Silverage Superman can time travel on his own violation and with legion ring
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!
Last edited by KangMiRae; 10-16-2019 at 10:55 AM.
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.
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.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
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?
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
"There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.
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?
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.