Kind of shocked no one is talking about this
It's another Bendis interview regarding the Legion, but this time he's talking more about how it relates to the Superman family, issues 12-15, and Jon Kent.
[url]https://www.newsarama.com/45609-brian-michael-bendis-legion-of-super-heroes-superman-august.html[/url]
I'll just throw up some notes and key points for everyone's convenience
* This is the first time the Legion will have existed in this incarnation of the DCU. [B]Brian Michael Bendis:[/B] [I]"Yes. The debut of the Legion of Super-Heroes — [B]and there are now, at the moment, no Legion of Super-Heroes[/B] — but their debut in this DC Universe is going to be in the pages of Superman."[/I]
*[B] Nrama:[/B] [I]"Does that mean there’s already a relationship between the Legion and Clark, perhaps that already exists? Or are they starting anew with that relationship now?"[/I]
[B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"I don’t want to spoil what the relationship is to the Superman family, but it is a version of the classic relationship.They have come here for a reason, and that reason is because of something that happened in the Superman family. And that is all going to be revealed on page."[/I]
[B]Note:[/B] This is what I'm surprised no one is talking about. The implication here seems to be that their relationship with Superman and his family isn't that they came to Clark when he was younger, and they paled around with him in the future because, as Bendis just said, there was no Legion before this point. Newsarama thinks the "version of the classic relationship" is that Jon is the first ever Superboy to join this team ([url]https://www.newsarama.com/45627-was-this-the-real-reason-dc-bendis-changed-superboy-s-age.html[/url]). They also think the book might be called "Superboy and The Legion of Superheroes."
* [B]Nrama:[/B] [I]"Hmm… do I sense you avoiding that question about Jon?"[/I]
[B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"Literally, the answer to your question is the spoil at the end of the issue. [Laughs.] That’s why I’m not — it’s literally a spoiler. I’m sorry I’m not answering it more straight."[/I]
* [B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"Yes, in Superman #14. The United Planets, the Legion — it all happens in #14. It starts in #12, but it really lands in #14."[/I]
* [B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"This whole storyline has been a build-up to get to this moment."[/I]
[B]Nrama:[/B] [I]"The current Superman storyline?"[/I]
[B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"It’s been going on, literally, since I walked into the door at DC Comics. It’s been building to this moment."[/I]
* [B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"They take you to a place that is so completely unique that the movies haven’t even gone there yet.
The Legion of Super-Heroes is one of the few corners of comics that you could only get in comics now. And that got super-exciting to me, the idea that there is something so powerful, so potent, so full of imagination that comics is where they have to be."[/I]
* [B]Nrama:[/B] [I]"OK, you just spoke the language for Legion fans."[/I]
[B]Bendis:[/B] [I]"Yeah, ‘cause I’m one of them. The Young Justice and their point of view is something I deeply believe in. I will only be able to show you, with the first couple issues of Legion, that what the Legion are bringing is something even more potent and even more powerful.
We actually get to leave where we are and go 1,000 years into the future. I can’t think of anything more inviting right now, in the world we live in.
I would love to travel 1,000 years into the future to see a hopeful Age of Heroes. That sounds exciting. I think about it every day as I’m writing it. And that’s what I’m promising."[/I]