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Awesome Giffen cover! So what is Color Kid a girl now/ I seem to remember something about him having some gender-reversal virus or something once but don't remember when or where. And Grell too! Awesome!
As to Set's question about this being sloppy writing. I don't think so, I think there's a lot to yet be revealed. I'm really not familiar with the writer (I do know who he is but don't know that I've read his work) but so far, the story seems fairly complex. I am assuming Brainy sent the message-bot to the "present"before he was interred, escaped and became the computer tyrant of colu. I'm not sure how long this run is supposed to last but I'm thinking it's not just a 3-4 issue thing. At leat I hope.
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quote:Originally posted by Uranus Lad: Awesome Giffen cover! So what is Color Kid a girl now/ I seem to remember something about him having some gender-reversal virus or something once but don't remember when or where.
I believe that is supposed to be Rainbow Girl, who was a Legion reject preboot, but never joined the Subs then. That is a close variation of her costume anyway. You are correct that Color Kid did turn into a woman once (in the Legion of Subs special where Infectious Lass' out of control powers caused it to happen).
And for the record, I like Keith's take on Fire Lad! And the Grell cover looks great too!! Lots of Legiony goodness!
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Who's that Dawny's holding? And I wish Giffen was doing the interiors as well...
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"“When Superman was growing up, he had no friends and finally he got some friends that he could relate too. That’s the coolest thing about the original Legion. But once our Legion arc run is up, it’s not the end of the Legion,” said Johns.
“The entire purpose of this arc is really to introduce the Legion to someone who has never heard of it. And show why they are so important to Superman. That’s why this Legion story works because of their connection to Superman and Superman’s connection to them. There is a really special connection that makes Superman, Superman. He wasn’t Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. Even though he was an outsider, he had friends, friends who were beyond anything that he ever could have imagined. They were just like him. They were aliens, who looked like him, who came to Earth."
So more Legion, eh?
-------------------- Ze Frainch Legion fan
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Wow, that alternate cover art looks totally Kirby-esque!
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quote:Originally posted by Pariscub: From Geoff's Johns interview on CBR
"“When Superman was growing up, he had no friends and finally he got some friends that he could relate too. That’s the coolest thing about the original Legion. But once our Legion arc run is up, it’s not the end of the Legion,” said Johns.
“The entire purpose of this arc is really to introduce the Legion to someone who has never heard of it. And show why they are so important to Superman. That’s why this Legion story works because of their connection to Superman and Superman’s connection to them. There is a really special connection that makes Superman, Superman. He wasn’t Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. Even though he was an outsider, he had friends, friends who were beyond anything that he ever could have imagined. They were just like him. They were aliens, who looked like him, who came to Earth."
So more Legion, eh?
Oh, so that's not the end of the Legion? Gee, maybe DC can start up a regular series for the Legion. Maybe they could bring back Jim Shooter to write it--I wonder what he's doing these days? Or, if they want to be really ambitious, they could give the Legion their own TV show, and put out a comic based on the TV show! Wow, I'm so glad Geoff Johns has finally started writing Legion comics again, after all those years with none at all.
I kid. A little.
Actually, the veiled and vaguely-hinted-at assumption in that article that there have been no Legion comics published since about '86 is not the thing that annoyed me about that interview. The thing that annoyed me? It's 'Brainiac', not 'Braniac'. Because he has brains, not cereal.
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quote:Originally posted by Matthew E: It's 'Brainiac', not 'Braniac'. Because he has brains, not cereal.
Gosh, it's a good thing we had Braniac here! Without his powers of Super-Regularity, we might have been trapped in this Space-Bathroom all night!
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Those variants are really great. Though... is this really Giffens art? Has he changed his style of drawing YET AGAIN? Where have the winderfully chunky faces gone to?
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looks like Al Milgrom is inking the Giffen cover? Very interesting. My recollections of Milgrom are that he always worked in a thick-lined, cartoony style. Not a bad thing, necessarily. Looks like Keith and/or Al is trying to channel his inner Kirby and Cooke.
Funny, when I first saw the unmagnified preview of this cover, I thought it was by Byrne, and I got all indignant: how dare they let Byrne do a Legion nostalgia cover. Funny that it was Giffen actually Giffen.
I imagine the editorials powers might have preferred a more "classic" Legion Giffen cover, but this one really is quite awesome. The use of the bad guys as the foreground framing mixed in with high tech, high-relief detritus is pure Kirby/Cooke goodness.
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Is that Giffen cover a homage to another cover from somewhere? Maybe that early v.5 Venado Bay cover or something? I swear it looks totally familiar.
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quote:Originally posted by Pariscub: From Geoff's Johns interview on CBR
"“When Superman was growing up, he had no friends and finally he got some friends that he could relate too. That’s the coolest thing about the original Legion. But once our Legion arc run is up, it’s not the end of the Legion,” said Johns.
“The entire purpose of this arc is really to introduce the Legion to someone who has never heard of it. And show why they are so important to Superman. That’s why this Legion story works because of their connection to Superman and Superman’s connection to them. There is a really special connection that makes Superman, Superman. He wasn’t Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. Even though he was an outsider, he had friends, friends who were beyond anything that he ever could have imagined. They were just like him. They were aliens, who looked like him, who came to Earth."
So more Legion, eh?
Oh, so that's not the end of the Legion? Gee, maybe DC can start up a regular series for the Legion. Maybe they could bring back Jim Shooter to write it--I wonder what he's doing these days? Or, if they want to be really ambitious, they could give the Legion their own TV show, and put out a comic based on the TV show! Wow, I'm so glad Geoff Johns has finally started writing Legion comics again, after all those years with none at all.
I kid. A little.
Actually, the veiled and vaguely-hinted-at assumption in that article that there have been no Legion comics published since about '86 is not the thing that annoyed me about that interview. The thing that annoyed me? It's 'Brainiac', not 'Braniac'. Because he has brains, not cereal.
My, someone got out on the wrong side of the bed this morning
-------------------- Ze Frainch Legion fan
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