Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Levitz talks Legion

I would love to see Paul set one of his stories in 31st century Istanbul, just to see how Cinar would draw his home city.

I agree Doctor One. I hope Cinar brings some new and exotic to the Legion...seeing Instabul would rock. He's a great artist.

Excited about new members.

I agree Doctor One. I hope Cinar brings some new and exotic to the Legion...seeing Instabul would rock. He's a great artist.

Excited about new members.

Here's an interview at CBR, which has a great page of interior art from Cinar.

It would be great if someone in the know could tell us how to pronounce his name. Is it fairly phonetic?

Amusing in this article that someone (I hope not Levitz) confuses "Lightning Boy" and "Cosmic Lad."

Some interesting tidbits suggesting 1) there's some new dynamics between the 3 founders, 2) Colossal Boy still has a connection to Mars, 3) we can expect to see Officer Erin and/or Officer Cusimano.

I'm not surprised, but it's good to know that Levitz wouldn't have "come back" to the reboot or 3boot Legion, even though he liked aspects of them. What's clear is that Levitz is completely comfortable playing with all of the past stuff, both the recent stuff by Johns, his own prior work, and the ancient history of the Legion. For Levitz, that's a huge resource, not a burden, and he views his responsiblity as a writer to make a Legion with all that history interesting to new readers. I don't know if he will succeed or not, but I think that's the attitude a Legion writer OUGHT to have.

^^^ Judging by the Gim-connection Levitz mentions I'd say it's more likely that it's SP Officer Gigi Cusimano who's making her long-awaited return.

If so, I wonder if that figures into the Legion marriage break-up that I think he hinted at in another interview? That would be unfortunate. This is the first time I've ever liked Yera and Johns really had me rooting for her reunion with Gim in his Action arc.

The "Lightning Boy" and "Cosmic Lad" moments in that interview were jarring. Those couldn't have been Levitz's errors could they?

GiGi was with Dirk for a while, too, wasn't she?

Gah. I know almost nothing about the Action stuff. I've got holes in my personal timeline the size of craters here. [sulk]

Who's being tortured?

And I have gaps too.
Is there a Legion/Action tradepaperback out or something?

Re: the Lightning Boy Cosmic Lad thing. Hey Levitz is getting old...too many darn characters to remember. No biggie.

Gim Allon on Mars? While I love Gigi I am expecting a red head...Char Burrane...the 2nd Starfinger.

I think that's Earth Man

I would guess that Yildiray Cinar is pronounced something like Yildirai Chinar.

If anyone's interested in an audio interview with Mr. Levitz, we talked to him on the most recent episode (#70) of Legion of Substitute Podcasters! You can find the show at http://www.legionofsubstitutepodcasters.com.

Thanks for the interview, Matt (& other Subs).

A few nuggets from the one word questions (not verbatim):

Tyroc? I've gotta figure that out.

Rainbow Girl? I don' really know her well. She seems like fun.

Karate Kid? He's pretty dead.

Proty? I liked Proty. I don't have any immediate plans for him, but I liked Proty.

The Miracle Machine? I think once was enough.

Computo? Been there, done that.

Chemical King? I like Chemical King. I probably shouldn't have killed him. I was enough of a chemistry buff that I actually understood what his power was.

what about Dream Girl? I know Paul used to hate her when we "forced" him to write her as a Legion Leader when we voted her.

Kind of disappointed to hear that Karate Kid is still hated/disliked by Paul.

Chemical King still can be brought back alive...if write smart.

This made me scream **OMG** at the monitor:

I'm a HUGE James Sherman fan. OMG. I am so totally stoked about this. I hope he inks his own and they get one of his old inkers to do him justice. Joe Rubinstein is my first pick and Bob McLeod is my second .... actually either or would work just fine!!

This was used a while back in the JLA adventures way back when. I really love those too. You see that used off and on, here and there but I think it's cool to let the readers see who's featured in that issue. I didn't care for the way it was done in the last series where they would use 2 whole pages at times to show full body shots with others grayed out in the background. It was a waste of precious story telling pages. Just head shots are all that's needed.

Paul said he was quite fond of the character also,when one of the podcasters said he liked Karate Kid.

They also asked what Keith's problem was with Karate Kid,and Paul said... Oh I don't know maybe he had a bad experience with a karate instructer as a child.

Chemical King, Element Lad and White Witch, my favs besides Chameleon Boy. Oh well, I guess we wait and see what happens with everyone and how Paul drives this series..... should be fun!

The LSP interview was great! I stayed up after midnight listening to it. It's just amazing what a smart, funny, insightful and wide-ranging fellow Paul Levitz is. As much as I like Mark Waid and Geoff Johns, I betcha neither of them based a comic book on something like the Ottoman Empire succession process. I particularly like Levitz's insight on the whole "future perfect" question -- namely, that humanity will have to have achieved a golden age status to still be around 1,000 years from now. It's a great point, although I think the Waid/Kitson Legion posits a good alternative -- humanity turns into a species of sheeple, and survives 1,000 into the future by not doing anything interesting. But anyway, Levitz's thoughts make me hopeful that he does have a good story hook for the Earth Man/xenophobia thing.

Neat interview, I finally got around to listening to it. I kinda loathe podcasts, especially with four interviews laughing at various in-jokes among each other, but this had a lot of neat stuff!

James Sherman WOULD be awesome. Would love to have him as permanent Legion artist. Too bad his stint was so brief and so long ago.

Now Keith Giffen's primary reason for taking over BOOSTER GOLD has been revealed--he couldn't resist a title which offered the inherent opportunity of killing Karate Kid an infinite number of times...

The history of this new/old Legion is unclear. Chem could have retired with James Cullen, Laurel Gand, and Reflecto to open a Nine Planets Ice Cream franchise.
Levitz could bring him back if he gets the notion.

Levitz is on FB now. Just lettin ya all know.

That doesn't seem likely, but perhaps illustrating a special issue, such as an Annual or something. That way he could take his sweet time and really knock it out of the park!!