LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: MILLENNIUM #1

Reading Legion Of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1 today, I couldn’t help be struck by similarities between the story of Rose of Rose And Thorn, and that of Moira MacTaggert.

Moira MacTaggert lives her life, dies, then is reincarnated as herself and lives her life all over again. Making changes. But the end, we get the same conclusion, the death of mutants, happening again and again and again. The series is her attempt to try and break out of that cycle of reset, reboot and rebirth.

I mean, she didn’t even know she was a mutant to begin with. She’s always been presented as someone without a power set.

And she has had every conversation possible to imagine in those ten lifetimes of hers… she knows just what everyone is going to do.

Could this storyline have been inspired by Jonathan Hickman’s original plans? Is this what certain DC Comics executives were rather annoyed about when they read House Of X #2? It is certainly not the same… but it does feel very familiar.

Unless of course, we are just whipping something up when there was never anything there…

Written by: Brian Michael Bendis.

Art by: Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Andrea Sorrentino, Andre Araujo, others.
Covers by: Ryan Sook, 
Description: Brought to you by some of comics' greatest talents, this epic story spans the course of 1,000 years and, for the very first time, connects all of DC's future timelines! Starring the unlikeliest of DC heroes as she learns to cope with newfound immortality and roams through the disparate societies of Batman Beyond, Kamandi and Tommy Tomorrow, wrestling with her own inner demons and desperately trying to find her purpose in an ever-changing world. A truly unique take on tomorrow's DC Universe, all leading up to a special launch on the millennium!
Pages: 40.
Price: $4.99.
In stores: Sept. 4.