His initial appearance is one of the best Legion stories ever. It's been pretty much downhill for him ever since. I'm definitely not a fan of most of his use in the present day.
His initial appearance is one of the best Legion stories ever. It's been pretty much downhill for him ever since. I'm definitely not a fan of most of his use in the present day.
Yeah. The conquorer from another galaxy, with worlds falling to his armies. A threat who the Legion just managed to defeat in an untold story, and whose escape really scared them. And mostly downhill from there. The TMK run restored him to a position of power in the galaxy, as well as a role in why the team was formed i the first place. The Mordruverse issue gave a glimpse into this power. No doubt we've seen him as supposedly having lots of power (JSA, End of an Era) but he rarely carried the same levels of threat that I can recall.
"...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."
His initial appearance is one of the best Legion stories ever. It's been pretty much downhill for him ever since. I'm definitely not a fan of most of his use in the present day.
Yeah. The conquorer from another galaxy, with worlds falling to his armies. A threat who the Legion just managed to defeat in an untold story, and whose escape really scared them. And mostly downhill from there. The TMK run restored him to a position of power in the galaxy, as well as a role in why the team was formed i the first place. The Mordruverse issue gave a glimpse into this power. No doubt we've seen him as supposedly having lots of power (JSA, End of an Era) but he rarely carried the same levels of threat that I can recall.
I have a distaste for near-omnipotent villains, because they are so rarely defeated without a massive contrivance. The Postboot Mordru storyline, while not perfect, at least focused on the teamwork and tactics it took to defeat him.
you and me both, Fanfie, and thanks for referring to the Postboot Mordru. still one of my fave stories of all time! definitely loved the teamwork and tactics that went into fighting Mordru
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Waid was very keen on the Bendis/Sook designs when they were originally revealed, but was pretty radio silent during the run over the last couple years.
But he did say in an email "no one wants to be the creator to marginalize a team that was designed to be so diverse and inclusive and racially homogenous, something I wish we'd done a better job of ourselves with the Threeboot. "
So my guess is that he will be going with the newer version, but we'll see. One could significantly argue that Bendis did that marginalization himself.
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Funnily enough, Waid did a podcast interview 2 years ago where he said he wouldn't want to write the Legion again.
I agree with GL that Bendis himself marginalized the most recent iteration of the Legion.
No offense intended to people who are bigger fans of the Legion than I am, but I still think the Legion is best treated as an 80s nostalgia item. Just my opinion.
Funnily enough, Waid did a podcast interview 2 years ago where he said he wouldn't want to write the Legion again.
I agree with GL that Bendis himself marginalized the most recent iteration of the Legion.
No offense intended to people who are bigger fans of the Legion than I am, but I still think the Legion is best treated as an 80s nostalgia item. Just my opinion.
He marginalized it in the worst way possible, acting under the idea that marginalized creators might be interested in carrying it on in some way and thus making it accessible to new readers, while making the changes so offensive and losing whatever audience he had by the Justice League mini that I doubt anyone would ever WANT to put in the time and effort to clean up his mess.
I spent over a decade conceptualizing and trying to write about Arsenal and his daughter with the Legionnaires, and Williamson just, he... he went in...
I like the art, and that so many of them are smiling. Brings me back to the days of Alan Davis' Superboy's Legion, or the more upbeat bits of the Moy era. I like my Legion to have the capacity for smiles, and not to be all world-wearied and broken-down by life, at least, at the start!
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