Legion of Super-Heroes: The More Things Change

After their epic battle with the Legion of Super-Villains, both the Legion and their creative team take a break with some smaller stories that shed light on some unseen corners of the 30th Century. First we have a 2 part story where a group of Legionnaires are lost in a limbo-like dimension. Then a reunion, Earth elects a new President, the Legion battles space pirates, the Legion elects a leader, and Timber Wolf fights a planet. Steve Lightle does most of the art with help from Ernie Colon and Keith Giffen. Long-time Legion writer (who returned to the book in 2010) Paul Levitz does the stories. It's a real tribute to Levitz's talent that he can make small stories like an election work. In the Legion's future able candidates are chosen by computers and drafted into running, an interesting futuristic idea that Levitz spices up with some assassination attempts. The whole book is like that, driven more by characters and ideas than cosmic battles. Lightle's art is always a delight, it had the detail and realism of Geroge Perez but also a lot of imagination and energy in his designs. Around this time Levitz and Giffon invented the futuristic alphabet Interlac and artists started slipping all sorts of Interlac writing into the backgrounds. The book does not include a translation guide so I had fun trying to puzzle them out. If you're a long-time Legion fan this is a good buy, great stories and art from the Legion's peak. If you're new to the team this can still be a good read, the smaller quieter stories make it easy to follow along while the previous volume was a bit too crowded.