It's Spurrier's Legacy we're talking about right? Well I think the art was borderline serviceable, leaning more towards not good rather than good, but still serviceable. With art from Del Mundo, Ward, Rocafort or Foreman the comic would be totally taken to another level, level the writing has totally suggested, but what is is right? It's not like Carey/Gage's Legacy has consistently only had the good artists, hell I'm not even sure Gage had one!
Still, it wasn't a bad read at all and was at the very least a title worth paying attention to. Book had its moments and while being different weren't like this just for the sake of it like many books Marvel publish right now happen to be. And considering it was published during the "dark reign of X" (Bendis/Aaron era) that book can be easily called one of its era's only pinnacles, among Magneto and ANXF.
But in my humble opinion, it still only barely touched on the immense potential Legion has as a character, I didn't like the bending Spurrier put him through for no good reason (why the hell did he have Scottish accent when he grew up in Israel? why all of a sudden he had mentality of mutant activist? why only new sub personalities when there were many established ones? where did they go exactly? etc), but his plots and writing were entertaining and at times even engaging enough to make me want to keep reading. There were highlights, the choice itself of making Legion the POV character of the Legacy title after Xavier died was a pretty brilliant move, but I'd say it still didn't really explore the image and the influence Xavier left on the world. That's where Spurrier was totally losing himself in his own extravaganzas, but with a character like Legion, that would be a given I guess. Regardless, in my opinion this was still a title every X-head has at least to give a try.
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