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Tony Bedard will do a few issues after Mark Waid

Bringing Pelletier with him????

"A few issues", huh?

I wonder what that means for the long term.

Waid's comments:

Ugh, please. I hope not. Pelletier should stay at Marvel. Put someone like Chris Batista on the book.

What's the point in "whooping"? Damage is done now...

I was the one who asked the Question at DC Nation. I makes me very sad Waid feels this way as this series is what brought me in. I have since gone crazy filling in my collection, but the legion was never accessable before. Even now that I have gone back and bought 100s of legion back issues there really was a horrible run from the late 80s till this run. I really really enjoyed his world and hope they don't abandon it because of a few old timers longing for the past. Even my husband admitted that most of what he dislikes about the current legion is waiting for his favorites to get more screen time. Poor Mr. Waid. I apreciate what you've done. It worked for me.

****BTW I will be the girl in the Interlac St Patrick's day Day shirt tomorrow.****

Oh and it isn't long term Didio said it was only a few issues and it sounded like Waid's leaving was a bit of a srprise and they were trying to find a way to fill the gap until they can work out a more longterm plan.

I was a pretty regular Negation reader so I have my fingers crossed Bedard will do something interesting.

Notoriously hard to please Legion fans and their writers. You know Mark loves the Legion because he was willing to subject himself to this a second time.

Seriously given how divided the LSH fan base has been since about 1990, only a nut or someone with skin as thick as a nut would take this job. I think someone asked Giffen to come back at a panel last year and he just let out a pathetic whine of "no".

Well, I'm sorry he's leaving, too. I looked forward to the many different subplots/backstories being completed. He raised a lot of ideas about how people are supposed to behave as heroes and what makes a villain, in addition to what our future (perhaps our very near future) might be like. He was building a very detailed 31st century.

I don't know Bedard's work; I just hope we aren't on a carousel of rotating writers and artists now.

See if you can get your hands on a cheap negation trade. It was a vedry good series.

There was word that Waid was originally scheduled to stay on until #36, but I have no idea if that was accurate or just the rumor mill.

I do hope they find a regular creative team soon. I don't think rotating creators will bode well for the book's sales unless some really big names are involved.

I love Waid's run on the book. I'm sorry to see him go, but I think Bedard is the right guy for the job. Either that or McKeever.

-N

Outdoor Miner said
You said it, Miner. What worries me is this emerging pattern with the Legion in the past few years. When the major creative team goes, there's a string of other writers/artists, sales plummet, the magazine gets cancelled, no Legion for a little while.
Then a new version of the Legion in a new magazine starting with #1, sixth months until the new premise is established and all origins retold (again, and again, and again).
And when the book gets finally good, off goes the creative team, and we are at square one again.

I can't honestly say that I'm sorry to see Mr Waid go, even though I by no means believe this version of the Legion was all bad (there's another version that holds the "all bad" title as far as I'm concerned, but that's another story.)

Mr Bedard proven in Negation that he can handle a gigantic cast of characters and write good stories too. I liked Negation a lot and I recommend it too.

I can see why Mark wouldn't want to continue without Barry. BK's done such a wonderful job with both the art and absorbing/deflecting the book's critics with grace and dignity. Well done Barry. I'll miss both members of the WaK team.


Yeah I'd love McKeever. Because he knows nothing about the characters, has no real links to the old-school DC fanbase and is known for manga fusion style romance/superhero stuff means his Legion would be quite different. Imagine a Legion Girls comic in the style of his Mary Jane Stuff. (I know Lash would be buying)

(Yes I can see LSH fandom with the knives out, might not want to put your latest exclusive out to slaughter on his first asssignment.) *sigh* LSH is the Verdun of DC assignments.

If he weren't Marvel Exclusive I'd love to see Kirkman write Legion for the same reason. It would be amusing at the very least.

I don't know Bedard's work but I wish him luck. Ditto whoever comes after him.

Do we know for certain there is *not* another permanent creative team waiting in the wings?

As long as it isn't the Fort Zinderneuf.

I like Negation so this might be a good chance for a writer like this to get the legion out into space and fighting some serious nasty's, rather than the "Earth gets invaded" stuff.

But i am sorry to see waid go, he loves the legion and has come back twice to give it a go. A lot of the concepts he has introduced are interesting and I would have liked to see where he could have taken them.

Shame "the internet" seems to be such a negative influence on creators.

Refresh my memory. When was Waid's last run(s) on the Legion?


I've been a pretty strong critic of the writing on this book, but I didn't want to see Waid leave. I think he did a lot of good for the Legion and just needed more time to iron out the wrinkles. I also would've liked to see less of the big 3, Brainy, Cos, and Imra, and see more of the rest of the crew. When was the last time Colossal Boy, Projectra, Triplicate Girl, or any number of others got any decent screen time for instance?

I too am afraid this is the beginning of the end of the Legion's latest boot. I predict an endless parade of creators trampling through the book, accompanied by falling sales and ultimate cancellation. Woe is me.

Well, DC seems to be planning to make the Legion more visible in the main DCU, and 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the Legion's first appearance.
So I guess it's safe to say that it won't be cancelled especially if they decide to give the book to big name writers/artists permanently or at least as permanently as anything is in comics nowadays.
Bedard is a good writer. I hope they'll get a good artist too.

Waid was the editor on the first few issues of the 5YL Legion, and the co-writer for the first years or so of the post Zero Hour Legion (basically, through the whole White Triangle arc).

My biggest fear as that Bedard's run is basically just going to be filler, and we're just going to be stuck sitting around waiting for the next big creative team to take over for the 50th anniversary.

A valid fear, Eryk.
Still, Legion is going to be 50, Superman will be 70 next year, and the Legion is intricately woven to the Superman mythos. It'll be in the spotlight along with Supie, so DC has the opportunity to really make this anniversary a special time for the Legion and push it to the Top Ten again!
Hopefully, not with another re-boot (Four-Boot?)

Now, now. Mr. Waid *knows* how crazy LSH fans are, so he'll get no boo-hoos from me. He knows where he messed up (Dream Girl's "dead-or-is-she?" death being a primary example).


Really, we aren't so hard to please, it's just that this is the third 'boot of a comic that should never have been totally rebooted to begin with. Hopefully, the finale of "52" will solve all this and the multiverse will be back in full force, restoring the *real* LSH. :teehee:

Anyhoo, we'll see what happens.

I live for that day MMLASH! Still,I hope the new writer will build on the good things that Mark Waid brought to this version of the Legion about which we talk in this here topic.

(But the bratty-attitude-and-proud-of-it has to go! I still feel alienated and mildly disturbed by that. Almost like I had no right to enjoy the "teen" Legion because I'm an old coot!)

Hopefully they will DE-Boot The Legion back to the original Pre-Crisis characters that lasted for 30 plus years for their 50th anniversary,With the cartoon going strong and the Anniversary coming up it's the perfect time to get rid of all the Lame Copies and bring back the Real Legion (anywhere after Wildfire joins but before Karate Kid dies) and put them in Dave Cockrum Costumes.