Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! The legion got massively slighted

The website ComiX-Fan recently did a bunch of Best of DC type lists for DC seventieth anniversary and proceeded to entirely exclude the legion!

On their top seventy DC characters list you'd think there would be a Saturn Girl or Braniac 5 or Mon-el included in there somewhere. Nope!

Surely, say Ferro Lad's classic death at least deserves to be mentioned on their DC greatest moments list or DC greatest deaths. Apparently not!

But surely, you're thinking, the legion has to mentioned on their Top Ten DC teams list! There's no way they could have left them off that...you guessed wrong. Bizarrely, such teams as Halo Inc, the Suicide Squad, The Birds of Prey, the league of extroadinary gentlemen and the Invisibles were considered more deserving of top ten status than The Legion!

And just to rub salt in the wounds of all legion fans, their article on the history of DC completely fails to mention the legion whatsoever.

I know these sorts of lists are subjective but really, when people slight my beloved legion like this I get very angry

You can read the entire thing here:
http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=32203

this just makes me think these people are idiots.

or ignorants...

Well, I respect their right to their opinion but they need to phrase it as such. They make it seem that they held a vote and no one voted for the Legion. That's just not true. They had their 'staff' come up with their favorites and presented it as a Top 10 list. No different than the way supposed comic mags *cough*Wizard*cough* do their lists.

We could get the same results throwing darts at a poster of teams and it would make as much sense and hold as much scientific merrit.

what do you expect of a website that was totally dedicated to the X-Men until a few years ago....

This sentence is the power ownage equivelent of a Ford F-150 supercab driving up over top a 1980 Renault Alliance compact.

As a fellow Legion fan I agree. It's a travesty. And teams like the Suicide Squad for example are far less important historically than the Legion. But...lets be realistic here, sadly the LSH hasn't been an important franchise since the mid-to-late eighties, that's getting on for 20 years now..(the thought of which shocks me because it seems like about five years ago to me!)

To most Marvel/flavour of the month fanboys, the Legion isn't on their radar. The Legion is a minority fandom. The days when it was one of the great pillars of the DCU are long long gone. To people who are obsessed with the X Men and Spiderman and basketball chested 'bad girls' the Legion and its fandom is a joke. I've often noticed the mentality that hey they may be nerds who are mocked by the rich kids but Legion fans are the lowest of the low that even they are superior to! They aren't pathetic geeks like Legion fans!

The legion and legion fandom is actually pretty despised in mainstream comic fandom. There's the perception that we are sad obsessives propping up a dying franchise and obsessing about one panel in 1963..

Of course their beloved X Men is equally continuity and history dense, and most of them are ignorant of the X-men's historical connection to the Legion but hey that kind of fan won't let facts get in the way of a smug prejudice.

Legion fandom is the red headed stepchild of comic fandoms I am afraid. Hopefully this will change with the new series, but that's been it for the most part for the last few years, so I'm not surprised the legion was slighted.

They're STUPID! ALL of them, STUPID!!!

*tee hee!* There I go, obsessing about one panel from 1963 again...

Excuse me, Infectious Drura and MMLASH, but I'm unfamiliar with the allegedly much obsessed upon panel from 1963. What does this controversial panel depict, exactly? Just wondering.

Actually, Lester appeared first in 1962 not 1963:

Jillikers! 1962?!? Things that happened back then were STUPID! ALL OF IT, stupid! STUPID!!!!

For real real, not for play play-- LSH fans might be the most loathed of fans in Comic Book Fandom, but it's safe to say that none of us suffer from short-term memory loss!

And y'know what? Why was Lu colored as if she were from Talok VIII in that panel?

It's just shadow, Lash. Note that her clothes are the exact same color as her flesh. Even Shady knew enough not to clash blues.

It's because the mere presence of Spiffany chilled her to the bone. Even her clothes knew something was wrong.

I betcha in his ire at being looked down upon by Cosmic Boy, he retaliated by shooting Luornu with a paint ray that temporarily turned her blue!

Unfortunately, chemicals in the paint seeped into her skin and damaged her brain, making her think that splitting into triplicate would somehow overcome a giant intelligent killer robot.

In short: Lester Spiffany murdered Triplicate Girl!

Good Lord! Lester predates the Fantastic Four!

He's like, historical and stuff!

Actually, wasn't the FF's first appearance iin the Fall of '61?

It's okay, Lashie... he still predates the Avengers and the X-Men(cover-dated September '63)!

Lester's OLD.

Well, so's his money, so it's OK.

The complete omission of the Legion isn't the only problem with ComiX-Fan's lists. Those things are utterly ridiculous. Whoever compiled them knows nothing whatsoever about DC comics before 1985, and not much more about DC comics after that date. The Filth #10 is the tenth best DC cover of all time-- what the hell?

This is probably the only time I'll ever say this, but Wizard could have done a better job.

FF's #1 had a cover date of November 1961.

So now, at long, long last, I can finally put a face to the name of Lester Spifanny. Thanks, guys!

You know what? He does look kind of spiffy! Maybe the Legion should have accepted him for marketing purposes alone.

The only good reason for lists to exist is to spark conversation.

I've seen lists I've mostly agreed with, and lists I've mostly disagreed with, but I don't think there's any such thing as a "definitive" list of this type.