Legion Season 2 is giving even more love to The First Son of the X-Universe.
Or…complicated dudes.
So where exactly did David Haller come from in the comics?
Lets take a look…
Origin:New Mutantsvolume 1 #26-28.
He gets caught in a terrorist attack, and is the only survivor.
In the process, his powers emerge and he absorbs the mind of the terrorist who commits the crime.
From there, his mind splinters, and each personality is assigned a power.
The Muir Island Saga is the culmination of years of buildup in X-Men comics.
Its comics forever, but whatever.
The Age of Apocalypse is one of the ballsiest comics events of all time.
So he goes back in time to kill Magneto before Magneto can turn evil.
It goes…poorly.
Short version: theres a time loop, Bishop, and David wipes himself from existence.
Read Legion Quest Here.
Return:New Mutantsvol.
3 #1-4
Zeb Wells run ofNew Mutantswas a delight.
Really, you should read the big X-Men books fromMessiah CompleXtoSecondComing.
Not for Legion, he has nothing to do with it until the end.
Just because theyre great.
Mike Carey is the most underrated X-Men writer of all time, and very quietly maybe the third best.
Carey followed this up in the pages ofX-Men Legacyin another great, but less essential story.
It was also the weirdest, sweetest X-Men comic of all time.
When they relaunchedX-Men LegacyfollowingAvengers vs. X-Men,they had Legion deal with human problems.
He struggled to work through his illness.
He fell in love with someone Blindfold, the precog from Joss Whedons run.
Totally normal, right?
It was funny, weird, beautiful, and ultimately heartbreaking.
And it was so good.
