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Legion of Three Worlds
Apr. 3rd, 2008 12:27 pmBy way of The Legion Omnicom, an announcement on Newsarama:
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.
We’ve been told that DC’s upcoming Final Crisis spans the past, present and future of the DC Universe.More at the Newsarama page. Also, preview pages here and here.
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…
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 Super
Anyway, insert obligatory squee, and a quiet prayer that they don't screw this up.
You know you're playing too much World of Warcraft (or MMORPGs, really) when you're watching the Legion of Super-Heroes take on the Sun Eater (in "Sundown", parts 1 and 2) and translating it into raiding terms.
Legion of Super-Heroes 1x03: Legacy
Oct. 8th, 2006 06:46 pmThe Easter eggs keep coming up fast and furious in this one.
( spoilery comments about LSH 1x03. )
On the non-spoilery side, I can only express slack-jawed amazement at how awesome the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica was, how much I enjoyed seeing the return of Veronica Mars, and how I'm looking forward to see where Heroes is going to go.
Also, this week's episode of South Park, "Make Love Not Warcraft" was particularly close to my geeky heart. I don't even mind the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in gameplay, it was so hilarious. They should do more of these things.
Shaping up to be an enjoyable new Fall TV season... at least for the shows I follow.
( spoilery comments about LSH 1x03. )
On the non-spoilery side, I can only express slack-jawed amazement at how awesome the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica was, how much I enjoyed seeing the return of Veronica Mars, and how I'm looking forward to see where Heroes is going to go.
Also, this week's episode of South Park, "Make Love Not Warcraft" was particularly close to my geeky heart. I don't even mind the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in gameplay, it was so hilarious. They should do more of these things.
Shaping up to be an enjoyable new Fall TV season... at least for the shows I follow.
Once a Legionnaire
Oct. 1st, 2006 10:03 amFinally got around to watching the first episode the new Legion of Super-Heroes animated series. I have to confess that I didn't go into the show unbiased: I am a big fan not just of the Silver Age Legion in the comics (before Tom and Mary Bierbaum got their greasy little hands on it)[1] but also of the animated series universe that Paul Dini and Bruce Timm put together. Sure, the Legion has had reboots before, and in particular the Waid reboots have been very good, but without a connection to the earlier animated shows, I believed it would suck.
I'm glad to say that James Tucker et al. have proven me wrong. They knew which of my fanboy buttons to push, and seriously, the moment they got me was during the title sequence when you see the classic Legionnaire symbols Giffen and Levitz came up with in the 80s streaming by on the mission monitor board. I'm such a sap.
Some people may have issues with the redesigns of the Fatal Five or the Legion themselves, but as long as the spirit of the Legion that drew me to those books over twenty years ago — that of young people with remarkable abilities banding together to serve a higher ideal, something greater than themselves — comes through, I'm going to be pretty happy. Still, the Science Police designs are obvious descendants of the Levitz/Giffen era, Legion HQ is an updated version of the post-rocketship HQ, and I was chuffed to recognise various alien species from the Silver Age in the crowd scenes of New Metropolis (a female Xudarian, i.e. from Tomar-Re's race and one of those gem-shaped guys from Barrio III... Chaselon was the name of their Green Lantern champion). I can so tell that the producers are from the same comic-reading generation I am.
Oddly enough, the one thing I don't feel that comfortable about is Superboyman. Marketing I understand, but given the Boy/Lad/Girl names, Superman as a code name is pretty incongruous. Also, I hope that the series moves away from him as a focus eventually. Clark's a nice guy, but he's not why I'm buying the ticket.
Looking forward to the rest. Now, if I can only get my flight ring off my now-too-fat finger...
1. Yes, I can tell you all their real names, and the planets they are from, and given a bit of prompting, in which order they joined and who was leader at what time. And I still have my replica flight ring.
I'm glad to say that James Tucker et al. have proven me wrong. They knew which of my fanboy buttons to push, and seriously, the moment they got me was during the title sequence when you see the classic Legionnaire symbols Giffen and Levitz came up with in the 80s streaming by on the mission monitor board. I'm such a sap.
Some people may have issues with the redesigns of the Fatal Five or the Legion themselves, but as long as the spirit of the Legion that drew me to those books over twenty years ago — that of young people with remarkable abilities banding together to serve a higher ideal, something greater than themselves — comes through, I'm going to be pretty happy. Still, the Science Police designs are obvious descendants of the Levitz/Giffen era, Legion HQ is an updated version of the post-rocketship HQ, and I was chuffed to recognise various alien species from the Silver Age in the crowd scenes of New Metropolis (a female Xudarian, i.e. from Tomar-Re's race and one of those gem-shaped guys from Barrio III... Chaselon was the name of their Green Lantern champion). I can so tell that the producers are from the same comic-reading generation I am.
Oddly enough, the one thing I don't feel that comfortable about is Super
Looking forward to the rest. Now, if I can only get my flight ring off my now-too-fat finger...
1. Yes, I can tell you all their real names, and the planets they are from, and given a bit of prompting, in which order they joined and who was leader at what time. And I still have my replica flight ring.
