I could see the importance of the JSA in DClock. After all, they disappeared with Flashpoint. But the Legion existed and even interacted with the DC Universe in nu52 stories. The whole Saturn Girl mission seems unnecessary and forced. Now, I can see the story in shuffling continuity and having the specific resulting Legion be a ramification of the story, but none of this is needed for a new Legion of Super-Heroes #1.
I have never bought into that "I need a clean jumping on point" thinking. When I jumped into both X-Men and Legion they already had decades of stories under their belts and after a bit I understood everything just fine. This modern way of thinking about always needing a brand new starting point to me is just lazy. Older fans had to jump into every title in the old days without a shinning new number one issue.
Like most people, I'm not a fan of the costume designs, but if the stories are really fantastic and bring the world of the Legion back to life in a way that feels both familiar and surprising (that's what Levitz managed to do), then I will have no problem overlooking the costumes.
Once a new artist comes aboard, we'll be getting new costumes (to complain about) anyway.
I appreciate that Bendis is keeping the Lad-Lass names instead of trying to update them to "cooler" names like we had in the Zero Hour Reboot -- never did like Live Wire at all.
I also like that Bendis has set the Legion roster at a high number (34 members). I'm going to double down on my prediction earlier (in both this thread and the Legion Appreciation thread) that Jon Kent will be a Legionnaire.
I am fully on board with this as I said earlier. Now that we know we're going to have to sift through 34 members (which will probably be cherry-picked from all previous Legion iterations plus I would guess that Bendis will want to contribute a few new ones of his own), we'll need a gateway character now more than ever because even the characters that are familiar to all of us may be getting tweaks to their backstories for this latest reboot.
Jon Kent is popular with the readers, and he'll be a great device to use to learn about this newest Legion as he himself does.
I'm thinking that Jon's addition to the Legion would make 35 members. If so, who do you guys want the other 34 members to be?
So far, we know:
1. Cosmic Boy
2. Lightning Lad
3. Saturn Girl
4. Brainiac 5
5. Chameleon Boy
6. Shadow Lass
7. Wildfire
8. Timber Wolf (or maybe Ultra Boy)
so, who's the rest?
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I usually will not touch anything Bendis writes but I will give this a chance since it is the LOSH. I’m just glad they are finally back. I’m looking at the bright side. He’s not writing JSA which I am extremely pumped for.
I guess we can see now why Bendis aged up Jon. He’ll most likely be on the new LoS team.
I'm thinking Jon and Supergirl will both be members at least for a time. Possibly even Naomi.
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While I'm not crazy about any of the redesigns at this point, the only thing that bothers me is Garth's hair. Aside from being too similar to Rokk, it's just waack-a-doodle.
Although if soulpatch turns out to be Timberwolf or Ultra Boy I will be upset by that.
As long as Timber Wolf is far away from looking like 'Furball' and Sensor Girl/Projectra isn't a snake, I'll be good.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
I hope we see XS, Karate Kid, Dreamgirl, Ultra Boy, Kid Quantum, Microlad or Starboy
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Reading List (Super behind but reading them nonetheless):
DC: Currently figuring that out
Marvel: Read above
Image: Killadelphia, Nightmare Blog
Other: The Antagonist, Something is Killing the Children, Avatar: TLAB
Manga: My Hero Academia, MHA: Vigilanties, Soul Eater: the Perfect Edition, Berserk, Hunter X Hunter, Witch Hat Atelier, Kaiju No. 8
I still don't really get why the founding three all needed to have short, weird, hair.
I wonder if it was coincidental or intentional.
I'm going to be a little miffed if Dream Girl doesn't have the leotard, politically incorrect as it is in this modern era of Superhero costumes .
My picks:
9. Phantom Girl
10. Starboy
11. Mon-El
12. Dream Girl
13. Dawnstar
14. Kid Quantum
15. XS
16. White Witch
17. Blok
18. Night Girl
19. Karate Kid II
20. Invisible Kid II
21. Tyroc
22. Ultra Boy (or Timber Wolf, if #8 is Ultra Boy)
23. Supergirl
24. Sun Boy
25. Light Lass
26. Shrinking Violet
27. Dragonwing
28. Polar Boy
29. Sensor Girl/Projectra
30. Gates
31. Colossal Boy
32. Element Lad
33. Gear
34. Comet Queen
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.