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Tony Bedard will do a few issues after Mark Waid
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Bringing Pelletier with him????
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"A few issues", huh?
I wonder what that means for the long term.
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Waid's comments:
quote: Reached for comment Friday evening, Waid told Newsarama:
"Since it's been announced, I may as well confirm. Because Barry [Kitson's] moving to Marvel and we've been the Legion team since the relaunch, I can't see doing the book without him.
"The timing of it all means we had to move our plans up a few months, so issue #30 will be our last, and I'm moving on.
"That booming noise you hear is the sound of message board posters around the world whooping in delight. Judging by the internet, I will not be missed."
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quote:Originally posted by Blockade Boy: Bringing Pelletier with him????
Ugh, please. I hope not. Pelletier should stay at Marvel. Put someone like Chris Batista on the book.
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I was the one who asked the Question at DC Nation. I makes me very sad Waid feels this way as this series is what brought me in. I have since gone crazy filling in my collection, but the legion was never accessable before. Even now that I have gone back and bought 100s of legion back issues there really was a horrible run from the late 80s till this run. I really really enjoyed his world and hope they don't abandon it because of a few old timers longing for the past. Even my husband admitted that most of what he dislikes about the current legion is waiting for his favorites to get more screen time. Poor Mr. Waid. I apreciate what you've done. It worked for me.
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Oh and it isn't long term Didio said it was only a few issues and it sounded like Waid's leaving was a bit of a srprise and they were trying to find a way to fill the gap until they can work out a more longterm plan.
I was a pretty regular Negation reader so I have my fingers crossed Bedard will do something interesting.
quote:"That booming noise you hear is the sound of message board posters around the world whooping in delight. Judging by the internet, I will not be missed."
Notoriously hard to please Legion fans and their writers. You know Mark loves the Legion because he was willing to subject himself to this a second time.
Seriously given how divided the LSH fan base has been since about 1990, only a nut or someone with skin as thick as a nut would take this job. I think someone asked Giffen to come back at a panel last year and he just let out a pathetic whine of "no".
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Well, I'm sorry he's leaving, too. I looked forward to the many different subplots/backstories being completed. He raised a lot of ideas about how people are supposed to behave as heroes and what makes a villain, in addition to what our future (perhaps our very near future) might be like. He was building a very detailed 31st century.
I don't know Bedard's work; I just hope we aren't on a carousel of rotating writers and artists now.
quote:Originally posted by wndola1: Oh and it isn't long term Didio said it was only a few issues and it sounded like Waid's leaving was a bit of a srprise and they were trying to find a way to fill the gap until they can work out a more longterm plan.
There was word that Waid was originally scheduled to stay on until #36, but I have no idea if that was accurate or just the rumor mill.
I do hope they find a regular creative team soon. I don't think rotating creators will bode well for the book's sales unless some really big names are involved.
quote:I do hope they find a regular creative team soon. I don't think rotating creators will bode well for the book's sales unless some really big names are involved.
You said it, Miner. What worries me is this emerging pattern with the Legion in the past few years. When the major creative team goes, there's a string of other writers/artists, sales plummet, the magazine gets cancelled, no Legion for a little while. Then a new version of the Legion in a new magazine starting with #1, sixth months until the new premise is established and all origins retold (again, and again, and again). And when the book gets finally good, off goes the creative team, and we are at square one again.
I can't honestly say that I'm sorry to see Mr Waid go, even though I by no means believe this version of the Legion was all bad (there's another version that holds the "all bad" title as far as I'm concerned, but that's another story.)
Mr Bedard proven in Negation that he can handle a gigantic cast of characters and write good stories too. I liked Negation a lot and I recommend it too.
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I can see why Mark wouldn't want to continue without Barry. BK's done such a wonderful job with both the art and absorbing/deflecting the book's critics with grace and dignity. Well done Barry. I'll miss both members of the WaK team.
Yeah I'd love McKeever. Because he knows nothing about the characters, has no real links to the old-school DC fanbase and is known for manga fusion style romance/superhero stuff means his Legion would be quite different. Imagine a Legion Girls comic in the style of his Mary Jane Stuff. (I know Lash would be buying)
(Yes I can see LSH fandom with the knives out, might not want to put your latest exclusive out to slaughter on his first asssignment.) *sigh* LSH is the Verdun of DC assignments.
If he weren't Marvel Exclusive I'd love to see Kirkman write Legion for the same reason. It would be amusing at the very least.
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I think someone asked Giffen to come back at a panel last year and he just let out a pathetic whine of "no".
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