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Sept 11, 2011.

A Hardcover a year collecting the Levtiz run? I'm down with that.

Yay!

Thanks for posting that-- I'm glad that 'not the end' message, or something similar, at the end of the Great Darkness HC will see follow through!

Hmmm- will this get us all the way through to the Baxter/newsstand split?

Now, if only DC would publish TPBs of everything between Archive 13 and the GDS HC...

Sadly, ML, a lot of that is just not worth reprinting. I just don't see anyone paying money for the Space Circus of Death story or, god help us, the Dr Mayavale issue. Yes, I know, lots of us celebrate that issue as perhaps the nadir of Legion storytelling, so it has a certain notoriety, but would we really shell out 15 bucks for it?

Well, you wouldn't only be getting the Dr. Mayavale issue for your $15. I'd at least like to see the Saturn Girl/Lightning Lad wedding and Earthwar reprinted. And the Reflecto saga... and Brainy's little break with reality.

I wouldn't want to see any of the Jimmy Janes issues reprinted. Nothing against him as an artist but they paired him with horrible inkers until the very end of his run even Jack Abel would have been an improvement.

Not that this would ever happen, because god knows if DC still has the original, uninked pencils, but wouldn't it be interesting to see that work inked by someone, you know, good?

I actually quit reading the Legion because of Jimmy Janes's "art". awful beyond words.

And yet they always managed to print letters from fans praising Jimmy Janes art. Like I said in my earlier post I think it has more to do with the choice of inkers than anything else.

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If you keep saying things like that, Didio is likely to go into a snit and demand that the character be rehabbed and brought back as his parting gift to the DC-verse. Just to prove that he listens to us. (In his own special way.) Is that really what you want, DL?

Tsk.

From Paul's Facebook:

Picked this up this morning and Sweet Christmas that's a big book! The reproduction, like the GDS, is beautiful. The paper makes the colours really pop. Even issues that I thought were monochromatic and dull (eg some of the Omen stuff) really crackle here. Flipping through, its a really fascinating look at the evolution/de-evolution (depending which side of the fence you're on) of Giffen's art. You can really see when the tranformation gets underway and his faces start to "Go Giffen".

Two quibbles:

1) Absolutely no extras.
2) Larry Mahlstedt doesn't get a cover credit when he inks the entire book (I'd also give Swan a Cover credit as he does three issues, but that's me).

I would love to see the Tabloid wedding not just reprinted but also see the Vinnie Coletta inking undone and redone by an inker that would really make the Grell art pop.

Does this mean that Didio is leaving DC? (Please, please, please, oh pretty please let it be true!)

Did they use a different cover for the collection than the one from issue 300 it's solicited with? I was pleasantly surprised when they had a new Giffen cover on last year's GDS collection.

Nope, the front cover is 300 with a different background colour. The back cover is #298 (which happens to be my favourite issue).

#298... oh I love that one as well... it was the first original Legion story I read 1993 after over ten years of no Legion at all in Germany. I was so thrilled back then that the stories I loved as a child (ending with Annual #1) had continued for so long.

#298, featuring the newest Legionnaires back then, really brings back so many memories though I read it over ten years late. Great story, and it was the start of my U.S. comic book collection.

I don't see Ayla or Tenzil on the cover. Poor them - did they decide not to remain on reserve status when they left, unlike Kara, Luornu, Chuck, Jeckie and Val?

At the time, Ayla was gone and her whereabouts were unknown (by her choice). Tenzil was still recovering from his mental illness (he appears in the big group shot at the end of #300 in the visitor's gallery with the Wanderers, Subs, Spider-man, etc.).

Thanks for the info, Dave.

From an in-story perspective, it makes sense. I just find it a bit odd that they wouldn't include these two in the cover's group shot, but I guess they wanted to mirror actual events in the Legion universe as closely as possible.