DC x Sonic the Hedgehog: Metal Legion #2 // Review
The Legion of Doom headquarters is abuzz with frustration. Just about everyone but Lex Luthor seems to think that working with Dr. Eggman is a bad idea. Nevertheless, Mr. Luthor has a plan and it’s really just a matter of everyone playing their part and everything will go well...probably. This IS a plan involving multiple different people from two different worlds. What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone involved is about to find out in DC x Sonic the Hedgehog: Metal Legion #2. Writer Ian Flynn’s five-part series continues with artist Adam Bryce Thomas and colorist Matt Herms.
Catwoman is hanging out with Dr. Eggman in Gametropolis. Eggman feels as though he’s got the upper hand on Luthor and the Legion. Catwoman seems to have done quite a job of picking the winner in a potential conflict...until it turns out that she’s seen meeting-up with Rouge in Gotham City...discussing matters that pertain to Rouge’s meeting with Luthor in Metropolis. Everyone seems to be trying to take advantage of everyone else. And yet...there’s every possibility that SOMEONE has the upper hand? Time will tell as the heroes close-in for the attack on the villains.
Flynn works some degree of magic with simple complexities in a pair of over-simplified hero-versus-villains superhero worlds. The good versus evil archetype seems to work much better in the world of a video game than it does in a world that's built on shades of sophistication that have played out over the course of the better part of a century in the comic books. Flynn it is definitely channeling an old Super Friends-style energy to the page that feels like it could be fun as the series progresses, but it’s all very sill in its own way.
Thomas and herms find a nice fusion between a world that was born in 16-bits on CRT screens all over the world back in the early 1990s and a world born on cheap newsprint back in the late 1930s. The contrast and styles really shouldn't make any kind of sense together at all. However, it feels like the two are sharing the space quite well. Some of the realism of the design for the DC universe. It is amped up a bit in order to create a greater contrast that can facilitate this dialytic fusion between the two worlds.
The collaboration continues to be fun. Sonic would have been inspired by many of the same things that helped to inspire the DC universe over the years. So the two universes are very compatible. However, the oversimplification of good versus evil feels less than engaging beyond the initials, superficial fund of the twists and turns in the plot. And there are far too many characters in the ensemble to really be all that satisfying to anyone who isn't necessarily a big fan of Lex Luthor. He does appear to be the center of this particular issue. Although Eggman seems pretty prominent as well.
