Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Zodiac's Reign has Ended -- UPDATE!

I dropped Reign after issue #3. I planned on getting #4 but when the time came I realized that I just didn't care and found it wiser to save my money for something else.


The problem I found wasn't that it was too complex of a plot. It's actually quite simple. It seems as though Giffen was just trying to make it seem really complex with many different levels of intrigue. The writing just wasn't good IMHO. The dialogue was corny and unnecesarily ambiguous. And the revelation that Earth was going to be involved di absolutely nothing for me. The kicker was the scene where the priest was downloading porn. Just tasteless and not something I want to read about. After seeing the work Doran put into her art I REALLY wanted to like this series, but it just never caught on with me.

The Heckler is right up there with Ambush Bug, the Subs special, the Lobo Christmas special, etc., IMO as Giffen's funniest stuff! I reccomend it to anyone who loves his humor!

What I wanted was the story to focus on the houses and on the intrigue there. They could have picked any of the houses and stuck with them, or even followed multiple houses.

What I didn't like was the first issue [which was forced on them, as I understand it] was deadly dull and I disliked them going to Earth. I saw it telegraphed early on, and I dreaded it. When it happened I hated that. My interest in the series was a new world with new cultures, not in a bunch of strangers being chased on Earth. So I dropped it then and there. They had jettisoned the world I was interested in, and thus jettisoned my interest in the work as a whole.

the solicitation for #8 does not seem to indicate that it is a final issue. In fact, it actually seems to inimate that it is the begining of a new story arc.

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Does not matter to me though. I dropped after #3, after having only "tried" to read #1.