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[QUOTE=Stick Figure;4631450]I guess what I’m confused about is I thought Superman traveled back & fourth. Honestly, I don’t even know what he uses to travel through time. I’m assuming it’s the Legion ring. I guess I don’t think of Superman as a time traveler. If he goes to the future and stays for awhile I can grasp that better than he has a mission in the future and then goes home. Staying in the future for his teen years makes more sense. I didn’t know that was part of his old continuity.[/QUOTE]
Let me really blow your mind - Supergirl was a member of the Legion as well. And even though Superman didn't meet Kara until he was an adult, Superboy and Supergirl were team members in the Legion for many years due to time travel.
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Silverage Superman can time travel on his own violation and with legion ring
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[QUOTE=caj;4631819]Let me really blow your mind - Supergirl was a member of the Legion as well. And even though Superman didn't meet Kara until he was an adult, Superboy and Supergirl were team members in the Legion for many years due to time travel.[/QUOTE]
Head is now blown. I’ll wait and see if Bendis can streamline this a bit. That’s just too wacky to grasp. Superman being able to travel through time on his own is a new one to me also.
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Redesigns are so ugly.
Also does it look like Bendis is making Jon X Irma a thing?
Saturn Girl and Superboy sittin' in a tree!
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Can't Flash travel through time on his own in current continuity? So Superman is just about as fast (if not as fast) so he should be able to break through the time barrier on his own. Oh but let me guess--the Flash uses the Speed Force and Superman doesn't. So that's probably the loophole they use to nerf Superman. However, it's pretty clear that characters in the DCU are travelling beyond the speed of light by one means or another to get across the vast distances of the cosmos, so if they can do that (which is impossible in our universe) then they can open up wormholes in time to travel to different time periods. If Superman has been around this long, he's surely explored the concept of time travel--but maybe realized that other than being a great vacation package, it doesn't actually do anything for him, because of the immutable laws of time travel that stop anyone from changing their destiny.
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[QUOTE=Sutekh;4630915]DC's history suggests the standard launch.
1) No Legion book.
2) New creator shows up and talks about how much he loves the Legion.
3) New Legion title bears only superficial resemblance to the Legion he claimed to love, disappointing any of the old Legion fans who were suckered into buying it.
4) DC cancels new Legion book, and claims that fans are unpleasable, because they, once again, bait and switched them.
5) No Legion book.
We're already at stage 3.[/QUOTE]
This is true. I agree a lot.
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[QUOTE=Stick Figure;4631450]I guess what I’m confused about is I thought Superman traveled back & fourth. Honestly, I don’t even know what he uses to travel through time. I’m assuming it’s the Legion ring. I guess I don’t think of Superman as a time traveler. If he goes to the future and stays for awhile I can grasp that better than he has a mission in the future and then goes home. Staying in the future for his teen years makes more sense. I didn’t know that was part of his old continuity.[/QUOTE]
DC created Superboy in 1945, just seven years after Superman's first appearance, due to the increased popularity of child heroes.
Placing the stories in Clark's youth, left him in something of a void. Especially since he was the supposedly the first hero.
So, growing up, he didn't have a Titans or anything like that to hang around with.
And an important experience that most kids share is developing a close group of friends that bond and grow together through their teen years.
So to make Superboy more relatable to teenagers, he needed friends. And not just normal kids. Super-Kids.
Enter: The Legion.
Going to the future to be with the Legion was about as effortless to Superboy as a typical teen hopping on a bike and riding across town to a friend's place. The place where four or more of them get together regularly for several years.
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Something else I find humorous...
Interlac is a Legion staple and is part of the reason non-readers complain about classic Legion: too much detail for them to grasp.
And Hickman's X-Men has introduced Krakoan, which is very similar to Interlac.
So... that's acceptable? And Interlac isn't?
:confused:
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[QUOTE=Stick Figure;4631669]To be honest, I’m not crazy about Jon being in the Legion. Why can’t someone in the future just take up the Superboy name? Why have a Superboy at all? I wish all the characters were from the same period.
I love the art and Bendis is always solid so I’m definitely giving this a few issues.[/QUOTE]
becasue someone has to sell the book, someone the audience knows/has interest in
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[QUOTE=Stick Figure;4631992]Head is now blown. I’ll wait and see if Bendis can streamline this a bit. That’s just too wacky to grasp. Superman being able to travel through time on his own is a new one to me also.[/QUOTE]
I really, really recommend the Levitz/Giffen run from the 80s. That stuff is the all-time standard for Legion stories and honestly, even still holds up today! The Great Darkness Saga in particular is one of the greatest stories in the DC canon.
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[QUOTE=Zeeguy91;4632573]I really, really recommend the Levitz/Giffen run from the 80s. That stuff is the all-time standard for Legion stories and honestly, even still holds up today! The Great Darkness Saga in particular is one of the greatest stories in the DC canon.[/QUOTE]
It was so innovative that Levitz' storytelling style used in Legion was named the 'Levitz Paradigm' and is up there with Wally Wood's '22 Panels' and Stan Lee's 'Marvel Style' (Plot>Art>Script) as techniques many new comics writers study.
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I always assumed that Giffen and Levitz did something like the Marvel style, with Paul and Keith coming up with a plot, then Keith breaking that down as panels, then Paul generating a script, followed by lettering and finishes from other talents. Am I wrong?
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[QUOTE=KangMiRae;4631999]Redesigns are so ugly.
Also does it look like Bendis is making Jon X Irma a thing?
Saturn Girl and Superboy sittin' in a tree![/QUOTE]
Yeah, they've been paired a lot so far, could just be because Saturn Girl is always one of the focal points of the legion and Jon is a new character, but who knows..
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[QUOTE=kcekada;4631087]That's my biggest problem with all of DC these days. Reboot after reboot -- history lost or mangled.
I'll give this a try, but am keeping expectations low. I think they went a bit too far with the overhaul. I would have preferred more new characters than totally erasing the classic members.[/QUOTE]
Ditto. I like the most recent batch of 'new characters' (Dragonwing, Chemical Kid, Glorith, etc.), but would be open to yet more new characters, as opposed to tweaked versions of Garth, Rokk and Imra, again.
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[QUOTE=Lee Stone;4632350]Something else I find humorous...
Interlac is a Legion staple and is part of the reason non-readers complain about classic Legion: too much detail for them to grasp.
And Hickman's X-Men has introduced Krakoan, which is very similar to Interlac.
So... that's acceptable? And Interlac isn't?
:confused:[/QUOTE]
I've never gotten that argument either. X-Men continuity is just as convoluted, if not more so than the LSH's, and that's without reboots. Hickman's a big legion fan. His Avengers run was a love letter to the Legion, I havent read his X-men yet, but it appears to be similar.