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Originally posted by MLLASH:
Barry Kitson is a class act. It's great to see you still here even after your run ended.
What are the chances DC can lure you onboard with Bedard as co-writer and penciller of the all-new all-now dot-Legion? I think that's just what it needs, what would push it over the edge and get folks REALLY excited! As far as I know, Barry is a Marvel exclusive these days. But we could always ask: who would you, Barry, like to see drawing L.E.G.I.O.N.? Particularly, I would like to see someone with a more realistical bend, in the veins of Greg Land. Or Pete Woods.
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You guys are all too kind! I would LOVE to have been involved in a relaunch of L.E.G.I.O.N.!!!! Which may be why DC waited until I was exclusive at Marvel before doing it!  I have been dropping in regularly on Legion world ever since the run ended and trying to keep in touch with as many folks as possible. I just don't like to comment too much on others people's work in public. Always happy to answer any questions about my own though  Feel free to email me any time too either via this site or my own. I am always happy to hear from Legionworlders!!!
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Originally posted by Barry Kitson:
in our LSH/DCU he would have discovered that retrogressive time travel wasn't possible - you could go back to a timeline after you left it, but never back to the same future you had visited each return to the past would set up an alternate future and that was how we would have encountered alternate legions including Dawnstar, Tyroc etc with some characters crossing between alternate 'nows' but never able to change them. Of course all of this was postulated before DC decided to bring back time travel, have another infinite crisis etc.
It was also tied into how we would explain the LSH being based on DC comics as someone travelling back told the past of the LSH which then instead of creating the LSH exactly as was created a new timeline with our LSH in it. Theoretically we may have met the original LSH and exchanged a member or two - but it would have been a one off climactic event and probably envisioned as the end of our run on the book. Leaving the next team with their pick of the best of both to set up their stories with.
Probably Dream Girl's ultimate fate and/or death would have played into these quantum possiblities too - as whether she was alive or dead being a kind of existential Shrodinger's Cat I've felt for a long a time that a real problem with the DC Universe is its concept of time. Back in Pre-Crisis days, there were multiple earths, but these weren't like the Many Worlds of quantum physics. They weren't divergent, but parallel. Each had rigid predestination. Even after the Crisis, DC seemed set on the idea that there had to be one real future. I just wished that DC had been able to accept (in-story; the editors and writers seem to like changing it) that the future isn't fixed. One thing I did like about your run as it happened, though, was that (even with Supergirl) it didn't spend much time explaining how it was connected to the DC Universe - or any previous version of Legion history. Originally posted by Ricardo:
Wow, much different from what the book was about, I guess. So, once again, Legion seemed to suffer from editorial decisions off the bat that toyed with time travel.
I can see it would be a much headier game then it actually became - and thus why sometimes it seemed that the book was sort of going through the motions (the fill-in artists didn't help much to show unity). I agree with all of that. Headier, yes. I don't know if better.
Tom Strong, on nostalgia: "I suppose it's a ready substitute for genuine feeling."
- Tom Strong #6, Alan Moore
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Barry, I just want to chime in with those who are praising your work on dot-LEGION. To date, it's my very favorite work that you've been involved with, as well as one of the most enjoyable comic book runs for me period.
What isn't said very much is that I also enjoyed those issues that you scripted solo. If I'm remembering this right, you scripted most of the issues in the forties before bringing Mark aboard to co-write. I remember there being some criticism of your solo-scripted issues, but I thought they were really good!
I hope we'll get to see you put your stamp on something longterm again as you did with L.E.G.I.O.N. I know that's what was intended with LSH and probably The Order.
So best wishes, and I hope we'll get to see more writing and co-writing from you to go along with those gorgeous pencils!
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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Thanks Lard Lad!
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Originally posted by Ricardo: Originally posted by Barry Kitson: [b] Well it may turn out to be now...but it just wasn't where we thought we were going No worries about reading which ever books you like - I'll just hope I can tempt you back to reading something I work on someday in the future!
Well, I am actually getting Empire TP now...
cheers[/b]It's the most underappreciated title I know. Think I'll dig mine out of its hermetically sealed vault and re-read it.
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Barry, I just wanted to say that I think you drew the BEST Dream Girl we have ever or will ever see!!!
Miss you lots...
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