Legion of Super-Heroes #7 Review

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis / Artists: Stephen Byrne, Ryan Sook, and Wade von Grawbadger / Colorist: Jordie Bellaire / DC Comics If there’s one thing you can say about Brian Michael Bendis, it’s that the man really knows how to pack every inch of a book from inch to inch with material. I would love to see his scripts. And when it comes to Legion of Super-Heroes, the rest of the creative team is drinking the same super-soldier serum that Bendis drinks because every issue of this series is filled from corner to corner with fantastic work. That’s never been most prevalent than in issue #7. In this issue, the Legion of Super-Heroes is dealing with a problem: Leadership. Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl argue with each other about the Legion’s de facto leader Brainiac 5. Up until this point, Brainiac has assumed top command simply because he’s smarter than everyone else. But the leadership is really like a council between Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Brainiac 5. Cosmic Boy was chosen by the United Planets to lead, so he feels like if the responsibility falls on one person, it should be him. 

This is already a pretty stressful thing to navigate, but when you take into consideration that these are teens, super-powered teens at that, then the drama is amplified to another level. This is where Bendis shines. He does well with snarky dialogue and scenes filled with drama. What I like about what he did in this issue in particular is that he chose to have a hearing between the Legionn…