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Legion Of Super Heroes

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Yotsuba & Benjamin!

13:32 / 22.03.06

Nertz.

15:03 / 22.03.06

Again, my apologies.

Did they really do what Rich J. said they were doing? It just doesn't make sense and seems so silly.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

15:08 / 22.03.06

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Yotsuba & Benjamin!

17:08 / 22.03.06

Just to clarify.

Everything up to the last page was amazing. Supergirl's first act in 3001 is brilliant, one of the best saves I've read in decades. Like, Shades of Dark Knight Returns levels of awesome.

I'm holding out hope that Waid knows what he's doing, but we'll have to see.

00:26 / 23.03.06

After reading the issue, I feel reasonably certain that this is defintely NOT a "This is all a dream" situation.

Supergirl SAYS she think's it's a dream. She may be in error.

Or, this may have something to do with psychic/dream dimension/wacky magical stuff. Maybe Dream Girl's spirit is intervening somehow...?

Or what is that's not the real Supergirl (even though even if this theory is true, the real S-girl will definitely be a part of the ongoing series given the name change, of course)?

15:00 / 02.04.06

I really enjoyed this comic. I was really sceptical about it when I read the pitch, but seeing the Legion's reaction to what for them is an almost mythical figure was cool.
I will admit I too am a bit worried about the whole "it's a dream" situation, but I'm hoping Waid knows what he's doing. I'd agree with Finder with it not being settled yet, just because Supergirl thinks it's a dream doesn't mean it is.
The Legion based their philosophy on comics that survived into the future right? So in the DC universe presumably there's an analog to the DC company that produces those comics? What if Supergirl thinks it's a dream because she's read about the Legion in comics? Or is this all too meta and I'm just talking out of my hat?

16:03 / 02.04.06

I think the biggest problem with this series is that Waid's spent almost a year-and-a-half asking questions and creating mysteries, and it's about bloody time he starts ANSWERING some of them.

We have a status quo (two, actually, since SG is such a disruption). Can we move forward, now?

14:06 / 30.09.06

So who's still reading?

I started picking up the series when they added Supergirl (a good jumping-on point, because I was living on the cheap when the earlier issues came out and had to pass them up; still haven't gotten around to snagging the trades yet). It's been pretty consistantly good superhero comics and usually leaves me with a smile on my face, but it's nothing phenomenal.

Issue #22, however, is the BEE'S KNEES.

There's a thread on the Film/TV forum called "TV Shows You've Never Seen (and what do you think they're about?)" yeah? Well, before I started reading Legion, I thought it could be summed up as "A bunch of idealistic kids work together and kind of fight futuristic villainy, but are really more concerned with dating each other and working through their awkward teenage years...IN SPACE!" And this issue is EXACTLY that.

Everybody's jealous of everybody else, and none of their problems are all that serious (well, I guess Sun Boy's is), but they're all totally worked up about them. It's fantastic. And there's some nice ambiguity as well (Does Karate Kid punch Ultra Boy because he's jealous and looking to take out some frustration or because that's really part of the training? Is Invisible Kid making up the stuff about Supergirl's EM field, basically saying "Stay away from my girl" while using the phrase "your basic Newtonian forces"?)

Everything I wanted out of the Legion comic. Makes one look back on one's own teenage years and smile on how important it all seemed at the time. Plus, the angsty (but light-hearted) teen romance is playing better than the anti-Establishment tone, which seems really forced when coming out of Waid. "Careful Gramps! You might break a hip!" and all that.

Plus, Invisible Kid looks just like I did when I was 16, but with a cooler jacket.

rabideyemovement

14:59 / 30.09.06

I'm still reading. Waid keeps pumping out the goodness here, and Legion is one of my favorite comics now.
I'm really curious where this Supergirl story is headed, and I've even more curious about the new Legion cartoon on TV. I wonder if it will be anything like the current book.

15:45 / 30.09.06

i'm still reading and digging it. Was going to drop the title as it was getting a little eeeh... for me, but this new issue has me re-hooked. More later.

Keith, like a scientist

18:10 / 30.09.06

i'm with Finder, there was a rough patch there were it was full-on eeh. But it's been a lot better recently. Supergirl is the epitome of peachy keen in this book, which is charming to read.

I just wish Kitson would go back to doing full on pencils, instead of this layout thing he has been doing for what seems like ever.

I don't really get the Dominator stuff, which is a shame, cause their first appearance awhile back where they reference 52 sounded interesting.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:22 / 01.10.06

The cartoon's closer to the reboot Legion mixed with the pre-Crisis version. Which makes me unbelievably happy; even though I'm reading Waid's current run, it's tending to leave me a little empty afterward.

Oddly, I'm also tracking down a bunch of the 5-year-gap stuff and I'm loving that, except for the continuity muddle...

16:08 / 07.09.07

The news just broke on Newsrama that Jim Shooter himself is slated to write LEGION. They're not going to change the Mark Waid continuity/reboot, they're going to stick with it.

BUT, despite Shooter's legendary history with the title, isn't this a bit like when Stan Lee writes comics for Marvel ("The Last Fantastic Four Story," anyone)? Shooter hasn't written comics since the Valiant days... how are we to know if he's any good? It's not like I expect Jim Starlin's NEW GODS book to be amazing just cause Starlin's 80s stuff was cool... and we all know Stan Lee's writing skills have waned considerably since his Undisputed Glory Days (it's also that his style is dated, etc.).

00:18 / 08.09.07

My only Shooter experience is Secret Wars, which I did not like, and SW II, which, if memory serves, was just abominable. Maybe a event comic is not the benchmark with which to judge a writer. I'll give this a shot for sure and hope for the best, as Waid & Kitson made me an LoSH fan...

Haus of Mystery

21:13 / 04.12.07

Damn this is cool. I wish I'd had it on my wall when I was a kid.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:49 / 04.12.07

GEEZ! New wallpaper NOW!

I loved the v2 Giffen Legion. I love that poster -- particularly the transparent spectres of Beast Boy, Lyle Norg, Chemical King and Ferro Lad hovering amid it all. Brainiac 5 hanging with Darkseid's Superman-Servant and smirking at Streaky.

15:02 / 09.01.08

did anyone read Jim Shooter writing this again? Was it any good/fun? I can't really say I expect Shooter to be a good writer...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:42 / 09.01.08

It was competent. Possible new characters being introduced rather than rebooters, some fun moments. There were some really flat lines of dialogue and really dull characterization on a few people ("Hi, this is Light Lass, please excuse her while she waits for her personality to come back from the cleaners..."). Some of the comedy was good and some of it was bad. I'm not entirely convinced by Manapul's art, not yet. He suffers for the same reason I was never very fond of Kitson -- I never have a sense of scale or volume from their work, and those are art qualities I've come to associate very closely with the Legion and their world.

Short of it: okay, I'm not convinced I'd read this monthly but I'll probably pick up the trade when it comes out.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:30 / 09.06.08

Despite the overall ennui I've been suffering as a result of Jim Shooter's "Legion Redux" (I really wish I hadn't spent money to try it out, yawn) and all the "Legion of Three Worlds" bollocks (which sounds like a remix of the "mashing the adult and teen versions together and make something fresh OOPS Zero Hour happened never mind" plan from wayback) -- I would kill to read Eric Canete's Legion if you could find a decent writer. A future of super-glamour-drones marching over their enemies on the catwalk.

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