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I'm excited personally. While Jim was THE guy back in the day he's always been a progressive writer. It will be interesting to see which direction he is taking this. And I love Francis' work.
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Crap! Just when I'd resolved to be all cynical and curmudgeonly about all things Legion...
YAY! JIM SHOOTER IS WRITING THE LEGION AGAIN!
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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I really like how he talked about characters becoming his favorite whenever he was writing them. It sounds like he'll at least have some individual personalities in mind when writing.
Interesting that rebooting was on the table. It sounds like that will always be an option. I wonder what about the threeboot Mr. Shooter considers to be a "good foundation." But, perhaps it's better that I don't know the details, so my disagreements with the writer are delayed as much as possible.
Another year-spanning arc? Well, I hope it's at least a good one.
From: Portland, Oregon | Registered: Jul 2003
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<<< Really excited about this. I must admit, I'm very newschool...just to give y'all an idea of how new, I didn't get into the Legion until their Zero Hour reboot. With that said, I'm not familiar with Shooter's Legion and I'm not familiar with him as a writer in general. But even with that said, I'm still excited because this shows a commitment by DC to the Legion. Shooter sounds like he has some big things planned...it remains to be seen whether these things will be great, but it's good that there are things in the works to take this book to another level in the anniversary year...I just hope they succeed in doing it.
I'm also glad Shooter decided not to reboot. I'd rather see him try and creatively and organically remedy the things that aren't working in the current run than have to read more origin stories. Maybe if the Legion had a ton of continuity right now, but the series is still pretty new.
The new sketches by Francis are great! His art really makes the characters pop. I can't wait to pick up the new team's first issue.
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so glad this was finally announced! I'm really confident that Jim will knock this out of the ball park. I think the easy road would have been to reboot, but a "real" writer can take what he's given and turn it into gold. Long live the Legion
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I have to say that I am not terribly excited about Jim Shooter writing the Legion. (plus his write up of the characters seemed too obsessed with sex. Hopefully he is past that now)
Hopefully by not having any expectations, I'll be pleasantly surprized.
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So, I see Mort's little whippersnapper is back again.
Ok, I'll give him one more chance.
Francis, you must be thrilled and Jim seems thrilled with you, too! Congratulations and best of luck!
From: Reimagined Trom | Registered: Jul 2003
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Shooter's never been one to reboot. I get the impression that he's an old school creator that tried to work within the framework of past continuity. Some of the writers these days tend to throw everything out every 6 months.
In fact I think I'd lose respect for him if he didn't try to work with what's there. Much of the acrimony from his time as EiC of Marvel seems to be his insistence that creators work within the 'established rules' as interpreted by him. I think people tolerate or even admire demanding people but not hypocrisy.
I can't say I'm a big JS fan. Most of his major work was before my comic reading time, I think the only Marvel work of I've read is Secret Wars, but I'm excited because he and Francis seem to be bubbling with energy over this project.
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Jim Shooter back on the Legion in time for the 50th Anniversary is absolutely perfect.
And best of all, he can reintroduce Condo!!!!!
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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well, it seems most of Legion World is happy.
but here's the real question: will the rest of the DC buying public give a hoot? after all even the much despised(not my opinion, but examples abound on various message boards) Waid stuff started off in the low 60s and then dropped. which I imagine, was a combination of LSH fans not liking it, and Waid fans just not liking the LSH.
can Shooter please the core(the current 30,000 +) and bring in all those folks(at least several thousand) that just don't dig LSH?
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Honestly, at this point an announcement that Shooter is taking over the title is about the only thing that could get me excited about the future of the Legion.
Ditto.
But I *am* excited now. Am running over to read the Newsarama article ASAP.
This could really be something special.
Dr. One: Shooter's written a tremendous amount of stuff, but a good example of how he sees comics is to check out the Valiant line of comic books in the 1990's, many of which were suberb.
Update---okay, read the article. Even more excited. Shooter seems to have a lot of energy and a clear sense of what the Legion means.
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From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I'm more apprehensive than anything else. But nine times out of ten that's how I feel when I'm unfamiliar with a writer before they take over a book. And that's what I am with Shooter-- unfamiliar.
Sure, I've read some really interesting stuff about the history of his tenure at Marvel and, of course, I know about his runs on Legion, but I can't think of anything I've ever read written specifically by him. And, to be honest, it holds little appeal to me to go back and check it out because that was an age of different comics and it's one that I'm not especially interested in.
But if they're good stories-- or even just decent ones-- and it generates excitement about the threeboot, I'm behind it. Because I'm behind the threeboot in general. I'm glad we're not throwing it out, and I'm interested to see where Shooter takes the Legion for their anniversary.
My only real fear is that this will be like when Bilson and Demeo took over the Flash. Sure, it was kind of a shoddy premise to begin with (Bart was so not ready) but, well, y'know... I'd hate to see that again with characters I love. Just... no thanks.
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From: Sunny Cali-- er, Planet Earth? | Registered: Jun 2005
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There's only one way to prove your fears wrong Cali (when the issues come out of course), but I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this, and I felt exactly the same way you did when Bilson & Demeo took over Flash.
The thing is (I've read Shooter's stories), he understands things like sticking to established continuity & characterization while leaving room for things to grow organically in a new direction, as well as how to pace a comic book story to gain maximum excitement. Whereas the guys who took over Flash where really TV writers brought from outside the medium because they had experience writing a Barry Allen Flash TV show years after Barry died in the comics. What I mean is, he's a master of the comic book medium, so in terms of story-telling quality, it should be pretty good.
He's definately a forward-looking writer, which can help ease the fears of the fans of the threeboot Legion a bit I think (which to be honest, I am not).
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