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oh yeah I remember that one - S/LSH #213. Yeah, Geoff said that 'BAD ASS Night Girl..." so I was like whoa allright about time as it should be better than that one way back in Grell time.
From: Hayward, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Actually it was in #212. And what was wrong with it? It was just an 8 page back-up story. The only thing I didn't like was Night Girl's "costume".
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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Everybody? Almost everybody? Oh, God, I'm having shivers down my spine and it's not because it's cold. I think I've died and gone to heaven like Ultra Jorge...
From: Somewhere in the Multiverse | Registered: Apr 2006
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Geoff Johns gives another interview at IGN, and makes a clearer statement about what continuity the Lightning Saga/Action Legion includes.
quote:"The good thing is that you can pick up Adventure Comics #300 and that happened. You can pick up any Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes story and that happened. You can pick up the new trade coming out that Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen did, and that happened. All those are back-stories, so if you want to read them, the stories are there. Really, we're sticking with everything that happened up through Crisis on Infinite Earths."
Johns calls Waid/Shooter Legion the "modern day version", which again begs the question why the modern day Superman has a past with the unmodern Legion of Earth 1 -- or what's passing for it in this story. The more I read about this arc, the more convinced I am of its dishonest and manipulative intent, and dread it all the more.
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Why is it dishonest and manipulative to bring back all that "lost" continuity along with the possibility of new stories - possibly a new title? - that will honor this vast part of Legion history which includes everything that made the Legion great in the past?
Otoh, I don't exactly like the phrase "up through Crisis on Infinite Earths" because it seems to suggest that everything that happened after CoIE will be "out of continuity/never happened" which also suggests that another fairly vast part of Legion history will "not have happened".
This latter part may not be my favorite Legion era(s) but"doing away" with it is somehow like cheating all the fans who love that/those eras.
I'm ecstatic with the prospect of seeing "that" Legion, the one I grew up with, be a living part of the DCU again, more than ecstatic really, but I don't feel comfortable at all with eliminating other people's favorite Legion eras (which had their good points, and they ARE the Legion anyway).
Let's hope that what with multiple versions of the Legion floating around, every Legion era will be honored in one way or another.
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From: Somewhere in the Multiverse | Registered: Apr 2006
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Reading the above Johns statement makes me.... happy.
Oh my, to get all those stories back...
Those stories up to COIE (which is way into the baxter series, if I recall correctly) are part of my childhood, loved those when I grew up, painted my Playmobil toys in Legion colours, read the few books that were translated into German over and over and over again. To bring them back after ruthlessly erasing all of them 14 years ago gives me a lot of satisfaction, and even though my ALSO beloved 5YL era has to go, I'll gladly trade that one for the basis of Legion of Super-Heroes returning to the DCU. KUDOS! (still not believing it until I see if, of course )
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I tried to read the Johns interviews, but I hardly can so so cause I'm so excited I stop reading it in the right order and start combing through it, trying to find important key words... thus eliminating the chance of getting all the information, but hey, I'm a fan, so sue me
From: Bamberg, Germany | Registered: Feb 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Chemical King: I tried to read the Johns interviews, but I hardly can so so cause I'm so excited I stop reading it in the right order and start combing through it, trying to find important key words... thus eliminating the chance of getting all the information, but hey, I'm a fan, so sue me
Funny, that was my reaction as well. Can't wait. And I am also a fan of the 5YL era, but like you, I'm OK to see it go if we get to see something like the Levitz Legion. Even if it has to be a modified version. If we are being manipulated, well, it's OK with me.
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