Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! RESULT: Which Legion for Alex Ross?

Ever since Alex Ross and Paul Dini began working on their over-sized stories à la "Superman: Peace on Earth" or the recent "JLA: Liberty and Justice", I always wanted them to work on a LSH GN. The question is: Which Legion should they use?

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Great Poll, Frog Kid!

i'm a massive ALEX ROSS fan !!! and i'd love to see him take on the LEGION in one his specials !!!

actually in the latest issue of "Wizard" he mentions, his love of the LEGION !!!

so hopefully we will get one in the future .... and he has stated that his "Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes" litho print, is one of his single favourites !!!

Matthew.

My god! Matthew! You're saying there is... gasp...HOPE!

Ross's work glistens, but has a curious quality of being almost ... no, "lifeless" isn't accurate ... perhaps "embalmed" is closer to it. Freezing the look of people in action without ever quite showing that they're intended to be living, breathing, even occasionally sweating or exerting beings.

Every time I've picked up a book of his in recent months, as I did the other day with Mythology, I get more of this impression. It's almost as if the subjects are too beautiful and abstract to take part in any real or imaginary setting.

I'm not sure whether a Ross portrayal of the Legion would be a tribute to memories of some grouping of the past, or more of a cryogenic artistic freezing of them in place. (With a warm light upon them, true enough, as with his '70s LSH print.) Perhaps Ross shouldn't have any Legion.

All this is not to deny his skill and utter attention to detail. It's that everything, the more I see of Ross's work, becomes a pin-up under glass -- not looking as if it's affecting anything else, in or out of the scene depicted.

I see your point, Greybird. I could read is latest JLA work yesterday and see what you mean. He should stop looking at real-life models while painting.

But I still think a LSH GN would be a cool project.

This is probably the first time it's happened, but I agree with Grey on this one. Ross does beautiful, incredibly detailed and imaginative work but there's just something about it that can seem a little cold sometimes. Saying it's too perfect seems a bit silly but it's the closest thing to how I feel about it. His art makes me go 'ooh' at the technical skill and such but it doesn't grab me all that much emotionally. Not in the same way that someone like P Craig Russell does. There's no disputing that he's one of the best comics artists out there at the moment and I love his work but it's almost a case of very pretty pictures but not much feeling of depth to them, if you see what I mean.

i know what you mean about the "frozen in time" look to his work !!! but i think it's still amazing !!!

i suppose i it so much, because it's the nearest we'll get to seeing most of these characters in "real life" !!!

do you know what i mean ....

Matthew.

I really liked the pic of the JLA fighting Starro. IMO, it greatly captured the spirit of the SA.

I think if there ever is a Legion Graphic Novel by Alex Ross it'll be about whichever Legion era he wants to draw. His JLA focused on the JLA which he grew up with instead of the current version, and I imagine that he'd do the same for the Legion.

Interesting! At first I thought the Baxter era was going to win, but now the Bronze age is leading, followed closely by the modern age!

And the winner is... THE BRONZE AGE LEGION!