Eryk Davis Ester
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It's Official. Giffen and Levitz six issue arc starting with #13.
The new arc features the new DCU version of the Fatal Five:
quote: We've been starting to build this whole set of threads around the idea that the Fatal Five is being reformed. In the New DC logic, the Legion hasn't met the Fatal Five -- there apparently was one in the cosmos, and it's coming back together or it's in danger of coming back together. There's links to that, and in that fashion, it becomes an important bridge to what is going on over the next year as we do a major arc about the new Fatal Five. I'm going to have the great fun of working with Keith [Giffen] on that -- he'll be stepping back in to do a six-issue run to tell that story.
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But the main thing I get from the article is the Legion has never met the Fatal Five here and that is annoying beyond words if I understand that correctly.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Well, it smooths out the why Validus and Tharok are back questions nicely.
If Sarya's death hadn't been referenced in the Annual, I'd suggest maybe she hasn't been Empress yet. But maybe they'll fudge over that anyway.
With no Fatal Five, the deaths of at least Ferro Lad and possibly Invisible Kid couldn't have happened the way they did preboot. Plus Shadow Lass's joining must have happened differently.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Considering like half of L03W was about bringing back Superboy and Impulse, both of whom have since been rebooted, I definitely wouldn't count on that as reliable at all for continuity.
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Just 6 issues? Hope they sell well so he will be asked back. Levitz NEEDS Giffen, I think.
As for the possible retconning out of Fatal 5 continuity, yes that is pretty annoying.
I've just had to face the facts-- history at DC (and the Legion's fistory) are nonexistent. Every Crisis deletes what came before it. The DCnU's time is numbered too.
Eryk Davis Ester
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I'm actually not really bothered by this at all, but I've been pretty much over the pretense of trying to hammer in the round peg of preboot Legion continuity into the square hole of the rest of the DC Universe since the retroboot began.
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Agreed; it's best to just enjoy what you're reading now without trying to make yourself crazy fitting it into a no-longer existent continuity. And don't believe what DC tells us is and isn't in continuity because they can obviously change that at their mad whim.
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You know, I know that, and have made peace with it in other places like Superman and Teen Titans, but for whatever reason it's bothering me. I guess I really am starting to hate the DCnU and the only way I can get over that is if the story is so good, my prior connection with the franchise doesn't matter.
So, no pressure. It has to be the best story in years or I'll hate it.
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^Same. I can always pretend, "Hey, it's an Elseworlds"... Continuity ain't all that important, and the old stories still happened somehow, somewhere.
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Ohhh man...this is maybe the first continuity bollocking in the Legionverse that I really have a problem with.. :\
I agree with the comments that it's best to just concentrate on the stories now and not try to fit everything together in a complex puzzle when it clearly just doesn't fit, but...
It's the scale of it. The Fatal Five are such a huge part of Legion lore. Ferro Lad's death is one of the most classic superhero stories period, and it just feels like sacrilege messing with that kind of stuff for no particular reason.
Things like Shady and Mon-El never having been married...sure, it bugs me, but at the end of the day I can get over it. Such a massive part of Legion history having never existed when there's no reason for them not to have though...I dunno, it rubs me the wrong way. You don't have to be a slave to continuity, but I think you need to respect the cornerstones that a universe is built on, and the Fatal Five is definitely one of the cornerstones of the Legion's particular history.
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I lived through the Threeboot and the Reboot, and even found stuff to love in them.
I never really believed that this was the 'classic' team, thanks to the weird discontinuity in Action and Lo3W and the first year of Levitz's return, and some of the strange characterization hiccups, so I'm not hugely shocked that Paul has given up and just said it's all new again.
Whatever. I'm sure I'll find stuff to like in the future Legion(s), whether or not they have any bearing on the past Legion(s).
Hopefully Paul doesn't feel the need to retell the Universo story again, or bring back Darkseid for another run. Been there, done that, multiple times, and I don't think he's ever gonna top the Universo Project or the Great Darkness Saga.
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