Legion of Three Worlds

[khaosworks]

By way of The Legion Omnicom, an announcement on Newsarama:

We’ve been told that DC’s upcoming Final Crisis spans the past, present and future of the DC Universe.

With today’s Action Comics #863, part of that “future” has been previewed in a teaser image that confirms a team-up fans have been speculating about – writer Geoff Johns and artist George Perez will unite to tell the story of a multiverse-spanning 31st century battle in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds beginning in August.

One of the two promised DC mini-series that will tie directly into Final Crisis, the Legion of 3 Worlds story will pull together the characters from three teams that have called themselves Legion of Super-Heroes during DC’s publishing history. And if we go by the teaser image, a slew of Perez-drawn Legion members will be fighting alongside Superman against a villainous threat in the future that will include a couple threats from the present as well – Superman-Prime and… is that Lex Luthor?

After wrapping up the Sinestro Corps War just a few months ago, it hasn’t taken Johns long to start writing another epic storyline, this one in five oversized issues that will tie into the Final Crisis story writer Grant Morrison is telling with artist J.G. Jones this summer. And it won’t surprise readers of Johns’ monthly comics that these issues will feature members of the original Legion, which Johns helped re-introduce to the DCU last year in a crossover between his Justice Society of America title with Justice League of America, then used in the current Action Comics story.

But three Legions? All together and all part of the DCU? What happened to the reboots where one Legion replaced the other? And for those readers who’ve never read any Legion stories, what do they have to know to understand this series? And what is Lex Luthor doing in that picture? Newsarama talked to Geoff Johns in a two-part interview to find out the answers to these questions and more…

More at the Newsarama page. Also, preview pages here and here.

I admit, and purely because at heart I am and always have been, and always will be, incredibly sappy and sentimental and militant about the Legion (and which Legion fan isn't? Really, as a fandom, we're scary - ask anybody), I'm quite stoked about this. Because. IT'S THE FRICKIN' LEGION! THE PRE-CRISIS LEGION! AND THE ZERO HOUR LEGION! AND THE REBOOT LEGION! AND THE TIME TRAPPER! AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-VILLAINS! AND GEORGE PEREZ!

Oh yeah, and Superboyman-Prime. Whatever.

Anyway, insert obligatory squee, and a quiet prayer that they don't screw this up.