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What age are you, how long have you been an LSH fan and how are you reacting to the news of the "re-imagining"?

I'm a thirty....something 37, been a Legion fan since 1978 (Superboy and The Legion of Super Heroes 245) and I am very excited about the new relauch/gettin back to basics/classic Legion!

LLL!!! not RIP Reboot!

I'm 33, picked up SLSH #213 off the rack and fell in love. I've been an AR Legion collector since.

The news of Waid/Kitson's changes to the Legion I love is making me sick to my stomach. Although I'd welcome a return to any era of the Legion pre-Superboy's death, I doubt this will resemble anything close to any Legion ever.

I'm 27, have been reading the Legion since the reboot (have since gone back and gotten about 60% of the preboot stories) and am feverishly excited and looking forward to the new series.

LOVE what I'm hearing about it and am of the opinion that even if its bad it could never be as bad as the reboot had gotten.

I'm 39 and started LEGION in 1973. I am looking forward to the "re-imagining".
If Mark & Barry successfully translate their obvious enthusiasm for this new series onto the printed page, it should be great and I'll enjoy it.
Unlike many of you, I can't formulate a fair and unbiased opinion on something until I've actually READ the darn thing!
I wish I had that gift, but I don't. I also don't think I OWN the LEGION just because I've followed their adventures, unfailingly, for the last 31 years.
This outrage, this feeling of personal betrayal, just strikes me as misdirected anger, but what do I know.
The only thing that could possibly drive me to such displays of melodramatic angst would be if DC stopped publishing ANY form of LEGION adventures, which luckily, has yet to happen.
Until then, I'm willing to give the new creative team the benifit of the doubt.
Of course, if it sucks, I'll be sure to let them know as well!

Who said anything about "fair and unbiased?" I'm biased and I know it.

This isn't a scientific experiment. Neutrality has no place.

28. Read Levitz (probably about Baxter 1-25 or so) as a kid. Not really much of comics reader generally, but would pick up the occasional Legion issue to see what was going on. Started reading again with Legionnaires, really became enthusiastic with the reboot. I still believe the first year or so of that was really good, some of my favorie Legion issues in fact. Then it went downhill very quickly, and I stopped reading. Came back with DnA, but, quite frankly, being on this board is probably the only reason I continued reading it through the end.

I'm quite looking forward to the relaunch.

I'll be 41 this month. Legion fan since 1972.

I'm looking forward to the new title with guarded optimism. Although I wish DC would not throw out past continuity, this is something they've done quite often since 1985, and it doesn't look like they're about to change this bizarre policy.

Part of the reason for my optimism is that Waid is involved, and he was largely the reason the first reboot was better than I expected it to be.

36-- LSH fan since S/LSH # 205 (mid 70s) -- am thrilled about the reimagining!

I'm 29. First issue # 305 (1983) been collecting ever since but dropped between 1996 and 2001.

This latest series is the most I've enjoyed the Legion since pre Zero Hour and possibly pre-volume 4. Love the direction DnA decided to take it with this series (didn't like their stuff before that).

Not looking foward to the new stuff. No offense to Kitson who seems to be very nice...I don't care for his work. Thought Coipel and Batista were the highlights.

I'm all for modernizing the Legion and escaping their obscurity while still keeping their "spirit". Think Waid has gone crazy with this and shouldn't be allowed close to the Legion ever again after this fails.

Ok ok...that was a bit too negative. I will get it and if I like will defend it but I just have a strong suspicion I won't care for it. I am anti girl, boy, kid, lass for the most part.

Jorge

19...Legion fan since I was 11 and got hooked from XS's crossover in Impulse. Followed her back into Legionnaires and the rest is history. Though I grew up on the postboot, I have just as much love for the preboot and love the Baxter & v4 series more than anything.

I'm 21, nearly 22. I'm not sure how long I've been reading the Legion. Like I've mentioned before I'm not a fan of gender-specific codenames most of the time and I'd rather there not be another reboot. I'll give the new series a chance but I can't understand how some people think this wlll be a return of the so-called "classic" Legion. Even if it picks right back up again after Magic Wars it still won't be the same. None of the Legion runs have been absolutely "perfect". The most startling thing about this reboot is the fact so far it seems to take nothing from the last. I'd rather the LSH not be rebooted every 10 years or less.

22. My first exposure was to my brother's Adventure Comics digests and their Legion reprint stories. I've read a little bit of every other era but the Adventure era is my favorite. I mostly didn't like the postboot stuff but I became an official comics subscriber with the DnA Legion and I saw it through to the end. I'm going to try the new series too.

I'm 51 and been following the LSH since Adventure #323 (1964). I love the old silver age cast and stories and would welcome a back to basics approach, but I am disappointed to hear we're starting everything all over again. I dislike that many of the characters that I've been following for years will be gone. A new approach could have been done within the ongoing continuity.

That being said though, I am certainly more than willing to approach the new book with an open mind. I hope the creators' enthusiasm carries over into presenting superior stories. If so, I'll continue be around for a long time to come.

I'm 45, and became a Legion fan with seeing the winged woman on the cover of "LSH" v2 n284, in December 1981, but I'd read it irregularly since 1968.

I'm not too optimistic about how the reboot (that's what it is, methinks) will pick up the best qualities of the Legion -- its spirit of youth and brash confidence, its passionate personal connections, its idealism and belief in sentient progress.

Those qualities are in short supply these days in a weary world, much more so than in 1958 or 1972 or even 1981. And since the Legion is now to reflect 2004 -- Waid's said so -- I'm not that thrilled at the prospect.

Waid's casting it as an "anti-Utopia." The Legion's setting has always been one of making considerable progress even more vigorous and secure against its foes, and that's quite different.

Waid is a talented writer, he genuinely cares about this milieu, but it appears his ego has too often outrun his talent and sticking power. Kitson's art looks adept and promising. We haven't even seen the Titans crossover yet, though, so the angry premortems are much too early.

I'm intrigued enough to buy Volume 5 until I get disappointed in the storytelling, art, or both. I have fairly high standards, so that might not be for long. Unlike what happened with my reacting to Coipel on "Legion Lost," though -- and I was glad that I could later see positive facets to his work -- I probably won't stop buying, if I do, out of outrage. It's likely to be out of sadness.

44 almost 45. Sheesh where do the years go.
As i think i have said before, started reading the Legion around 68/69? But this being Britain prior to us collapsing before the American cultural juggernaut. (No McDonalds, we had Whimpeys) Issues of the legion were few and far between.

Came back some 10 years ago, thanks to comic shops and the LMBP.

I will buy the new issues. I think I will enjoy them. I hope I can think of them as the Legion. But as my Legion, the one that had superboy join a club in the future, has long since gone I think I will be enjoying the adventures of a legion not mine.

33, been a fan for 15 years, managed to read most every LSH story published since becoming a fan.

I'm...unsure about this reboot (and like a lot of others, that's what it seems to me to be). But, I'm also willing to suspend my initial misgivings and give the series a fair shake. When I have LSH#1 in my hands, I'm not going to worry about anything other than how that issue reads to me.

Ultimately only time (and published issues) will tell if the misgivings I have about this new title are unfounded or not.

32 ... been a legion fan /reader since i was 5 (1977 or so)

i generally LIKE waid as a writer and REALLY LIKE kitson as an artist

That being said, I'm not sure that this "NEW AND IMPROVED" legion will work for me ... the current continuity was NOT working for me (i dropped it a while back during Thunder/Lori Morning boredom, came back for dNa, then would have dropped again except it was nearly done and i LOVE Simone's work so i finished it out)

The Legion that lives in my imagination is Levitz and the first year and a half of TMK ... if i want to visit, i reread those issues ... spend some time thinking up my own ideas about the Legion and its future

with this 2nd (3rd? 4th?) reboot, i'm giving them one story arc to get me interested ... i just hope that their Legion has the same sense of action, nobility, sexiness and camraderie that the Legion does in my imagination

(and yes i should be honest, i am TIRED of teen-angst books as i grow into my 30s)

Mr Myg - I agree with you. My favourite era was Levitz - I loved nearly verything about it (hence my enthusiasm for Tellus and Comet Queen).

So obviously this reboot leaves me cold. The Adventure era has little appeal for me, so I reckon Waid's just writing for himself and a bunch of 40something fan boys. There's no way this book will appeal to new or younger readers. the names are ridiculous and without the newer characters (Gates, XS, Kid Quantum, Shikari) are too samey looking. It's like rebooting X-Men with just the original line up plus Havoc and Polaris i.e. of short-lived novelty value only.

28 here and have been collecting Legion from the end of the baxter series(after the Time Trapper conspiracy)/Who's Who in the LSH. I liked the Five year gap but got bored when the Legion turned outlaws. Loved Zero Hour and the preboot. I just like a good story and if it entertains me I am happy. I hope that we do some of the post boot characters like Kinteix, XS and Gates. There has got to be a way to fit them in.

I will give it a fair try before I make my mind. So far all I have seen is one cover image and some second hand reports. Lets wait to see what actually happens before coming down on it.

I certainly hope that more non-human Legionnaires will be appearing, as well as more diverse-looking humanoids.

We don't really know anything about the new series, yet... we've read descriptions trying to tell us, but that ain't nearly the thing itself.
AND, what we've read have been attempts to describe the situation as the series begins... the real intentions of the creators won't be evident till the END of the first issue (hopefully then-- dragging things out killed earlier versions of the Legion).

I'm pulling for Gates, XS, and a living Lyle, too-- and I'd like to see some things from DNA's run to be continuous with this new series. Maybe they will-- we just don't know enough yet.

Then again, there were lots of things I wanted to see carry over from the reboot prior to DNA into DNA, that were never touched upon... probably never will now. Such is the lot of a comic book reader.

By the bye-- I'd read an X-Book that just featured the original cast plus Havok and Lorna Dane. Happily. Though I'd expect that *other* x-books would continue merrily on their way with other 'generations'. I'd enjoy some of them, too... probably.

You're being pretty insulting towards older fans, CK, for not much reason.

Todd

I don't mean to be insulting to older fans. How am I being insulting? I'm just saying who the book will appeal to - people exaclty like Waid. At least the last reboot tried to introduce new characters to appeal to both long term and brand new readers.

I don't know. I mean... Batman titles seem to appeal to a lot of folks despite having the same character and a lot of the same supporting cast the book's been about for 60-some years.

You're being insulting in that you're assuming that all older fans think the same way. The truth is, there are older fans who want to see the reboot continued and there are younger fans who'd welcome 'Adventure-only' stories.

Do the numbers in my age mean I can't like Gates, XS and the Kwai while simultaneously welcoming glimpses of Element Lad and Sun Boy?

Just stick with 'Adventure-fans' and leave the numbers off, OK? Typing '40 year old fans' or 'over the age of 35' just makes *you* look ignorant.

The creators have said they want to appeal to long term and brand new readers. Like you, I don't quite see how yet. I doubt I will till I read the story. Maybe not then, either.

Maybe DC's operating under the 'skips a generation' philosophy?

There's something behind the 'boy/girl' names... and the presence of the characters chosen. A creator has said they won't be the only ones.

We just don't know enough yet to be drawing lines in the sand.

Todd