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Gotta say, i hope he isn't gone. This isn't the legion i wanted to read about, but if its all i am gonna get, its a damn site better than what came before.
Be nice if we got some Villians in the book, though.
-------------------- Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
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This is what I was afraid of. With all the Final Crisis stuff you don't get JIM SHOOTER to write a swan song for a low selling series.
No you COMMIT to JIM SHOOTER and treat him like a god. I love Geoff John's Action Legion as much as the next guy but if they knew they were going to scratch the current Legion...they shouldn't have offered to Jim. They should've offered the Action Legion to him once Final Crisis was done.
From: Tampa | Registered: Mar 2004
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editorial must have finally decided that Johns' direction/Legion was the way to go, and Shooter, understandably so, was pissed and bailed. didn't DC always say that this WaK legion was the legion for this Earth? they decided to listen to the sales and the blogs and go for Johns' take. why should Shooter stay with a sinking ship that Waid comandeered into the iceberg?
-------------------- Gorilla Nebula
From: san francisco | Registered: Jul 2003
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Whichever way, it sucks. We come full circle in 50 years, back to being a supporting act in Action. I really hope DC lives up to its promise of letting Shooter do at least a year before giving the series the ax. But if the LitG rumor is true, it sounds like that may not be the case.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Karma ain't all it's cracked up to be. Shooter is no saint, for sure. I've reached a point in my life where I've made enough mistakes that I hope those to who I've been unkind will let it pass, and try to do the same for others. Shooter participating in the Legion's 50th anniversary year has nothing to do with old Marvel politics, and everything to do with honoring the innocent exuberance of a 13 year old boy who got his dream job, and contributed many classic elements to this thing we know as the Legion. Come on, Stealth, he did create that badass villian for the ages, Emerald Empress, who you have a bit of fondness for. Can you give him just a little bit of love?
-------------------- No regrets, Coyote.
From: Missouri | Registered: Oct 2003
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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I really hope that this isn't true, but, given the luck the Legion franchise has, it probably is...
Shooter has single-handedly saved the threeboot Legion and made them feel like Legionnaires again, and whoever came up with the Action Legion has failed to do so, IMO, devolving into schmaltzy nostalgia and feel-good buzz-words and catch-phrases rather than presenting actual characters.
I could give a rat's butt about what Shooter has done in the past. He's doing good work *here.*
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If Shooter goes and that Action version of a 20 year dead Legion is superimposed I'm going to quit the book - the Powers That Be have no interest in what I imagine the majority of readers want (quality workmanship, new ideas, the unexpected) just in pleasing the loud minority that are never happy with anything but their own 'golden age'. Blecch, stagnation within a creative medium should be hangable offence IMO!
-------------------- "Tempus Fugitive" the final part of the Adventures of Dream Boy series, set in the Three-Boot Universe. Read it only in the Bits o' Legionnaire Business Forum.
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