The 10 fingers comment he made refers to Shady obviously--probably to do with some of the continuity changes that were made.
And not only Levitz/Giffen but Jim Sherman might be coming back too! Wow!!
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Failed couple: could be Ayla/Vi, or Ayla/Brin, or Cos/Night Girl. i like the artist. he's clearly newish and finding his style but i see a lot of potential. also his simple take on faces leaves the age up to interpretation. some artists have drawn the legion too old and grizzled. i REALLY dislike the costumes.(except Cos's) i noticed Cosmic Boy has one orb smaller than the other four on his chest. it's repeated in the group shot. wonder what that's about. maybe it's missing... a tribute to Pol? Levitz didn't mention the Ardeen-Ranzz babies. he mentions Xs. i realize that the Tornado Twins (Dawn Allen is her mom) are still alive in this Earth and same age as the legionnaires. i hope he touches on this.
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Also just want to point out that artwork shown isn't a poster or a cover but appears to be a page from one of the story interiors. So it naturally won't include a lot of Legionnaires.
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Somebody's planet is going to be destroyed, huh?
Didn't we lose Orando in threeboot? And Vulcan in the last Star Trek movie?
Apparently, destroying planets is the modern day version of upping the ante.
I'm glad that Levitz is returning to the Legion, and some of his ideas sound intriguing--particularly xenophobia as something human beings never really shake. But in the era of the $3.99 comic book, it's going to take a lot to pull me back in as a reader.
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here's the artist's webpage. looks good! more dynamic than i was expecting. http://www.yildiraycinar.net/ i'm glad he doesn't have an "Image" style and also is not too tight like a lot of artists they put on futuristic books.
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Sometimes the universe produces good news just when you need it. I've learned that my interest in comics in general is pretty closely tied to the publication of a good Legion comic. As a result, the past year I've found it harder and harder to trek to the comic book store and fork over ridiculous sums of money. The last week I was seriously considering chucking the whole thing. And then this happens. No pressure, Levitz, but my comic reading future, and DC's continued revenue from ME, rest entirely on your nebbishy shoulders. Do NOT disappoint me!
The IO9 article is a must read. Levitz just gives wonderful interviews -- without spoiling anything major, he conveys a thoughtfulness and insight that few of his "peers" manage (DiDio!).
It's so interesting that Paul has latched onto Earth Man. On the one hand, I worry that Paul is repeating his pattern of doing variations on existing themes rather than striking out into new creative territory. On the other hand, maybe it only makes sense to include a character that recent readers will recognize, especially if you have a good story to tell about him.
Random speculation time:
During the 80s, Shadow Lass cut off a finger to symbolize her "marriage" to Mon-El. She clearly has all her fingers now (as Levitz himself emphasizes in the IO9 interview). Did the marriage never happen? Or is it over? How do Talokians regrow fingers? Mitigating against this is the fact that we saw Shady and Mon together (at least working together in their old familiar way) during FC: Lo3W, when they went to rouse Sodom Yat on Oa. I agree we don't seem to have seen Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy together, so maybe that relationship is over? I honestly can't remember, did they marry during Levitz's last run? Were they ever married in the original Legion? And with Tyroc back, I now agree the homeworld destroyed might in fact be his!
whose work looks really exciting. Wow. I'm almost in good mood now, and for me, in the 2nd week of January in Chicago, that's saying something.
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Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy nearly got married during the Five Year Gap, but she was supposedly killed instead.
Tyroc was from Marzal, an island, not a planet--unless this has been retconned or changed over the years.
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Wasn't Marzal given some sort of Brigadoon status? Also, maybe in the intervening years, Marzal relocated to an actual planet?
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quote:Originally posted by doublechinner: Wasn't Marzal given some sort of Brigadoon status? Also, maybe in the intervening years, Marzal relocated to an actual planet?
Marzal shifted periodically into another dimension, a la Brigadoon, but it was still an island.
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