Topic: How do you plan on reacting to the Fourth Boot?
Eryk Davis Ester
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Well... I intend to latch on to the slightest evidence that it may be restoring those aspects of the Legion that make it so appealing to me, become way too emotionally invested in it turning out to be good, hold on to that emotional investment way too long after the book turns out to be yet stinking crapola modern-day DC product with the rationalization that at least it's not got some of things wrong with it that the last version of the team had, before finally becoming disenchanted with the whole thing.
You know... pretty much the way I've reacted to the last five or six Legion relaunches.
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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I'm going to count how many issues until they face a big alien invasion. That's gonna maybe, you know, try to destroy the Earth. And all seems lost.
From: Douglasville, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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I will buy it, read it, and review it on Legion Abstract. I will try to figure out what the interesting aspects of it are. I'll try to look for things in the art that I might miss if I didn't consciously look for them. I'll try to isolate what, if anything, the comic book adds to the half-century-plus of Legion lore that's accumulated. I'll put it back in its bag and put it on top of the cupboard with my other recent Legion comics. I'll check in here and other places online to see what other people think of it, and if they noticed anything I missed.
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Curl up and have a good cry? Stomp my feet in impotent mock outrage? Rail at the heavens and call a pox upon the house of Dan Didio? Furtively buy the first few issues anyway, no matter how loudly I protest that I won't?
Probably, yeah.
I might rend some clothes and gnash some teeth, too. But only if someone's watching. Being a drama queen isn't terribly fulfilling without an audience.
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aw, come on, we all know we'd buy it, pretend to hate it because it doesn't match the perfect (and different for everyone) vision of what the Legion should be in our heads, slag it rotten on here, remember the good old days of the 3boot and the great times they had with Supergirl, and then think it was actually quite good when the disaster that is the 5boot comes out... which we'd also buy and secretly love.
From: Kent | Registered: Jan 2004
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Each time the Legion reboots, it has a harder time appealing to me, whether that is fair or not. The threeboot was especially dissapointing. *If* there was a fourthboot, I certainly have no intentions of giving the book a clean-slate. It would have things against it already, because I'd so rather DC give us the original Legion.
Except I think this time I'll be louder and more vicious in my critiques. I was too pleasant during the threeboot
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Well... I intend to latch on to the slightest evidence that it may be restoring those aspects of the Legion that make it so appealing to me, become way too emotionally invested in it turning out to be good, hold on to that emotional investment way too long after the book turns out to be yet stinking crapola modern-day DC product with the rationalization that at least it's not got some of things wrong with it that the last version of the team had, before finally becoming disenchanted with the whole thing.
You know... pretty much the way I've reacted to the last five or six Legion relaunches.
PS - Eryk pretty much summed up what I consider the large fan reaction to the threeboot.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Eryk Davis Ester
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The cycle seems to be getting much smaller for me with each new continuity. It only took me about three issues of Johns's version to go from "Hey, awesome! He's brought back the classic Legion!" to "Wildfire is Red Tornado!?!? What kind of crap is this!?!?!"
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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I'm going to demand more nudity, like I've done with all the other 'boots!
From: elizabeth,nj | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: Except I think this time I'll be louder and more vicious in my critiques. I was too pleasant during the threeboot.
I would have been more vicious, but Barry Kitson is a classy guy and I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
Registered: Aug 2006
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I'll be a devoted consumer, and buy it even if I don't really like it. I'll hope that Dream Girl will be depicted as the awesome character I love, not the tacky over the hill version or the ditzy narcoleptic version or the dead version.
And I'll hope for great depictions of the rest of the characters too.
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