The most recent issue of Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver’s fan-favorite Monkeybrain series Edison Rex is an unexpected twist on one of Silver- and Bronze-Age comics fans’ most beloved conventions: the teen-aged super-team from the future, a la DC Comics’s Legion of Super-Heroes stories.In the story, future versions of some of the world’s greatest super-heroes (and Edison’s old nemeses) show up out of the blue to tell Edison about his influence on their lives and work — but as you’d expect, it isn’t quite as tidy as all that. Is Edison Rex really considered the greatest role model of his generation, centuries into the future? The episode deals with the tricky and fluid nature of legacy in a world where time-travel exists.It’s a bit of incorporating two things that Edison Rex has been doing of late — theme or “tribute” issues that look at trends or creators that have influenced Roberson and Culver’s storytelling, and world-building, creating a complex mythology behind Edison and setting up threats and threads for future storylines. At the same time, it tones down both a bit; this issue isn’t as eccentric and seemingly self-contained as some of the recent theme issues, and while it was dealing with mythology, it steered away from the Eclipse family, who are currently investigating the death of Valiant.
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