In the wake of the “Legion Of Superheroes” cancellation LITG’d back here, I can confirm that Tony Bedard is writing a new “L.E.G.I.O.N” series based on the eighties/nineties series.
So I was right when I guessed it a couple of months ago... veryvery, can you confirm now?
One good piece of news that still doesn't take me from seeing Shooter gone from Legion.
From: Brasil | Registered: May 2008
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I dunno, last time I saw L.E.G.I.O.N. I didn't like what I was seeing.
I need Dox, Stealth, Strata, Mrs and Mrs. Bek, Captain Comet, Lady Quark, Phase, hell even Lobo for this to work for me.... I'll certainly try it though.
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Blech. I find the prospect of a L.E.G.I.O.N. title being published while there's no ongoing LSH title set in it's *proper* era not only a bad idea, but insulting.
From: Knoxville, TN | Registered: Jul 2003
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As long as they are not R.E.B.E.L.S. or any crap like that, I'm cool. But I have never read any decent Bedard story so far to see if I'll like it. I'd have called Gerard Jones myself. Or Shooter.
From: Brasil | Registered: May 2008
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yep! this is what he told me! he asked me some questions about the dox family and i about exploded with happiness. he was chilling with tom peyer at ECCC and i think they were talking about LEGION stuff. it was so weird because we'd just bought a run of rebelsto get peyer to sign it. ahhh i'm so glad i can speak now @______@!
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oh and judging by the things he was talking about, i definitely think it will be the old team of dox and stealth, perhaps even lobo? et al, i think the dox family is getting pretty popular right now what with the revamp of Brainiac. i'm SO excited for this, i think bedard is a really good writer, i'm always happy with his stories. i think he's VERY solid and doesn't get the credit he deserves. and i think he's already shown he can write a bitchy, manipulative dox, i cannot wait to see what's basically querl with no holds barred *swoon*
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You said he was talking to Peyer.. but Peyer was the guy who sank L.E.G.I.O.N.!!! Please, veryvery, ask him to talk to Keith Giffen and Gerry Jones instead. These guys know their game! Don't forget to buy the first 3 years of L.E.G.I.O.N. with wonderful Kitson art.
From: Brasil | Registered: May 2008
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I've only read a few issues of L.E.G.I.O.N. I'm slowly accumulating issues as I find them in dollar bins and stuff. I wonder if I'm going to give this new series a try.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: I need Dox, Stealth, Strata, Mrs and Mrs. Bek, Captain Comet, Lady Quark, Phase, hell even Lobo for this to work for me...
The only people I know from that list are Captain Comet (who I used to like back in Secret Society of Super-Villains, but that was *decades* ago...), Lady Quark (who was a really annoying character from the original Crisis, last I recall) and Lobo (who's the most annoying DC character, ever, IMO).
Is that insane pre-Legion-Legion that had some sort of retcon of Tinya from a Bgtzl'n into a Carggite with a soul gem that looked like Mysa's and could phase anyway, or some such nonsense? I remember reading something about that and just wondering how cheap drugs were that year, and if they were sharing them with the dude who decided that Psylocke couldn't just be a telepathic blind mutant supermodel with bionic eyes, but also had to be a ninja telepathic blind mutant supermodel with bionic eyes...
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I have to say the only reason I bought L.E.G.I.O.N. was that it was Legion related.
Just refereshing my memory from the Comic Collector website, I don't think I remember buying beyond issue 20; I didn't realize it even went for 70 issues.
I did like the team at first, and if I remember correctly, Dox was a complete horse's arse, but the dynamic worked, and I also liked the covers (didn't Kevin Maguire do quite a few?).
However, I really don't see myself picking up a new series.
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From: North Carolina | Registered: Feb 2008
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veryvery - Did you get to read the first issues, though? Storywise, they were miles beyond R.E.B.E.L.S. I can see you enjoying the art from the latter series, though, but by then, the group didn't make any sense to me.
Set - As far as I know, during L.E.G.I.O.N. period, Tinya was simply Tinya with amnesia. No soul gem whatsoever. Maybe later in the run?
Arm Fall Off Boy - You probably left a bit after Keith left. And the first covers were done beautifully by Gary Leach. Maguire took the job a bit later.
L.E.G.I.O.N. was probably one of the reasons I looked at the LSH with more attention at that time. So it does have a soft spot for me. And it had Barry Kitson's finest job. And the interaction between Vril Dox and Lobo was genius. One a$$ to another...
From: Brasil | Registered: May 2008
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Bedard is a good writer but I had no interest whatever in the original L.E.G.I.O.N and care even less about its reboot.
If DC is publishing this to assuage Legion fans, they've reached heights of stupidity even I couldn't imagine.
From: Reimagined Trom | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Set: Is that insane pre-Legion-Legion that had some sort of retcon of Tinya from a Bgtzl'n into a Carggite with a soul gem that looked like Mysa's and could phase anyway, or some such nonsense?
Btzglian mother, Carggite father.
quote:Originally posted by Set: I remember reading something about that and just wondering how cheap drugs were that year, and if they were sharing them with the dude who decided that Psylocke couldn't just be a telepathic blind mutant supermodel with bionic eyes, but also had to be a ninja telepathic blind mutant supermodel with bionic eyes...
The bionic eyes stayed with the original body, FTR.
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