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DCU Legacies #1

May 18, 2010: Len Wein Talks "DC Universe: Legacies"

Len Wein and many of the comic book industry's best artists have come together on "DC Universe: Legacies" to put together the history of the DC Universe in the 10-issue miniseries, with issue #1 hitting shelves tomorrow.

Len told Newsarama.com, "I have rarely been as proud of anything as I am of this project. Initially, it was a lot of work and research, but it's been worth every bit of it. And it looks just beautiful."

    "There's a framework for each story. It starts in the present with our protagonist telling us the story before we flash back to see the history," Wein explained. "Those pages are drawn by Scott Kolins in a style you've never seen him use before. It's amazing."

    After Kolins sets up each issue's lead-in, a flashback is drawn by a different artist as the story is told from the point of view of a normal DCU citizen.

    "We see the DCU through the eyes of two characters that grew up together in the Suicide Slums of Metropolis: Paul Lincoln and his best friend Jimmy Mahoney," Wein said. "They start off together in the first issue as petty gangsters who are collecting money for one of the old characters named Mike Moran, who appeared in one of the early Crimson Avenger stories. By the end of the first issue, Paul is deciding that the life of crime isn't what he wants, and Jimmy decide to stick with it because it's the easy way to make a living. So they make very different choices, and we follow them through their lives through the 10 issues."

Read the complete article at Newsarama.com.

Order "DC Universe: Legacies #1" online from TFAW.com.



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