A promising start to a new set of X-men Legends stories, now focusing on Bishop. This time he is from yet another dystopian future, where the name of the X-men is kin to gods and is being used in vain to carry out oppression against their fellow mutants. The detailed world-building is unclear.
Bishop is off on a new/old adventure, telling readers about this other future and his backstory. The backstory is fascinating while blending several elements to tell a political allegory that it doesn’t quite know what it’s pulling from.
The art is unpolished and blurry. It’s not bad and does evoke that 90’s style aesthetic well. But the angles and positions of certain characters in a given panel look awkward. Without additional queues, it wasn’t easy to differentiate characters, especially once Bishop got into the story.
Bishop is a fantastic character and giving him the story is a great move that falls a bit flat when it tells a rather unoriginal tale of the oppressed becoming oppressors and his role in all of that. It’s certainly interesting. And it is nice to see a non-Krakoa X-men story. Perhaps as we get into Bishop’s tale, something new and exciting will pop up. To have his co-creator return to tell another facet of Bishop’s story that promises to reveal the details of his time travel mission is intriguing and promising.
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