Ayla's right eye is on her hair. That can be useful?
That Computo?
My honest biggest reason for not buying? I see four large panels with no story carried by the art nor action and certainly not using detailed, time consuming effort. This could have been done in half the real estate. Another 5 minute read.
We will get the usual from the creators, "always wanted to do Legion, fan from childhood," while the effort will be their least all year.
Yeah, that's the Computo redesign from way back in LSH #311 and following when Brainiac 5 blew up Legion headquarters trying to cure Invisible Kid's sister, Dnielle Foccart, from Computo posession. She got cured. Computo created a new Legion headquarters, and Computo became the Lrgion sidekick.
I will buy it, because it's a shot at picking up a Legion ongoing. That may or may not be with this creative team. Creative teams come and go on ongoings anyway, but at least there would be a title for them to shuffle around on.
I'd rather have the characters I like than another Convergence style reboot.
I mentioned that the art reminded me of EGOs. Sure enough, it's the same creative team.
I put capsule reviews of the first three issues of EGOs on this thread
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
As predicted, things aren't looking all that good for the Legion.
In an interview posted today, Dan Didio refers to the Legion (and other stories featured in Convergence) as stories of "doomed timelines" in which we get to see how these characters react when their universe/timeline dies.
So, for those of us who believed from the get-go that this was just the final nail in the Legion's coffin (at least until someone takes over the reigns from the current powers that be) then it looks like this might well be the case.
Considering the team doing it did a Legion-lite version in EGOs it would seem a possibility that their issues could be seen as a launching point for further Legion stories if they sell well.
And not because they thought the Legion-lite team would be a decent team to do a final version of this Legion story. He typed with foolish optimism, when knowing better.
A new Legion could be some JLA3000 affair just as easily.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
A new Legion could be some JLA3000 affair just as easily....
Maybe.
But DCnU seems to have gone out of their way of late to distance themselves from anything that doesn't in some way tie into the movie/TV franchises as these are [questionably] perceived as the cash cows.
This is why a Justice League variation of the future (JL3K) is being hawked so loudly while the Legion is not, which is ironic considering that JL3K is one of the worst selling titles at DC - third from the bottom and falling, as I'm told.
In fact, the only hope that the Legion has is if the recently hinted at Legion move were to happen, which was discussed here, there and everywhere after DC Entertainment noticed how much money Marvel made with the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' film.
Some of the basic Legion concepts must scare them silly.
It's an optimistic future People have ideals The heroes are very good at what they do. The CGI budget for cosmic Legion stories may be huge
and so on...
I forgot to say regarding EGOS, but that first arc is essentially a different team fighting a slightly different Sun Eater, so they really were trying to plug into the Legion with it.
Gosh, is JL3000 going that poorly now? It's been a while since I cared enough to look at DC's sales figures. I've very little sympathy for it really.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
A new Legion could be some JLA3000 affair just as easily....
Maybe.
But DCnU seems to have gone out of their way of late to distance themselves from anything that doesn't in some way tie into the movie/TV franchises as these are [questionably] perceived as the cash cows.
This is why a Justice League variation of the future (JL3K) is being hawked so loudly while the Legion is not, which is ironic considering that JL3K is one of the worst selling titles at DC - third from the bottom and falling, as I'm told.
In fact, the only hope that the Legion has is if the recently hinted at Legion move were to happen, which was discussed here, there and everywhere after DC Entertainment noticed how much money Marvel made with the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' film.
Yeah, I remember a time when DC was innovative and had tried and trued concepts the House of Ideas copied. It makes the DC management a laughingstock of the industry that The Guardians of the Galaxy, which started out as a poor man's Legion and even The Imperial Guard which is an outright clone of the Legion are more popular than a concept they came up with.
I tried to rip their soul out.I tried to make them forget Superman. But they won't.
Over on Bleeding Cool they are trying to get a list of artists that Chip Kidd's painting over for his "variant" covers to hopefully get them credit. Legion looks like Giffen, but can anyone confirm?
Over on Bleeding Cool they are trying to get a list of artists that Chip Kidd's painting over for his "variant" covers to hopefully get them credit. Legion looks like Giffen, but can anyone confirm?
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