Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! New Year Predictions: 2009

Haven't seen a post for this yet, but it's not too late - make your Legion predictions for 2009, and you can rate yourself on how you did this time next year in 2010.

Ratings:

1) Clueless
2) Lucky in love, unlucky in predictions
3) About 50/50
4) Oh yeah, I'm da (wo)man!
5) Amazingly insightful and analytical
6) Naltorian Seer

My Legion Predictions for 2009:

1) The Smallville episode featuring the Legion will be one of the best Smallville episodes ever.

2) Mr. Shooter will be asked to do more Legion stories later in the year by DC after his latest run ends this month, but he will politely decline.

3) R.E.B.E.L.S will be a hit in 2009

4) The Legion will not have their own title in 2009, and instead will just make special appearances in Adventure and Superman titles.

5) Legion of Three Worlds will not determine a single version of the Legion, but will just add to the muddle of the multiple versions now existing.

I predict:

1) Legion will suffer losses to the ranks as the space disease tyhoingrwheglket settles in and decimates everyone who trys to pronounce it. Massive tongue sprains with leave over half the legion sidelined, with Timber Wolf left as the brains of the operation.

2) The nigh omnipotent ,klihtwe, the Dwarf Giant from Planet Htrae will attack with hordes of "Jane's" from the Jetsons, and clean everybody to death with her lint remover 'hellspray'.

3) 10,000 chimps at computer keyboards will write the doomsday codex while drinking Margurita's and smokin' Don Sebastians. This will in turn cause Brainy to construct the Quardray code, which tends to run contrary to the binary code. In the insuing conflagration, Arm-Fall-Off boy will become the Hero of The Legion as he sacrifices his right arm to hurl both objects into the gas giant Beetlegeeze.

4) Somebody dies.

5) Surgical modification will allow Saturn Girl to speak naturally for the first time ever...and her first words are "you go girl"...to Garth.

I learned all this from my oui8ja board, the first know mating of the magic 8ball and the ouija board.

Serious predictions:

1) legion will suffer as Didio has no friggen' clue about what to do with it.

That is all.

My predictions for 2009.

1. Legion of Three Worlds #3 will come out this year.

2. Legion of Three Worlds #4 won't.

My Prediction:

1. I will buy a lottery ticket and it will be a winning ticket.

2. In the event that Prediction 1 does not come to pass, this board will take pity on me and start a comic-lending library.

3. In the event that neither Prediction 1 nor Prediction 2 come to pass, the only way I'll ever get to read any of this stuff is by starting my own comic shop.

4. Prediction 3 is also highly unlikely. (See Prediction 1) Perhaps I will turn to crime. The idea of turning to crime in order to afford superhero comics has its own ironic charm. If that hasn't been the plot of a Tarantino flick, it should be.

1. Legion of 3 Worlds will restore Legion as a viable franchise.
2. Shooter will be the fill-in writer for Adventure Comics because Dan Didio forgot to find a writer for one of his last-minute plans.
3. R.E.B.E.L.S will be tied to Green Lantern universe and will drop Bedard for a Geoff Johns protégé.
4. Legion will become a subplot to Superman, reducing them back to whatever they were before Jim Shooter re-created them in the 60s - a bunch of colorful characters.
5. No Legion monthly in 2009. Adventure Comics will be written by a Geoff Johns protégé, like Sterling Gates or Kreisberg.
6. No new Legion story before mid-2009. And it will suck.

rickshaw1, it is SCARY how much we think alike.
I'll bet his nickname around DC, heck, the comics industry is Doubletalk Dan. He says many words without saying anything.

Anyway, predictions:
1)The Legion episode of Smallville WILL be amazing, and they will return later this season or early next season. Right now, episodes 18-22 are not titled and may depend on how well "Legion" does.
2) Mon-el will be retconned to be a Kryptonian.
3) No matter how little I hope for on the Legion this year, I will be disappointed anyway. Glad I've got you guys as a support group. By the way, Hello, my name is AFOB, and I'm a Legionaholic.

Sadly, I also agree with this:

1. Jim Shooter, long known for adapting the names of fans into Legion characters, brings a smile to my face as, in his final issue, the heretofore unnamed alien invaders who exist in a "virtual world," and appear to be engaging in a massive "game," entering into the Legion's universe via "avatars," seemingly, as described by Brainiac-5, "from nowhere," and who are at the center of an event called the "Universal AnNIHILation War" are revealed as none other than:

The Exnihil.

(Hey! No snickering!)

Ah... Ex of two weeks ago, if only you had known then what you know now, you wouldn't have been so flippant with your little self-referential humor.

(I can only assume the above prediction was yet another casualty of the truncation of Shooter's run. Damn you, DiDio... DAMN YOOOOOUUUUU!)

Okay, I'll try some.

1. FC:L3W #5 will come out before the end of June.
2. There will be no new Legion stories in Adventure in 2009.
3. Some Legionnaires will appear in Superman, Action, and... what's another good guess... Flash.
4. We will hear part of the story behind LSH v5 #50 from Jim Shooter. But not all of it.
5. R.E.B.E.L.S. will be a decent comic book, but its cancellation will be announced before the end of the year.
6. FC:L3W will end with neither mass carnage of Legionnaires nor a merged universe. There'll still be three separate Legions in three separate 31st centuries.

Man. Imagine if I was right about all that.

Whizzy the Super-Cat will make her long awaited reappearance, albeit in a non-speaking role. Multiple Legion World threads will ensue.

A new LOSH series by Geoff Johns will be announced in the NYCC.

It will probably start right after the GL Blackest Night stuff.