He mentions the UP, Colu, there's an image of Validus and he mentions Stealth, (from LEGION?) but is this the same one who died, an alt universe version or someone else?? (altough there's an image of someone kinda dressed like Stealth, but from the coloring looks more like Phase (Tinya)). I didn't read Convergence, so I don't know who that would be...
"Harley is different," Palmiotti said, saying that Conner couldn't make the convention because she was finishing Harley Quinn's Big Black Book, a 38-page team-up book with Wonder Woman and the first appearance of the London Legion of Superheroes. "One of them's called the Pub-Crawler."
"Everything about this is going to feel different." (Saturn Girl, Legion of Super-Heroes #1)
I think that the current group over at DC-- editors, writers and all, conflate the Legion of Super-Heroes with Normalman's Legion of Superfluous Heroes-- they treat it all as a joke.
Of course, there is a relatively well-known interview with comedian and 'intellectual' John Hodgman in which he discusses his love for the Legion:
"The Legion of Super-Heroes is, at its core, ridiculous: a teenage superhero club in the far future with something like 75 members and whose powers range from god-like invulnerability and strength to more esoteric skills, like the ability to make things heavy or bounce high."
And I think whoever is in charge at DC has taken 'ridiculous' to heart.
But they ignore what he said following that comment:
"Then, over a years-long run, Paul Levitz, often in collaboration with artist Keith Giffen, did the most ridiculous thing of all: they took it seriously. He didn't throw out the silly stuff, but used it all to create a fully realized future world. When you start caring about a character called Matter-Eater Lad, that's some pretty deft writing."
We all have different perspectives, depending on our experiences with "our" Legions.
I think that the Levitz / Giffen team-up Hodgman refers to is the Baxter era, possibly specifically the Great Darkness Saga. Whatever their later work may have been, there is undeniably (OK, go ahead and deny it) a lot of effort put into that period. Every active Legionnaire appeared in at least one panel in each issue for a couple of years, and multiple story-lines were juggled with dexterity.
Plus, they invented Interlac.
Fanfic Lady: I was personally pretty unimpressed with the "Legion of Super-Heroes vs. Atomic Knights". Yes, I saw it as a slight to the Legion. Basically a "Bambi-vs-Godzilla" joke. And artwork.
Like I say, we all see things from different perspectives.
“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.” -- Groucho Marx
While not a direct Legion reference, in "Justice League 3001" Giffen has a couple of robotic henchmen who are another riff on the old strip "Alfonse and Gaston" - a reference he used before for "Algronsk and Kaston" from 5YL LSH #2 (the robots who hunt Jo)
Maybe they are deliberately distancing the Legion from the rest of the DCU so they can sell the property to someone who actually cares enough to do it right.
First comic books ever bought: A DC four-for-47-cents grab bag that included Adventure #331. The rest is history.
Maybe they are deliberately distancing the Legion from the rest of the DCU so they can sell the property to someone who actually cares enough to do it right.
This is not our Legion... this is not our Legion... this is not our Legion...
Takes away the sting
True, but it's a good anti-Legion for one of those alternate universe stories in which you meet the criminal version of yourself.
I kind of like Quislet as a sea mine. He did make things explode.
I think of Legion 3001 more as the sort of satire you'd find in Mad Magazine and enjoy it for that. If the above image was the official new Legion version, however, I wouldn't buy the book. Too negative - it's what they did with Batman at one point and I pretty much gave up on the character.
It's a shame they're reduced to echoes and shadows. Probably due to not having the creative talent (definitely including editorial) to keep the actual Legion going.
There are one or two nice touches to the picture, as an alternate version. But it's not going to make me go anywhere near the title.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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artwork.
