Legion of Super Heroes Five Years Later Reviews

[caj]

Similar to my L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 thread, I thought I might share the Legion of Super Bloggers reviews of the 5 Years Later Legion that began about six years ago.

For those who have never read it, I hope it will pique your interest. For those of you who did read it, I hope it's good nostalgia. If there's interest, I'll try to do all 38 issues with Giffen as writer.

Legion of Super Bloggers review of issue #1 - Five years after the mystic war, the Legion is disbanded and the universe is a much darker place. But two former Legionnaires consider putting it back together.

http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspo...-heroes-1.html

[caj]

Legion of Super Bloggers review of issue #2 - Recruiting for the new Legion begins with former Ultra Boy Jo Nah, who returned to his home planet Rimbor after a devastating loss.

http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspo...-heroes-2.html

[caj]

Legion of Super Bloggers review of issue #3 - The Legionnaire you thought was dead...isn't. And the one you thought would live forever...doesn't.

http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspo...-heroes-3.html

[caj]

Legion of Super Bloggers review of issue #4 - Mon-El is alive - and discovers his connection to the Time Trapper goes deeper than he ever could have imagined.

http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspo...-heroes-4.html

[Jim Kelly]

You piqued my interest. For me these first four issues, as strange and offputting as they were, still were part of the old Legion run. They should have just tacked these four issues onto that old run as a kind of epilogue. The next issue and thereafter is in another continuity, so that's the actual first issue of this new Legion. To call it five years later is a misnomer, given issue 5 is not in the same timeline, so it's not really five years later at all.

[caj]

You piqued my interest. For me these first four issues, as strange and offputting as they were, still were part of the old Legion run. They should have just tacked these four issues onto that old run as a kind of epilogue. The next issue and thereafter is in another continuity, so that's the actual first issue of this new Legion. To call it five years later is a misnomer, given issue 5 is not in the same timeline, so it's not really five years later at all.

I see your correction to my spelling/grammar and it's corrected in the OP. Thanks.

Yeah, I was hoping for more discussion on here. Not sure if too many people are really interested in the Legion right now. I thought since the omnibus was about to be released, it might be a good time to do this.

I'll post a few more issues. If there's not much interest, I'll stop. No sense in continually bumping a thread that isn't really wanted.

[Tony]

I had problems getting into this run the first year, but I think it was issue 11 that it clicked and after a quick reread it was at the top of my read pile until Giffen left. It's a really great run, grabbed the first issue and waiting for a sale to buy the rest in digital to see how it holds up.

[kcekada]

You piqued my interest. For me these first four issues, as strange and offputting as they were, still were part of the old Legion run. They should have just tacked these four issues onto that old run as a kind of epilogue. The next issue and thereafter is in another continuity, so that's the actual first issue of this new Legion. To call it five years later is a misnomer, given issue 5 is not in the same timeline, so it's not really five years later at all.

Maybe had they known that the asshats in the Superman office would whine about Legion using Superman elements, they could have built up to the reset. But they didn't know -- and had basically one issue to change everything. They did the best they could. I'll never know why Paul Levitz let this happen -- being that he was the publisher at the time. The pocket universe Superboy was a nice fix --- and didn't effect Superman's books.

There is a great article in a recent copy of Back Issue discussing this run -- and why it was ultimately ended. I think, though, that continuity was not the biggest problem. People jsut got tired of the dark take on the Legion. Once they blew up the Earth, the fat lady was singing.

[0nt1r]

The Superman editors forced that change. I wish they’d done an arc, rather than an issue, in the magic world; really exploring it. With that they could’ve brought in Captain Marvel, Jr., a magic based character who can time-travel, and could’ve taken Superboy’s place, sometimes bringing Mary to the future, in Supergirl’s place, and restoring continuity with those slight alterations.

[0nt1r]

This is, for my money, the best and boldest run of any mainstream comic, to date. I’ll always lament the powers that be d😱ing with it, as they did.