Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! LAST ROUND!!!! ACTION, Reboot or Threeboot? Ends Tuesday, 8/19

CLASSIC

My Legion is this one, especially the period on the right:


Oh, something tells me they will never come back. So, I'd stick with 3boot with Shooter. And whichever characters are missing would be filled by classic ones. And not a single snake or 20th Century rip-off would come closer to the team, except for L.E.G.I.O.N. characters.

Reboot Cos: After the development of his character in 5YL, writers finally figured out how much of a leader he actually is in the reboot. Classic Cos was always boring, and he became the Time Trapper. HATED his characterization in the threeboot.

Classic Imra. I'm thinking her argument with Darkseid, her staring down the rest of the Legion in the Universo Project. Plus this is one of the first 'active' female heroes in the DC Universe, she needs to stay. I didn't like the very intrusive reboot Imra, and re. threeboot: I prefer an Imra that can talk.

COSMIC BOY: 'Classic' 5.5
Reboot 6.5
Threeboot 0

SATURN GIRL: 'Classic' 6
Reboot 2.5
Threeboot .5

'Blanket' votes won't be counted, sorry. I *did* count Emerald Empress's votes, since the characters in question were mentioned separately, but I won't be going back to reference this post going forward.

Remember, 'Classic' equals the Action Legion as seen in 2008. Reboot is as seen at the end of that series or in any subsequent cameos. Threeboot would be as of the most recent issue. The choices are versions that will apparently be appearing in LEGION OF THREE WORLDS.

LIGHTNING LAD... ACTION, Reboot or Threeboot?

You can vote for previous characters, if you haven't yet. Or change your vote, if you want.

Garth really has had a fairly consistent characterization from boot to boot. At least, he doesn't vary widely in tone (except for SW6, I guess).

It'd be sad, too sad, to see a 'mismatched' Saturn Girl/Lightning Lad pair, so I'm voting 'Classic'.

I have to object to the premise of the "classic" = the current Action team, and Garth is the perfect character to make the point. The Garth who bantered with Batman in the follow up story, and presented himself as the one who taught Kal to be a practical joker was fun. I liked him. He wasn't the Adventure era Garth though.

Mystery Lad, which characterzation of Garth should we consider for your definitation here. Adventure era or recent Action?

Saturn Girl: That's a tough one. I like the Threeboot characterization so far, except for her being mute.

Ultimately, I think I'll stick with Classic Imra, though I do wish she'd grow her hair out.

As for Garth, I think I'll also go with the Classic, provided that he's not really Proty in Garth' body.

I understand and empathsize. That's why I've used the quotation marks around the word Classic. I know there's a variety of opinions about the status of Geoff Johns' LSH.

Which one will appear in LEGION OF THREE WORLDS? That's the criteria.

Maybe I'll use the designation ACTION, rather than 'Classic'...

Which actually makes sense, as the Superman in today's comics is not the same Superman from Adventure 247.

In this case, I vote for 3boot Imra.

I liked the Reboot Imra - she's quite powerful - more than Classic and 3boot.

As for Garth...hmmm... hmm....one thing that helps me to choose - is DnA Garth....so it's reboot Garth....the most heroic and sacrifice ever made by any Legionnaire in any book that brought my tear down my face...is DnA Garth.

Garth is definitely tougher for me than the other two, as all three versions have enormous appeal for me. But I think I'll go with ACTION Garth, largely because the way Johns wrote him was really endearing. I'd definitely like to see more of this take on Lightning Lad.

Garth: To me it is a choice between Proty, Jarth and the real Lightning Lad. No contest, I vote Threeboot.

Reboot Rokk. It would have been Action Rokk, but for his Time Trapper identity.

Classic Saturn Girl. Hair can be changed.

Threeboot Garth. Ditto Doctor One for the reason.

Garth? Can I pick animated (2nd season) Garth? I liked his portrayal there. If I'm not allowed to then I'll have to go for Threeboot Garth because I like the way Levitz is writing him.

You meant Shooter, right? In fact, when I say 3boot in here, read Shooter's 3boot. I don't think Waid gave anyone a personality in his run (except for Cos - which was his best take on the character).

Cosmic Boy - reboot or 3boot

Saturn Girl - pre-bikini Adventure version (the gold standard of the character) or 3boot.

Lighting Lad - 3boot.

Cosmic Boy - ACTION. The guy from the Levitz Spotlight issue is still the best Cos.

Saturn Girl - ACTION as well.

Lightning Lad - Tougher one, but I'll also go with ACTION here.

Wow, I thought I'd be more diverse.

Garth... this one is harder for some reason. I'm inititally leaning towards the 'TOONIVERSE' cartoon version but as that isn't one of our given options I'll go with ACTION based on Johns' recent arc. 3boot a close runner up. Post/Re-boot Garth got on my nerves a little.

Cosmic Boy - Reboot. Likely because I loved SW6 Cos so much. Classic/Action Cos is more multi-faceted and a close second, but reboot Cos stepped up to the plate and impressed me. I like 3boot Cos, but nowhere near the other two.

Saturn Girl - Classic/Action. I know she was a panel hog, but this Imra has such a list of accomplishments that I adore as a result. I'm really falling in love with 3boot Imra, but Action wins. As for the hair, I take it that she's the 'post-Conspiracy with the burned hair' parallel and it'll grow back. One day.

Lightning Lad - 1/2 Reboot, 1/2 Threeboot. I'm turned off by Johns' portrayal, though I love preboot Garth otherwise. The loud and/or hotshot personality is overdone for me after the cartoon. Despite the fact I'm a reboot Garth fan, I went half because 3boot Garth has a lot of potential and hasn't had anything happen that left a bad taste in my mouth and memories (ie Jarth).

Cos - I do think his greatest role ever was in TMK, but to follow the definitions laid out in this thread, I'd have to go with the Reboot. The reboot and TMK have made Cos one of my top favorite Legionnaires ever.

Saturn Girl - Class/Action all the way. She's one of the greatest heroines ever in comics. She's basically part of the blueprint.

Lightning Lad - While I like the Reboot version of Garth a lot, I think I'd probably go with classic/action Lightning Lad. He was the quintessential 'heroic young man' of the Silver Age, and then was such a (to me) older brother figure for the Legion thereafter. I did like the reboot version though and thought his growth in the pre-Lost DnA issues and Lost itself was excellent and wondered what he would have been like upon his actual return.

PS - I hate the threeboot Garth and Cos. Imra is pretty bland thus far too.

COSMIC BOY: Action 6.5
Reboot 10
Threeboot .5

SATURN GIRL: Action 11
Reboot 4.5
Threeboot 1.5

LIGHTNING LAD Action 6
Reboot 1.5
Threeboot 5.5

PHANTOM GIRL/APPARITION: Action, Reboot or Threeboot?

I'm going to go with Threeboot, because I think she captures the best of all the versions. She's elegant, smartish, and independent (something you can't say for her in earlier versions, as time progressed). I like the addition of an interest in history, though I'm not crazy about the 'head in two places' complication that has, thankfully, mostly been ignored. (It made a nice one-time observation about a possibility of extra-dimensional physicality, but is too unwieldly for a super-hero comic to use consistently.)

An Espionage Squad connection is a must. The current LSH needs to formally create one.

Classic, and presumably Action, Tinya became a bit unlikeable to me as she cattily bonded with Shadow Lass, slamming Star Boy, Blok and Timber Wolf, especially- though anyone could come under fire at any time. Reboot Tinya became half of a panel-eating couple that started out sweetly 'making up' for the couple's previous fate in the preceding boot, but ended up being unpleasant, boring and too heavily featured. And she had that half-Caargite thing hanging around her neck like an albatross.

I enjoy the current Tinya's status as single. When she does 'fall', I hope there's something similar to the standing-against-her-teammates-in-defense-of-the-'bad'-boy thing from ADVENTURE.

If I could pluck Cockrum/Grell era Tinya out of place in the timestream and choose her, I would.

Tinya...sigh...as much as I loved seeing her in LEGION - she stood out the best during the Cockrum/Grell era...spunky and sweet and not to mention her fabulous bell bottom! I liked seeing her in action at the beginning of WnK era..even I like her in Cartoon show too. Heck. so make that 1/2 Reboot and 1/2 threeboot.