Legion series premiere TV billboards...

There's nothing like an explosive ad creative to help start the week with a bang, and the key art for FX's new X-Men TV project, Legion, is certainly psychedelically mind-bending stuff.

In the TV show Downtown Abbey's Dan Stevens plays 'David Haller', a person diagnosed with schizophrenia from a young age and who has been a patient at various psychiatric facilities since, until he realises there may be more to his multiple personalities than he thought.

The original comic book character first appeared in New Mutants #25 in the mid-eighties and was the son of 'Professor Charles Xavier', leader of the mutant X-Men, a super-team gifted with extraordinary abilities but feared and hated because of their remarkable differences.

Created by iconic X-Men writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz, 'Legion' manifested multiple independent personalities each with different mutant power specialities, like pyrokinesis, telepathy and telekinesis.

It'll be interesting to see what elements of his comic book origins this new FX show will retain and how influenced the episodic series will be by the preceding X-Men movies that have established Marvel's merry mutants in most of the public's consciousness.

These trippy landscape billboards were first spotted along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip on January 14, and then later along Olympic Boulevard on January 21, 2017, along with the giant hand-painted ad wallscape photographed high over Hollywood & Vine.

Be sure to also check out these other billboards for fantasy horror movie Legion from 2010, plus for another head-bursting ad creative you should also take a look at this Helix season one billboard from 2014.

Fans of the X-Men cinematic universe can also enjoy these X-Men movie billboards, these fun Deadpool movie billboards and these solo Wolverine movie billboards.

This vibrant billboard will absolutely wake you up on your morning commute to another busy work week, so fingers crossed the show itself isn't a big snooze (but by the looks of things it won't be).

UPDATED: Here's also an Emmy consideration billboard for the show's mind-bending debut season spied along Olympic Boulevard on May 28, 2017.

Legion received rave reviews for approaching the comic book genre and especially the X-Men franchise in a whole new way, so let's see if the series will be rewarded for its daring approach.