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I still can't stand that they took off Cosmic Boy's bubble helmet! It's "Lightning BOY", not "Lightning Lad," and they've been getting his and Saturn Girl's colors wrong for over fifty years!!
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I still can't stand that they took off Cosmic Boy's bubble helmet! It's "Lightning BOY", not "Lightning Lad," and they've been getting his and Saturn Girl's colors wrong for over fifty years!!
Ok, I admit I saw Matter eater lad and I was like "nooooooooo!!" but I will be cautious about what they do.
"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
Here's where i stand. I'm excited about the return of Legion. I think the new 52 Legion that was a continuation of the class Legion could have been good -- but it wasn't great reading, and the art was mediocre. Levitz was clearly not up to the task -- and I don't think bringing in Giffen at the last minute did any good -- in fact, it did the opposite if he was responsible for what happened with Star Boy, Sun Boy and Phantom Girl.
So it's been several years without any Legion. Now, we're seeing new designs and learning about a new series. I'll give it a try. But...
I think it's going too far astray from what came before. Why not have designs a bit closer to the animated series? Those were inventive, but I could still tell who was whom. I'm think that this version will ultimately fail the same way previous reboots did -- because it's throwing too much away.
I guess you either appreciate the history or you don't. I'm in the former category.
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I literally don’t know if that’s a real cover or a parody of One. I’ll take the Sook art and designs all day over that!!
I'm scared for what Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy might look like.
Well, let's agree to disagree.
You think it's easy, for me, it is not, because of the sheer mass of material that new readers are expected to get, which is more often than not a convoluted mess. Jumping in whenever you want is just a myth peddled by long time readers because I don't have any prior attachment to characters I only read about on wikia. And if I don't care about those, I don't see how I could just come on board with issue number 151 without having read the previous 150. Which, considering the nature of the comics format, doesn't make for an enticing prospective, even with modern technologies.
These designs have the right mix of the familiar and different. Definitely going to check this out.
This is an interesting and excellent point regarding how continuity shifts and the multiverse could be used in story and the Legion’s awareness of all of it.
Overall, I like the wide range of character designs and changes in appearance. I’m looking forward to seeing if Bendis dives into some sci-fi concepts for the characters, their powers, the nature of their beings, and their perceptions of the world alongside all the space opera shenanigans.
This is true at some extent.
If you enter in a story with characters you don't know, the story should make you care about these characters. Or the reader will not be interested in looking for more information.
In the new Legion, DC and Bendis want new readers can enter in this and start to care about these characters from the beginning.