With Alien Legion, there’s No Such Thing as “Peacekeeping”

The Bospers of Force Nomad return once more to the pages of Alien Legion!

Detailed with providing humanitarian (and all other species!) support to refugees fleeing a civil war on the planet Harkilon, Force Nomad is hoping for a push-over peacekeeping milk. Instead, smugglers are using the refugees as cover and it only takes one itchy trigger finger to turn a diplomatic mission into a SNAFU of galactic proportions!

Uncivil War marks the return of Chuck Dixon and the art genius of Larry Stroman and Carl Potts to the Legion after 15 rammin’ years!

I remember from WAY back in the day when this series was regularly on the shelves, originally published by Marvel/Epic, but at that time I wasn’t too in to anything that wasn’t Marvel capes, and during the 30 years that have passed I never had the pleasure to read some of the original series…. and that to me, is an issue. I read the first issue and felt like I was missing something, that since I didn’t read whats come before, there was much over my head. With this second issue, I get it all a bit more, but still something isn’t quite clicking for me. I feel like I’ve been thrown into a series where I should know the characters already, and since I don’t, I’m playing catch-up, and there feels like a lot of characters.

What is solid is the creative world, with unique aliens, all with their own personalities and quirks that make them stand out from each other. Some of that is a minus, and some speech patterns, or alien slang, I find is taking a bit too long for me to decipher. It’s all a little too much for me to take in, but possibly over the next few issues I’ll get it more and more. I definitely understood what was going on much more by the end of the second issue.

Overall, the series is likely to be much more entertaining, and geared towards, long time fans of the Alien Legion series. For new readers though, this might be a bit too dense to get in to.

Story: Chuck Dixon, Carl Potts Art: Larry Stroman, Carl Potts
Story: 7 Art: 7.75 Overall: 7 Recommendation: Read