Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes The 5 Year Gap

Raises it's head once more...

DC are launching a weekly 5 years later comic, a link to which can be found here http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/11...s-later-the-weekly-comic-from-dc-comics/

Every title jumps 5 years ahead for a month and returns back to the present day. But a Weekly 5 years later book will remain. I note Giffen's involvement.

Both the GiffenBaum 5 year gap and the Adult Legion stories were pretty contentious.

Not least of the reasons for that was that any future plots would be rail-roaded towards predefined outcomes. Not that things worked out that way, quite, but that was back when minds weren't changed every 5 minutes on entire events.

This does seem like one desperate teaser to keep reading the books. But it falls flat if the events shown 5 years later aren't worth reading the books for to get to that point.

"Oh look my favourite character is now a druggie/dead/appalling 5 years later. Will I bother reading? No."

Additionally, if DC are treating it as anything other than a possible future, every creative team is now fenced in. I'm reminded of George Perez's Superman run as an example of how well DC plan and communicate.

I do think that branching out into a weekly comic is a good idea, if the price point is decent. I can only hope it's a bit more successful than Action Comics Weekly. That anthology tried to capture something for most readers, but had too many weak links to succeed. I did like the Secret Six though.

While the links I've read to this suggest that DC's previous 1 year later was a "critical success2 written by a "crack" team, I racall it as a utter waste of time, written by numbers by a team who must have mentally moved on to their next projects. So, again it can only be hoped that this is a little better.

I'm not a huge fan of those final page upcoming teasers in comics, although I can see why they'd want them to keep some of the drifting readers. I'd rather not have the spoilers.

What if it were the Legion? How would seeing another adult Legion story or a peek into the 5YG feel?

I love the idea of a weekly comic. Actually, my ultimate dream comic that I would so love to read the hell out of would be a weekly "real time" WW2 series similar to All-Star Squadron.

As far as anything the present DC is doing... meh.

What EDE said.



That's exactly the reaction I had to the original 5YG, and though time has helped me to partially appreciate its ambition, I find too many things about the execution atrocious. I'm not even going to bother with this new one. I'm just glad the Legion is not around to be affected.

It sounds like something from an X-title. Therefore not for me. I’m so sick of alternate timelines/universes etc.

Image did this, back in the day. Right around issue 12 of some books, they skipped a month and presented 'issue 25' or whatever, flashing one year ahead, and then the next 12 issues went back to the story in progress, and led up to that flash forward scene in 'issue 25.'

It was weird and off-putting for me, as a fan at the time, and it seems utterly pointless to do a 'five years later' event with a company like DC that can't even keep continuity straight for five consecutive months.

What's the point of flashing forward to a 'future' that's almost guaranteed to never ever happen? Want to write an Elseworlds tale? Fine, write a darn Elseworlds tale. Some of them are even excellent!

+1 to that! Some of them I wish were not Elseworlds, Superboy's Legion and Golden Age come to mind.

We had a mini-version--not five years in length, but it was Adventure Comics #1 page 30. Several panels were shown of upcoming Legion events. Only around half of them (depending on how you count) actually came true and even that's only because Paul decided that he was going to continue using Earth-Man.

"...it seems utterly pointless to do a 'five years later' event with a company like DC that can't even keep continuity straight for five consecutive months."


Nods in agreement.

Actually, someone should take full advantage of it a la Ambush Bug. Panels include arm wrestling Darkseid, killing the JLA, using the anti monitor's head as a desk lamp, beating up Lobo. It's not as if there's any likelihood of being held to any of it.


"If it wasn't for that gosh darn Flashpoint, you guys would have seen all of that. Honest."

Marvel already beat them to that joke with Squirrel Girl, I think, who is constantly 'beating' impossible foes like Thanos or whatever.

This just sounds like disappointment again. I used to get excited by stuff like this but now...

The Ambush Bug v Squirrel Girl company crossover event! Right up there with JLA v Avengers!

Sounds to me like yet another flashy, but ultimately pointless, gimmick from the "new" DC. (The 5 year gap thing, I mean. The Ambush Bug/Squirrel Girl crossover actually sounds more readable.)