Comments on: Legion Lore

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:27:28 +0000

It’s weird magical thinking — “we were popular and successful back then, so maybe if we make everything like the old days again, we’ll be popular and successful.” Doesn’t seem to be working for them the way they hoped, though.

Ray, I hate to tell you: you will never get it back the way you want it. Someone will remember it different than you do, or they’ll want to work in something since then. It just can’t be done.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:43:38 +0000

I find it sort of odd that they are folding the LSH series back into Adventure Comics.

I’ve thought for a long time that DC was trying to recapture some sort of feel of their past. To the point that they were living in the past, hence how awful they are doing these days.

Yet bringing back a series from that long ago? Wow.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:01:46 +0000

I’ve been a fan of the Legion since the 1970′s, but I hated it when zero hour and beyond happened….I didn’t like h ow all of a sudden all that rich history meant nothing….like it never happened. I’m hoping Johns somehow, brings back the original Levitz/Grell Legion and puts the continuity that existed back in reality.

By: shanejayell

shanejayell — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:07:44 +0000

I followed V2 Legion through the “death” of the time trapper and the reboot that followed up till shortly after Zero hour. I really loved the “adult” Legion, and reverting the series to kids seemed a step back.

I am looking forward to Legion of Three Worlds, tho. *lol*

By: James Schee

James Schee — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:46:22 +0000

It was the VALOR series that made me aware of the Legion. The first issue I picked up was the same as you, where the Earth blew up.

I loved the anything can happen, real ADULT character that were found in that run when I went back to pick it up.

The early reboot issues were pretty fun too, but it began to drag about midway through the stuck in the 20th century story and never regained momentum and lost me during DnA’s Warhammer approach.

Waid’s first 6 issues in the newest run were great, I thought I’d gotten hooked again, but it lost steam quickly after that.

I looked at the recent version in Superman, and it was vaguely familiar, but not quite there. Of course art that made it look like their skin didn’t fit on the characters bones didn’t help.

I think because all the starts and stops it just made it hard to care about the characters. It became a series about the series with ether nostalgia or which Legion universe was real driving the stories and I lost interest.

Which is kind of sad in a small way. As I found the Legion at a time where comics were losing their luster for me.