FIRST IMPRESSION: LEGION OF CHAMPIONS

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

LEGION OF CHAMPIONS # 1


Written, Art & Creator by Ricky A Whitney


Review by Frankie Rodriguez 



 FLIPPING THROUGH:

      Okay. Legion of Champions very much tries to be a throwback to the classic comics of old; with hero names that were from the 70s and the beginnings of a formation of a team. We meet All American and All Purpose Man (APM) as they take on Ivan Blood, a vampire from the ... I can't believe I am saying this ... the League of Evil Pimps. I am not kidding. This is not a joke. It is real. After they defeat Ivan, he gets help from ... another villain who helps him get away.

     The two heroes decide that things are too much for just the two of them and decide to form their own team, introducing their third member, Afro American. Afterwards, some villains plot their demise and the heroes have to go to Brazil.


ART:

    Dear God ... I want to first apologize is this review is gonna offend anyone cause I can tell you know, it probably will. The Art goes from down right crap to nearly passable within the the 22 pages of story we get. Why do I say that? First, the coloring is way too heavy with the shadows at first. Second, no one looks proportioned to their size from panel to panel till halfway through.  The face work does get better as well as the coloring but for the love of Primus, there are too many shadows at times. I do like that I see the artist getting better but seriously, the art in this get almost passable if not for the color job in the beginning and the inconsistencies. One minute, APM has an A on his mask. The next, he does not. This happens multiple times. Make up your mind.

WRITING:

    Okay. It was a skeleton of what could have been an average start. There was an overt threat. There was a covert threat. The dialogue, at times, was decent ... for the first few pages. Then it went down hill. The moment the words: The League of Evil Pimps. Take that in for a second. . .

   League of  Evil Pimps.  

*stays quiet for another minute*

    LEAGUE OF EVIL PIMPS!!!

     For the love ... why, in the name of the Lords of Cobalt, would you have a team called League of Evil Pimps? WHY? Besides some of the 70s centric names, the book was obviously not edited. There are grammar mistakes galore. Some conversations seem to miss a sentence or just oddly placed. The word bubbles were hand written and oddly placed. It took me a minute to know who was All American and who was APM. The overall story just feels so bad because of all the mistakes and the plot that is just barely holding on. This was painful to read. Just painful.


OVERALL IMPRESSION:

    While I think the artists has potential, I think he should concentrate on art or writing and really EDIT his work. EDIT. He had the choice to type the word box but decided to have most of it hand written. The coloring ... the coloring is bad but gets better towards the end of the book. But man, the damage has been done. This book had a chance to stand out a little more and fell on the ground! It is hard to read. The names are bad. The characters are bad. The names . .. LEAGUE OF EVIL PIMPS ... are horrible. If this was a parody, it would have showed itself as such but it really didn't. This was one of the worst comics I have read in a long time.  This had potential but fell so short. It is like the creator did not care enough about the work to want to make it look better.

 
 I take no pride or pleasure in this but I have to give Legion of Champions a 1 out of 5.


FREAKIN' LEAGUE OF EVIL PIMPS!! WTH!!!