introduced in a clunky manner and the story on the planet seems a little forced.  It is an all right start, but I don’t see this picking up a lot of new fans with the format it has chosen.  

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