Comments on: Review: Legion of Super-Heroes #44

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:22:58 +0000

In my case, I had no hope that Jim Shooter would be able to “fix” the Legion, but I admit a bias against his work. The first taste of his work I got was “Secret Wars” back in the day, and I remember being disdainful of his work when I was 14.

Geoff Johns’s Legion gives me hope for the characters and the franchise, but also concern because I feel he’s one of the only things DC’s got going for it. Gail’s Wonder Woman so far has proved underwhelming. Trinity is making me yawn. Final Crisis is stirring more anger than positive hype. And based on the JSA Annual (review anyone? :) ), I am beginning to wonder if Johns is spreading himself too thin.

Screw reboot Legions. Long live the Silver Age Legion.

(But the cover sure was cool, wasn’t it?)

By: Katzedecimal

Katzedecimal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:58:05 +0000

I was hoping that Shooter would breathe some life into the Threeboot characters and he’s done so to some degree. Brainiac 5 is finally starting to get *something* vaguely remniscent of a personality (beyond “total piece of Charmin”) and this is easily the best version of Chameleon ever. But the whole MASH run has struck me as “limping along, trying to staunch the heavy bleeding without much success.” MightyGodKing pretty much pegged it when he greeted the start of the MASH run with “Reboot in T-25 Issues” :-P

I would have agreed with Baal’s sentiment, but then I saw Geoff Johns’s “Superman and the Legion of Superheroes.” Johns breathed fresh life into the characters, with vibrant, distinctive personalities that really haven’t been seen since the 70s (although there was that brief time with the Batch SW6 Legionnaires that came pretty darned close.)

By: Baal

Baal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:51:34 +0000

I think it’s time to accept that the days of the Legion as a successful ongoing in ANY incarantion are over. Long Live my Legion memories…

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:19:41 +0000

With the Legion hiring Lawyers and PR firms, I guess the whole “youth movement” and “everyone is a Legionairre” bit is officially over.

By: Randallw

Randallw — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:24:47 +0000

I’ll be a little dissapointed if the current title is rebooted. I know it’s not exactly new or anything, I’ve had it since the start. Now it may be my problem, I have a bad memory, but I can’t recall anything big ever happening. I know there was some big thing awhile back with that guy who couldn’t be seen, or detected, but now it feels like it never really exploded. Sure stuff happened from issue to issue, but it never felt like I had to get the next issue for the big ending. Things would just drag on for awhile till suddenly it stopped…oh wait there was the Dominators and Supergirl, problem though was I resented Supergirl being there. It just felt like she was thrown in, perhaps to get more readers, but she was never Legion to me. I was waiting issue by issue for her to leave. My interest in the Legion was from old bw reprints I got when I was a kid, and when it rebooted I decided to jump on. As I said I know it’s not exactly a new title, but nothing has really ever happened and if it reboots again I’ll wonder, why did I bother with an era that got dumped?

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:42:05 +0000

I just have to say that you do great comic book reviews. And as for as Legion knowledge, I don’t know many who could match you. But I have to agree to disagree with your analysis on the MASH (Manapul and Shooter Handled) run on the Legion.

They have given this title some new life and you are not giving it a chance. Maybe because you’re an old Legion fan, or maybe not, I think this book, or any comic book for that, needs to be critiqued in an unbiased fashioned. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all iterations of the Legion and am excited as hell for Legion of 3 Worlds. If anything, Geoff Johns has been stated that there isn’t going to be a reboot per se as the original Legion future is the future of New Earth (Earth-1).

Just saying give this book some true value. BTW, your Hero Histories are amazingly thorough! Got almost choked up with the Monstress HH.

By: Bean525

Bean525 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:23:57 +0000

It’s pretty sad that I’ve had this issue for two weeks and I’ve yet to open it. I really wanted to like this run on Legion, and it seems things may be turning around. It’s good to know at least some of the meandering is over. I hope that somehow Legion of Three Worlds lets all incarnations of the Legion exist, maybe in separate Earth futures (Please please bring back Post-ZH LSH, DC!). If they don’t do that, then I guess they don’t want to leave this version of the LSH floating in space when they get erased.