Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Which new Legion would you prefer?

A semi-sequel to my last poll, but this one's for everyone. It's a "two bad choices" or "two good choices" depending on how you see it.

Assume it has already been decided that there's going to be a new Legion series not in any pre-existing continuity. You are guaranteed that it will never be retconned or have its history temporally altered. Which do you want?

An All-Star Legion; all present-day DC characters are assumed to exist and can appear, but the series is not in continuity with any other title. The Superman of All-Star Batman isn't the Superman from All-Star Superman.

A Legion as part of an Ultimate DC line. It can be in continuity with the other titles because they're also under a no-retcons rule. Their future is forced to lead to the Legion, and no writer on another title will be allowed to do something that would erase the Legion's future.

Neither version is another Earth in the existing multiverse, and its characters can never meet any pre-existing versions of themselves.

So, they have essentially equal ability to connect with other DC characters, but only the Ultimate Legion can tie in with other concurrently published stories.

No writer or artist specified this time, as this isn't a creative team question.

I voted "All-Star Although I would take that back if Frank Miller were writing it.

Uranus Lad will the roll call be "We're the___ damn Legion!"?

As many others have realized, I don't think Miller got the memo on what All-Star was supposed to mean. His idea certainly isn't what I meant when I said "All-Star".

One would think that the regulars here had something against a Legion comic where all the men carry guns the size of their arms and all the women are hookers.

Oh, wait...

I chose All-Star. I like the idea of a single creative team being able to do a full run grounded in DC mythos without having to be a slave to it.

I really don't give a floorg about "continuity" when it becomes such a goal into itself. Continuity should be first and foremost an internal tool for a creative team to be consistent with itself (Waid's Terror Firma getting away with, "we didn't know Lemnos was bad!" for instance), and anything extra is negotiable.

There are so many gaps and screw-ups in "universe" continuities that they are irrelevant. I'd rather see creators give good stories over multi-year runs, and let time and memory determine what becomes canon and what does not.

I agree that an "All-Star Legion would do far better on its own.
The occasional guest star (like Superboy or Supergirl) would be fine, but I don't want to see the future tide down by what's happening in the present(comic time).
The Legion in the future should be just that... stories of the future featuring the heroes of that era.
Let's just stick to basics and make the stories of the 31st century be self-contained. The only tie in should be if maybe our future heroes alluded to a historic event that took place on "such and such" a date which would support whatever grand, multi-issue, multi-title epic taking place in the here and now in other DC books.

i have to agree with you there the legion did its best when it was off in its time not boggled down by have worry about the rest of the universe

I also went All-Star for pretty much the same reason as everybody else take the Legion out of the ongoing continuity but have the possibility of the occasional guest-star.

Unfortunately though next to nobody would actually buy the book because of this but if it avoids another Bloodlines-type annual I would be happy to buy a few other copies!

Early on, when the votes were about even, I realized All-Star was going to lead.

In absolute terms, though, how many people would want to see these? That's something I don't think my polls can answer.

I realize my poll wasn't very valid. There are differences between All-Star and Ultimate as implemented so far that I didn't mention, but which were influencing responses. Miniseries vs. ongoing (and, as a result, single creative team vs. changing) and Silver Agey vs. "mature".