Originally Posted by
Lee Stone
I'm right there with you.
I'm sure Bendis is doing the Legion because he loved them (or says he did, anyway), or is afraid of being typecast as the go-to guy for Tarantino/Sopranos styles of comics.
But he has a strength- He's really, really good with street level heroes and building a criminal world around them.
He needs to stop fighting that and embrace it.
Whenever I thought of urban street-level heroes, I would usually think of DC first, before Marvel.
Granted, Dennis O'Neil did raise the bar for Daredevil, Power Man/Iron Fist, Moon Knight and Spider-Woman in the '80s.
But Marvel's characters always seem to have a power edge.
DC's Black Lightning and Black Canary would fit the mold of typical Marvel street characters. Street fighting abilities with a 'gimmick' power to visualize them or set them apart.
DC, however, also has Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Batwoman, Green Arrow, Question, Huntress, Manhunter, Onyx, Katana, Shiva, Red Arrow/Arsenal, Bronze Tiger, Richard Dragon, Wildcat and a few I'm probably forgetting.
The Bendis Legion just doesn't connect narratively with the original. So there is no real reason for a Legion fan to read it.
It's basically a long-running Elseworlds.