Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! New LSH TPB?!?

Was bouncing around the comic websites and ran across interesting news from LYING IN THE GUTTERS. According to Rich Johnston's source, there's a Legion of Super-Heroes TP coming out in 01 December 05 called "A New Rebellion" with Mark Waid as an author.

Has anyone ever heard of this or confirmed if its true? Supposedly the solicit came from a listing in Amazon.

It would be great if they can trade 1-12 for $14.99 or somesuch with extras, kinda like the way they price the Johns Teen Titans TPs. Pricing it at that seems impossible given that we already get a freebie for the additional pages. If not, then fewer issues with some extra bonus material...Barry's sketches!!!!!!!!!! :-D

It's supposed to be issues #1-6. Hopefully, a second trade will come with the second 6 soon after...

A press release has been posted on DC's site that confirms that issues 1-6 will be collected along with material from the Titans/Legion special. 200 Pages so there might be a few pages of stuff.


LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: TEENAGE REVOLUTION
Writer: Mark Waid
Artists: Barry Kitson, Leonard Kirk, Dave Gibbons, Scott Iwahashi, Mick Gray, Art Thibert, James Pascoe and Drew Geraci
Collects LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1-6 and material from the TEEN TITANS/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES SPECIAL
$14.99, 200 pages


Additionally the other part of the Titans/Legion special is collected here.

TEEN TITANS VOL. 4: THE FUTURE IS NOW
Writer: Geoff Johns and Mark Waid
Artists: Mike McKone, Ivan Reis, Tom Grummett, Marc Campos, Joe Prado, Marlo Alquiza and Nelson
Collects TEEN TITANS #15-23 and material from TEEN TITANS/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES SPECIAL
$9.99, 256 pages

Current series getting first trade paperback , although I sort of spilled the beans here .

This is to cool! There's no looking back now! Thanks guys for confirming it!

Omg, that's perfect for me! The first issue of the new series I bought was # 7.

I'm excited by this, and I've got all the issues!

I am very curious to see if the Shikari pages from TT/LSH are included in it.

I'd think they'd include those, though I understand that for everyone else who's reading the TP--with no prior notion of the Legion that came before--might seem a bit lost.

Come to think of it, I wonder if Shikari would ever meet up with them or it's still just an "out" for the creative team should it happen that this Legion flops...

It's a tough call. My feeling is that the 3 pages of the special after the point where we see the Titans land with their adult counterparts and the page where the Legion of Superheroes comic is ripped up may be omitted from both trade paperbacks. Doesn't make sense to include them in the Titans TPB. And Why would you want to show the last 3 pages of the previous continuity in the Legion TPB?

I'd want to see them, because I completely missed this Teen Titans/Legion crossover thing (maybe because I didn't get the Simone issues, either). I never saw it in stores, or even ever heard about it until I came here. Since I found out about it, I've looked around a bit, but haven't found it. What was it called? What format was it?

edit: But that reminds me... maybe that's also the reasoning behind the missing Man of Steel vol. 4 that was supposed to come out 2 weeks ago (which was to feature the 'Death of Superboy' story from the baxter LSH 37 & 38). Maybe it was thought to be too confusing, showing a Legion two boots ago, so close to the start of a new continuity. Amazon doesn't even have it in their computer, and they have other Superman things due out next January already listed.

I don't understand Amazon, Newsarama makes a game of looking at Amazon for listings of Marvel collections of series that have not yet been announced. However Amazon and the bookstores don't get TPBs for several weeks after they've been released in the direct market as a service by the publishers to the channel. So check again in a month.


As for the special:

It was a 48 page one shot issue. The exact title was Teen Titans - The Legion Special. Cover priced $3.50 US by Johns, Waid, Reis, Campos, Prado. No cover date but TT 16 is dated November. It would probably be filed with Teen Titans in most comic shops because it is important in the flow of stories in that book.

TT 16 is needed if you want to follow the last story of the reboot Legion. At the climax of the story the Titans are sent to the post IC future. There's a text box that says see you next month in TT 17.

The focus goes back to the reboot legion, Shikari is separated from them, they chant Long Live the Legion and fade into white. Shikari emerges in a different place. Those are the 3 pages which may or may not be reprinted. Then the next page a parent ironically rips up his kid's LSH v4 #0.

Yikes, I have to read that... Thanks for the info! I just don't understand how I missed it first time around.

Though, that parent ripping up the comic sounds like an unnecessarily harsh ending for the reboot, which had its moments...

The ripping of the comic is probably the first page of the threeboot. Then there's some pages that introduce us to Lyle and his family.

If (big IF) the pages in question are there, it would lend credence to theories that Shikari has a role to play in the 3boot. Otherwise, we'd probably have to write that scene off as little more than a perpetual cliffhanger, or a doorway left ajar for subsequent writers, which could very well come to naught.

Looks like those pages will NOT be included in the Legion TP after all, but those who want to read it in its entirely *might* be able to do so in the TT TPB. Here are the final solicitations:


LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL. 1: TEENAGE REVOLUTION TP
Written by Mark Waid. art by Barry Kitson, Leonard Kirk, Dave Gibbons and others, cover by Kitson
A collection featuring Legion of Super-Heroes #1-6 and the preview story from Teen Titans/Legion Special #1! A bright, defiant, energized team of super-powered teenagers from different worlds forms a team of passionate activists crusading to leave their mark on a society that has forgotten how to fight for change.
200 pages, $14.99, in stores on Nov. 16.

TEEN TITANS: THE FUTURE IS NOW TP
Written by Geoff Johns and Mark Waid, art by Mike McKone, Ivan Reis and Tom Grummett, cover by McKone.
Collects Teen Titans #16-23 and Titans/Legion Special #1! The Titans' weekends are usually a chance to get away from it all. But this time, they're really gone to the 31st century! And their return trip drops them off a mere 10 years into the future.
224 pages, $9.99, in stores on Nov. 30.

You can read all the November DC solicitions HERE .

I wonder if the 12 extra pages in the Legion TPB will feature Barry's design sheets?

That would be awesome but they'll need 6 pages to print the covers to the issues too.

D'Oh!

I'd love to see those extra pages used for an introduction, myself. Maybe Waid going into detail about what lead him to reboot the Legion again.

Seems like its been ages since I've seen a TPB with an intro.