Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! WHAT ARE WE CALLING THIS ERA?

Oh, sorry to yell....
But I just never know what to call this current Legion.
Reimagined? V5? WaK? Is there a poll? What's the consensus?

I'll go with the majority.

Don't know, but "reimagined" is too long.

I agree.
I also don't like WaK because it sounds like "whack", like "Crack is Whack." If I was a creator on a book, I wouldn't want people to call it whack.

Yeah, I'm not warming to the term "WaK" either (how about "WaKit"? just kidding...). Steve Wacker might not mind it ...

We might just have to go to volume numbers - what is this? five? Maybe this is the "punk Legion" ... "the 75K"... maybe future issues will provide an appropriate moniker.

Sounds like Devo. "WaK-it good!!!"

"Threeboot" would be descriptive without being pejorative, like "Archie Legion." It IS the third such continuity, broadly speaking.

"V5" is short, pithy, and also accurate, and will be what the Overstreet Guide uses to describe it.

How about BaM? Use their first initials instead. I'll probably wind up referring to it as v5.

It's WaK to me (Waid and Kitson, and the initials are also an homage to Steve Wacker).

WaK is the creative team.

v5 is the series itself, which may or may not outlast WaK.

What we need is a good name for the continuity, which will likely outlast the v5 moniker, if one can infer from the previous two continuities. "Threeboot" sounds reasonable to me.

As the book continues, a more descriptive term for this era may present itself.

I'll stick with v5 for now.

How aout VR5? Maybe Lori Singer will show up...

5ML. Five months later(give or take).

Nah, call them the "Grandpa" Legion. As in "this is not your grandpa's Legion" and "Eat it, grandpa!"

Put me down for "Threeboot"

count my vote for threeboot.

Interesting question. I would lean toward WaK, if only because I tend to define eras by their creators ("Levitz era", "TMK", "DnA") rather than volumes (I get confused). Threeboot is growing on me, however.

One that's picked up some usage over at CBR is "Rebeat".

Or shorten "threeboot" to "3boot". V5 works okay too. Probably something will emerge/evolve as time goes on.

Somebody used WnK somewhere along the way and I thought that was cute. You know, W'n'K without the apostrophes. It made me think of it as the 'Wink' Legion.

"Nod, nod, wink wink, know what I mean, know what I mean?"

I like that a lot better than the "Wak!" Legion.

In what way?

I'm gonna go with either threeboot or v5 myself.

J

How about "Waidsworld"... it's party time, excellent.

or threeboot.

Someone coined the term after reading Barry's quote:

"I always understood reboot meant you were wiping out past continuity, which we're not. But we are going off in a completely different direction."

The "song" continues, but the "beat" has changed.

Though it's used just the same as "Threeboot" is used here.

The Midriff Era?

Utopian Times?

Legion Rebels?

The Legion Five?

Wackitaid?

MarSteBar?

The Latest?

I kinda like WaK cause there's so many naught and not so naughty variations for the abbreviation -
WaK = Waid and Kitson
Wan'K (or the regional dialect variation WaK) = Waid and Kitson
WaKwac = waid, Kitson, Wacker
WaKy = Zany/craziness related to WaK era
WaKed = When a character exhibits significant variation from previous incarnations
PreWaK = Times before the Waid/Kitson era

I can even think of a great WaK letters page title that's not quite rated G for general audiences (PG maybe?)

WaKing up is hard to do.