Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Visionaries of Tomorrow Shooter: It's Official

Well, I don't subscribe at all to the notion of "real" Legion, "real" Legion fans etc. I really don't like this kind of polarization in general.
Of *course* my fave Legion is the 70s/80s one, and it was great seeing them again in Lightning Saga, and I'm super-excited about their upcoming appearance in Action Comics and the prospect of a more "permanent" presence (a new title).
A few people thought the discrepances in Lightning Saga were "suspect". I prefer to call them "mystifying". It's just a matter of perspective.
I don't want the WaK Legion to disappear though. I don't want it to be replaced by the "classic" Legion, and I particularly don't want a reboot.
Mr. Shooter said he isn't going to replace the WaK Legion with another version and I hope he really meant it.

Let me explain: It'd be fantastic to have the classic Legion (note that I don't use the words real or even original Legion) in their own magazine, and yes! in an either/or situation I'd go with the classic one instead of the WaK Legion, but it'd feel like a pyrrhic victory to me.
Not only I'd miss the WaK Legion, not only we'd have fewer Legion stories, but a replacement of that Legion with the classic one by another reboot would dampen my enthusiasm considerably because it'd mean that *any* Legion, classic or otherwise, could and most probably *would* be replaced down the road by another one, and another one.
Maybe that's why I find the myth of Sisyphus one of the scariest in Greek mythology (He went to Tartarus, the netherworld, where he is forced to roll a block of stone against a steep hill, which tumbles back down when he reaches the top. Then the whole process starts again, lasting all eternity).

That's fair, but I would say two things:

1. I think that we, as comics readers, often don't read carefully enough to get everything out of the stories that we could get. I like noticing stuff like the thing with Klar's glasses, and I'm going to try hard to understand more things like that, because I think it's interesting, and after all I'm paying good money for these comics.

2. What the thing with Klar's glasses (as well as other things) shows is that, whatever else you can
say about Waid's work on this title, it's not accurate to say that this was one-buttocked hackwork. We could argue about how well Waid achieved the things he was trying on different levels, but there are those who will deny entirely that he was working on any level other than the superficial, and those people are, as a matter of straight fact, wrong.

And it's the second time he messes up. You'd think they'd learn their lesson LOL