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 Levitz Interview on Newsarama
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The Legion question:
NRAMA: Dan Didio comes to you with an offer or writing the opening arc of All-Star Legion of Super-Heroes in a classic, timeless style. What do you say?
PL: I'd have to be feeling really bored around here, or really guilty about something that I owed him. I'm blessed by being one of the faster comic book writers of my generation, so I can't sit here and say it's literally physically impossible, but it's a bunch of weekends tossed away. I still have one kid at home who occasionally likes seeing his father - although not as much anymore now that he's 14, but occasionally [laughs].
What I do well as a comic book writer, and that's something I was reminded of by doing the arc on JSA - I do much, much better when I'm on a running series than I do when I'm on a one-shot or a limited series. I'm a continuity guy. I'm a character development guy, a subplot guy. Give me a short, zero-sum assignment, and an awful lot of what I'm good at goes out the window pretty fast.
It's not like Dan can walk in and say, "We need a fill-in issue for Superman, do something that people will remember for the next 20 years." I don't have that in me. And I have enough self-awareness to be cautious about that opportunity.
And I don't think that my life allows me to say, "Sure, I'll take on Legion of Super-Heroes, and here's your plan for a 60 issue arc." And besides - Dan has some pretty interesting ideas for who can write Legion anyway. I don't think he needs me at the moment. Maybe when the current guy's done.
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PL: Well - I'm reading Joe Casey's Avengers - Earth's Mightiest Heroes stuff as soon as it comes out these days, because he's writing about the Avengers that I read and would have loved to have written. His first series, I thought was a lovely job of going back, taking what was rich about it, and doing it in a modern vernacular. But that's still a nostalgic gig - you can't write the old Avengers today as a concurrent gig. You can't do most of the things that I didn't get a chance to do by today, because I don't have a time machine to go back and try them. To follow up EDE's post. I loved Levitz's Legion cause it had what my favorite Avengers had...and both are the finest examples of super hero soap opera. Character development, interaction and subplots. Now I know where Mr. Levitz learned that from.
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wow... this seems like the first actual confirmation of an All-Star LSH! Kewl!
The childhood friend Exnihil never had.
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Maybe. There's a lot of ambiguity in things that are said.
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