Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Brian Bendis & Ryan Sook relaunch the LSH

Quintastic! Cobie could not resist the combined might of the Lardforce and the Bendisforce.

Re:Timber Wolf, think I'd prefer Kirby's Big Bear to that angry bloody Wolverine, at least in terms of personality.

The Clone sequence character in DnA's Hypernaturals had a similar build to Darrick's Wolverine. I had thought he was more of an alternate Ultra Boy, but perhaps there was a bit of Brin in there too.

Maybe I'm weird, but I'd prefer a take on TW that doesn't start with "Which portrayal of Wolverine are we going to model him on?"

I agree. Staying away form Psycho claws is a plus. But the chances of DC staying away from the potential sales of having a character like that are close to zero. Actually, since they openly admit that the Terrifcs are based on the FF, the chances of not imitating Marvel here *are* zero.

My personal favourite was around the time he was drawn by Shoemaker or Lightle. When his acrobatic prowess was highlighted, as much as any feral nature.

Ditto. Long and lean and all dynamic and fast-moving. I don't want Brin to be 'DC's Wolverine,' a character he predates, I'd rather, if anyone, he be more like DC's Spider-Man (or Longshot, Gambit, Nightcrawler, etc.), moving and flipping and jumping around in combat, impossible to hit. Wolverine just bulls through and shrugs off injury. Brin shouldn't be like that. He doesn't regenerate. He doesn't fight like a football player. He avoids getting hit and hurt in the first place.

One of the things I like least about Legion interpretations in recent years is when they poach from Marvel. Imra's not a telekinetic. Brin doesn't heal fast or have claws. Both are great characters, and don't need to ape the successes of some other character to succeed themselves.

(I feel the same way about all the second-rate Superman ripoffs from other companies, including Marvel, like the Sentry. Lame. What the hell is wrong with Thor, or Namor, or Hercules, that you feel the need to have 'a Superman' of your own?)

But this way you can corrupt them into villains. Sentry. Hyperion. Gladiator. Wundarr the Aquarian was an exception: just lame.

I was thinking a cross between Captain America and Spider-Man as a better description of TW in Marvel terms, but actually the best character I can think to compare him to is another famous acrobatic DC character, namely Dick Grayson, just with his strength, speed, and agility pushed to superhuman levels.

TW's origin story is really fascinating. His dad basically creates a whole bunch of lab-grown enhanced humanoid slaves in order to mine for Zuunium, and then uses the Zuunium to give his son the same enhanced abilities as the androids.It's a shame that Karth Arn never appeared again, because he's actually a pretty sympathetic character in many ways.

Had DC and Marvel crossovers gone on every year, we might be reduced to an Ultraa vs Wundarr crossover by now.

I'm also in favor of Brin's acrobatics being highlighted more than claws and stuff. Though he still had super-strength and speed, at least the acrobatics and agility set him apart from, say, Ultra Boy and Mon-El.

Poor Brin in his darkest moments always compares himself to the Vision...

Ayla = Wanda? On the plus side, it won't be nearly as disastrous if Ayla has a mental breakdown...

They can both be pretty dense,

I see what you did there. But in Brin's defense, when his father first gave him his powers, he also tricked Brin into thinking he was a robot.

Yup. Went for the gag there.

Brin also had the uncanny knack of being right in a few of the Levitz plots, well in advance of others. He's instinctively smart.

Assuming the reporting of events is accurate, I wonder just how much political capital Bendis spent in this recall kerfuffle.

I just figured out how the new Legion can make everyone happy. Change the ethnic makeup of the team to represent more readers, but bring back Earth Man to represent people who feel like there’s not enough white people.

I'd just like to point out that, should there be any purple, metallic, on fire or green skinned readers out there, that they consider seeking medical attention as a priority over seeking equal ethnic representation in a comic book team.



Not enough red headed white people with freckles and a penchant for running into trouble with a giant box of identity changing hats for my liking. Such a simple request, and is it there? It is not. Well, I'm not going to stand for it. I'm going to sit for it instead, with a nice cup of tea and a good comic book to read. So there.

No matter what I'm sure the new book will be good, and hopefully great! I am going into it with an open mind and few expectations ….. I will be as neutral as I possibly can be.

Sure it will be hard to adjust to dark skinned Garth, Ayla and Salu not to mention a light green Jan, pink Jeckie, purple Tinya, and gold Nura (sigh) BUT I'm sure all these changes will hopefully grown on me over time!

According to what I've heard about today's Doomday Clock issue, the whole Rebirth Legion thread fizzles out in a particularly literal way.

Just skimmed the issue. Glad I didn't bother with this series!

All issues except 1 and 2 still available in my local shop. I'll give them a light dusting the next time I'm in, they've been there for so long. I peeked at the first couple of pages of the latest issue and flicked ahead to see the Imra part. Well the last bit of it anyway. Glad I wasn't picking any of it up for any Legion build up.

DC spend a huge amount of their resources in continuity navel gazing. It never seems to dawn on them that it's utterly wasted because they never complete anything satisfactorily, resulting in their continuity navel gazing.

As far as Doomsday Clock goes, it seems that Johns has been pushed aside for Bendis much as the Waid/Shooter run was pushed aside by Johns. Starlin's New Gods series being dumped on by Morrison's Final Crisis and so on.

What an adorably charming bit of fan art!

I hope she joins Legion World! That is, if she isn't already a Legion Worlder.

Oh, that *is* love!

While I'm not terribly enamored of most of the new designs, I'm looking forward to see what some of our own artists can do with them!

Adorable!!!