Not doing it differently could potentially put it in similar straights with past iterations, though, which as mentioned, could run the risk of being dated (and not in a positive manner) or tone-deaf or worse.
I guess, but this feels kinda particular to stress on in and of itself. As well, using "SJW" is usually not advisable when making points, because the term is so loaded and simultaneously definition-less and meaningless.
As for what counts as being polarizing or as inviting as possible, that, too, depends. And given what I've heard and read about LoSH, everyone seems to have their own idea of what they feel makes a perfect Legion story, and it is so divided that no one group would likely be able to be made happy, regardless of how the creative team manages things. Part of me feels that's why there hasn't been much of anything LoSH in forever. It would also explain the various LoSH "reboots" throughout DC history I've vaguely heard about.
So I don't know.
Thanks. None of those are straight up dealbreakers on their face for me at least, but I can understand the frustration especially when comparing to Levitz who quite easily juggles characters and is capable of deeply layered storytelling. But of course it will depend on the actual product. Some of those weaknesses I've tolerated in other writers - Snyder comes to mind. And King, for that matter.
I stuck with Snyder on Batman largely because of Capullo and because Snyder was so good in the middle part of his stories. So far I've stuck with King because his stuff is so unpredictable that its fun to see what happens next. Like I said, I'll give Bendis a chance. Hopefully others will, too. I'm pretty confident in him because I've liked his characterization of Superman. I'd be ok if he didn't juggle characters but instead chose to use each issue to focus on one character or a small subset of the Legion.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
I'll answer since I have read a ton of his work, unfortunately.
Avengers Dissassembled and New Avengers so ruined the Avengers for me that I dropped the book after collecting it for almost 40 years straight. It plus Civil War ruined the charcaters o bad I have not and will not buy another Avengers or related book again. Sold of my entire Avengers/Cap/Thor/Iron Man/ et al.
X-Men. I have had a love hate relationship with that franchise over the years. Bendis killed it for good. Sold all that suff off too. ( not just Bendis' fault. He just nailed the coffin shut )
Guardians of the Galaxy was a book that I had bought whenever it came out since the 70's. I LOVED the movies. I hated his run and couldn't stand it once he took it over.
Ultimate Spider-Man was so bloated and decompressed I couldn't make it 12 issues. Made bank on selling them off though.
Thank the Gods his Moon Knight run was so short,but, even then, it was the worst 12 issues of MK that I have ever read and I have every book he's ever been in.
That being said, I was enjoying his Superman run until the recent revelation that Jimmy slept with Talia Al Ghul. It's that kind of stupid garbage that ruins all of his books for me. That and the fact he can't write more than one or two distinctive speech patterns. His lack of any respect for previous characterizations and history or that his characters must service the plot no matter if they would say/act that way has really spoiled his writing for me.
Was really hoping that wouldn't be the case at DC but, it's looking like nothing has changed since he came over.
That being said, I do like Bendis as a person and as a fan. I just wish he would not write characters that I like.
Batman - Daredevil
If he does write Legion, I hope they don't give him a 'Bendis-style' artist.
Maybe if they at least give the book an artist that can draw dynamically, it may counter his 'multi-panel nothing happens' or 'single panel filled with too much dialogue for the amount of time possible in the scene'.
I agree that he is better on street-level characters.
It seems that he doesn't grasp superpowers well enough and the artists he is usually paired with are poor choices for super-powered action scenes.
That said, if Evan Shaner or Steve Rude can get lulled into doing the art I would be interested, no matter who is writing it.
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I've enjoyed my reads of the Reboot and DnA years. The Silver Age and GDS are still my big whales of buying.
Long Live the Legion!
Le Suck it, Dolphin!
-God I am so tired.
SCOTT SUMMERS AND EMMA FROST DESERVED BETTER.
DC celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Legion...
With a special Anniversary issue, an issue of Secret Origins and one of the only two 'title-specific' Who's Who series to get produced (the other was Star Trek).
It even spread to Mayfair Games, which had the license for the DC characters in the role-playing world. They published a two-volume Sourcebook for Legion, with parts written by then-writer Paul Levitz and thoroughly researched. The books rivaled the Who's Who in depth.
Meanwhile, at the same time, the Legion was also featured in Mayfair's only multi-part adventure, which was comprised of four books.
Unfortunately, after such a big celebration of Legion, it's characters, world and history, it all came to a crashing end in just two years with the cancellation of the Baxter run.
A page 'tabloid' ad in Dragon Magazine, promoting Mayfair's Legion output timed around the Anniversary.
The Who's Who series was teased as a "New DC Comics Legion of Super-Heroes" series.
An ad for the Mayfair Sourcebook.
DC Comics' in-house ad for the Legion Anniversary books.
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The three books from DC, celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Legion.
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I still have all 7 issues of Who's Who in the Legion. I loved that series so much. They should give a copy of it too every new Legion writer when they come on so they can really brush up on the history of the team before taking over. I wish DC would do series like this again
Reading this gave me a really good laugh. I stopped reading his Superman even for free so would have never enjoyed this moment, thanks for the laugh.
Bendis wrote a couple great books that both petered out despite him staying on and on and on. If you've read a lot of his work you can't escape the dialogue or the fact whole issues go by with little to nothing happening, terrible at plotting. He's not the only writer to stop me from buying a new LoSH series but he's at the top of no way will DC get my money. I might try it for free but probably still drop it as my time is valuable to me.
I have both it and the Star Trek Who's Who (which similarly managed to cover a large history, theirs being just over 20 years at the time), and I agree.
I had such high hopes for the 2010 series when I found out that everything after Magic War was scuttled and everything before the end of the Baxter run was back in canon.
Sadly, there were too many things working against it.
Cinar's art was very good, though.
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Yes, there are speedsters in the future. Another great thing about the whole universe that has built up over the fifty plus years of Legion continuity is how many interesting characters and cultures and worlds exist to explore, even apart from the Legion itself, such as the Heroes of Lallor, or the people of Murra, or the exact nature of Bgtzl, or what the current status is of 'Great Mother Ocean' inhabited by the Hyrkraians (and, at least for a time, subjugated by the Gil'Dishpan).
Does anyone have any links to LOSH siteson the web. I'm looking for a old site that had a bunch of star maps of the locations of various planets in the LOSH universe and the distance they were from Earth? I remember Legion Outpost but i don't think that is the one of with the maps.
Here's a few:
https://www.cosmicteams.com/legion/
http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://bitsoflegionnairebusiness.blogspot.com/
www.legionworld.net
http://paulfrench.ca/losp/
http://longlivethelegion.blogspot.com/
http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/
http://www.readersadvice.com/lsh/lsh.html
http://www.idyllmtn.com/rac/dc/lsh/lsh_res.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20000608.../mmbentry.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20000519...willi/lsh.html
http://www.infiniteearths.org/lsh
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