2.5 starsLegacies is DC's answer to Marvels...only not as good.Like Marvels, DC's history is told through the eyes of an everyman. Instead of a photographer, though, he's a cop. In a way it's sort of interesting, because it hits all of the major events in the DC universe from beginning to...well, not end, but to The OMAC Project.Unfortunately, it's also a clunky read. Instead of reading a flowing narrative about how the superhuman events were interwoven into this guy's life, you get jerky starts...

Basically, it's a recap of the continuity world of DC Comics as told by one guy, whom you've never seen before, but was apparently at every big thing that went down for the last eighty years. I would only recommend this book for someone who has just gotten into comics and has no idea what events are being referred to in the books they're reading.

I was reading Lagacies this week and when I finished I read Mr. Wein passed away... How much joy he gave me is Priceless and immeasurable. And this book was good but the Snapshot Stories were something to behold. Thank you sir!!!

Absolutely not as good as Marvel's "Marvels", but this "guided tour" of DC Universe main events seen with the eyes of everyday "average joe" photographer cop Paul Lincoln is still a nice read for old and new fans of cheesy caped superheroes.And the artists involved are just an army of really good ones.Not bad.

I finally got around to reading something really cool.DCU Legacies is a 10 issue series retelling the modern history of the DC Universe through the eyes of one man. But it's really a hallmark card to the various and diverse characters, themes and genres that DC has dabbled in over the last 70 years or so.The story begins in the dirty thirties with one little kid meeting his first "mystery man" and how shortly thereafter he decides to walk the straight and narrow in life. He also begins a life-lo...

Personally I really enjoyed this, a journey through DC's long history. A bit simplistic? Yep. The framing story that links all the major events just a little too pat? Probably. But for all that, it's heart is in the right place and I enjoyed wandering down memory lane. Most major DC events are covered in a sort of 'greatest hits' format, and I like the nice touch of having artists from that era draw those stories most identified with them (80's Perez for example).It's nice, uncomplicated read th...

Great retelling of the major events in the DC history. I loved the way Wein incorporated everything, even the weird multiverse stuff. I wish I'd read this sooner, when I was trying to figure out the continuity in all this. I didn't love the way it ended, but I guess it couldn't have ended any other way.The end snapshots were disjointed and not very entertaining for me personally. Except that Darkseid, as always, is awesome.

Solid recap of the 70 year continuity (or what it's become over time with the many reboots and revamps since 1985), with no real surprises, honestly. The weakest part was simply showing how often since the Crisis that DC has relied on "deaths" or serious injuries to characters to drive "event" stories. Lumped all together, it reads like something took the fun and morality out of comics, threw in blood and uber-violence, and hit frappe.

Other reviewers have already stated the obvious, but I really did enjoy this book.

Len wein weaves together characters from several eras of DC comics history . This story puts together a history of the DC universe through the eyes of one character and follows him a he ages .

Even though DC recently rebooted their entire super hero line this compilation of the 10 issue series (including the backup stories from each issue) is in many ways a loving history of their line. Beginning in the depression laden late 1930s up to the early 21st Century narrator Paul Lincoln talks about the history of those who were first called mystery men and the effect it had on his life.Writer Len Wein is an old DC Comics hand, and I think it was an editorial decision by Mike Carlin and Joey...

Framed as a DC version of Marvel's excellent Marvels, there's no shortage of talent on this book, from writer Len Wein through to a roster of artists that would be the envy of any company: Kuberts ndy and Joe; Dave Gibbons; Walt Simonson; Keith Giffen; Jerry Ordway; Dan Jurgens; Brian Bolland; Frank Quitely; Bill Sienkiewicz... the list just goes on and on. And in the end, it's that talent that save the book because, really, it's really just not that good. DC has great characters and no mistake:...

A loving tribute to DC Comics.

Actual rating: 4.75 stars.I liked this a lot. It was a quick run-through of a lot of DC continuity seen through the eyes of an "average joe". I don't really get why this is rated so low.

This was a great graphic novel that re-told some of the major events from the DC Comics Universe from the start of the Golden Age with the Justice Society of America up to the 21st century. These stories are told from the perspective of retired police detective Paul Lincoln (who looks a lot like Paul Newman) and he goes over his collection of newspaper headlines and clippings from the past. It reminded me a bit of Kurt Busiek's 'Marvels' which told the history of Marvel Comics through the point

I'd call this a flawed but interesting retelling of DC Universe history.There's some great artwork here, from a variety of artists, so I'd say the book is worth reading just for that.The overall retelling of several major DCU events is pretty dry though. Not much in the way of additional insight or perspective is added, in most cases.If you're expecting too much out of this, you'll be disappointed. But if you're just looking for a lot of really nice art with a story that ties it together adequat...

I'm still don't know much about the DC universe because since I was a kid I only read Marvel stuff, but this story is a great read, and helped me to know the history and characters of the DC universe.

Marvel had a lot of success with the Busiek/Ross series Marvels, so DC answered with their own retrospective look at their comics universe with this book, Legacies. (There's an unwritten rule that says that whatever one of the companies does that's successful has to be copied by the other soon thereafter.) Legacies is well scripted by Wein, and I don't doubt that he did just what they told him to do, but I didn't like it nearly as well as Marvels. It's told from the perspective of a young boy wh...

This is a great whirlwind tour of the DC Universe... Len Wein does a good job of hitting the high point of DC continuity, with a heavy focus on the publisher's crossover events. The framing story is decent, but Scott Kolins' art for those segments is a limiting factor. The real stars of this book are the artists. The likes of Joe Kubert, Frank Quitely, and Bill Sincewicz make this a very enjoyable read, despite the somewhat choppy nature of the book.The end result; a nice overview of the DCU as

Too much of the book becomes events that the central character was never present for, so it kind of loses it's purpose. I liked it, but it focuses for almost half of it's run on events from the past 20 years. That's poorly balanced.Despite the pacing issues, I enjoyed it, and I thought it was a great idea to basically take a tour of the DCU, despite that it was all re-written a few months later.