There’s a strong artistic line-up with Dave Taylor excelling, and the interesting combination of Bill Sienkiewicz inking Jim Aparo’s pencils, a fusion recognisable as neither of the two artists with strong styles (sample spread left).
#Demonstar 1996 series
The spotlight swivels around according to whose series provides individual episodes, but the writers collaborate for a relatively seamless experience, with many of the same supporting characters recurring.
What they didn’t anticipate were the deniers, who don’t appear here. The mystery of who unleashed the virus on Gotham in the first place is seemingly revealed early.Īfter real world covid it’s far easier to imagine a killer disease running through the community, so Legacy no longer reads as such an outrageous fantasy, and writers Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant and Doug Moench highlight the fears, the political response, and those attempting to take advantage. However, the cure was revealed in the papers of an ancient and very secretive order, and the accompanying documents noted it as being just one of a number of deadly diseases, which is where Legacy picks up. They’re reviewed separately, beginning here.īefore a cure was found, in Contagion many Gotham citizens died of a fast-spreading virus popularly named the Clench. This already thick 1996 paperback covers the core story, while two bulkier paperbacks issued in 20 cast the net wider and continue events involving villains with an agenda. Legacy is a Batman outing from the mid-1990s, and as was common then, takes the city of Gotham as the over-riding focus, and extrapolates events outward into the series of all superheroes operating in Gotham, with Batman taking the lead.