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Well gang, look's like our worst fears are about to come true.
If you watch this Newsarama video interview with Dan Didio, you will see in the background a whiteboard with various messages on it, similar in style to the cryptic messeges seen on Rip Hunter's chalk board.
Along the taglines: "1,000 / 3 = 1" although the / is a division sign I can't get my keyboard to make in explorer.
Anyway, the rub is this: Legion of Three Worlds will be a hat trick.
It'll result in a multi-dimensional merger.
Pardon my Durlan, but that sucks @$$ !!
From: Sumner, ME | Registered: Jul 2003
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Gee, Matt, do you think they'll merge the *entire* roster from all three teams? I sure don't. I imagine they'll pick what they think is the best version of each character and create one new team with a retconned history that now has Black Canary as a founding member.
From: Sumner, ME | Registered: Jul 2003
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It could be an "amalgam" which i think everyone will hate. But I think it'll be 101 ways to kill legionnaires which isn't too much better.
Given what they've said about the series I think it will go something like this.
Final Crisis is "The Day Evil Won" Legion of 3 is "Crisis comes to the Future"
DD's said that there is a break in FC where Superman scours the multiverse for help after the heroes lose. I think Legion 3E is something of the same. I totally expect a slaughter in the first issue with the Action Legion where they need to call the other versions for help.
The slaughter continues and at the end there will be a "Buffet Legion" as PB says. A buffet not chosen by fans but by Geoff Johns who will pick the ones he likes.
From: Canada | Registered: Apr 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: Gee, Matt, do you think they'll merge the *entire* roster from all three teams? I sure don't. I imagine they'll pick what they think is the best version of each character and create one new team with a retconned history that now has Black Canary as a founding member.
Or maybe they'll do a thing where Saturn Girl (for instance) has three sets of separate memories, all of which she can remember and make sense of. I don't know. But it's too early to be pessimistic.
quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: Along the taglines: "1,000 / 3 = 1" although the / is a division sign I can't get my keyboard to make in explorer.
Anyway, the rub is this: Legion of Three Worlds will be a hat trick.
It'll result in a multi-dimensional merger.
i think this conclusion is a bit too rushed! "1,000 / 3 = 1" could just mean that, in the end, we'll only get one legion.
Seriously, I would hate a hat trick. Senseless slaughter is never good. Let there be 52 different Legions, why do we have to kill anybody to make this work.
True rushing to judgement isn't going to do anyone any good, but I'll certainly be disappointed/upset if Legion of 3 worlds becomes Legion Slaughterfest.
Besides, part of what I like about the Legion is how they interact with eachother, I don't want to see preboot Garth with postboot Imra hanging with 3boot Rokk.
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Eh. This is old news, IMO. We found out that Superboy Prime is going to be involved, and that's what he's there for, killing off teen heroes in spectacular and senseless ways.
There's even a thread somewhere around here about what sensational ways they'll find to kill Legionnaires off, and while it is tongue-in-cheek, Dan Didio abso-fragging-lutely loves killing teen heroes, so it's definitely gallows humor.
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Remember all that BS during End of an Era about how the reboot was going to be a "purified" timeline... basically what the original Legion was supposed to be if it hadn't been for all the cosmic beings messing with it?
My prediction is that we'll find out that the reboots are the result of more Time Trapper interference, and that what we'll be left with is the Legion continuity as it was always "supposed to be", with everything from 1958-2008 being revealed as perversions of the "real" Legion timeline. Which will be basically whatever Geoff Johns says it is.
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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You know Didio made sure everyting on that board was put there on purpose. And that's obviously some kind of cryptic shorthand, so it's all promo to get us buzzing.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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So far, I've enjoyed all the Legion stories that Geoff Johns has written. If anyone else was doing this series, I'd be concerned, but at this point I have enough confidence that Mr. Johns will respect and honor Legion tradition and values and do the right thing.
-------------------- "My dance card was getting fuller than a contestant's at a Jandan shurg-off." - Exnihil, The Lost Klordny
From: Frederick, MD | Registered: Aug 2003
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I am wary for sure. I think it could work but I feel sorry for fans of certain Legions. Yes it will wipe away the uniqueness of certain Legions.
It's like Hawkman but on a Legion level.
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I'm expecting the worst.
That way, any surprise will be a pleasant one.
It's like being a pessimist, but you get cool stuff.
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