Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities back from the CBS in 2004

I haven't really checked out Comics on the Web either because its a pay service. But I understand that the comics presented there are in Flash. What I have are basically JPG's of the issues, zipped into and Win-RAR format that is readable by CDisplay.

That would be great, Scott!

And I would love to catch up on another CrossGen book -- the only one I've ever really read is Way of the Rat.

What title, other than Negation, would you most highly recommend?

I just got into Way of the Rat myself. Love it so far, after 3 or 4 issues. I would recommend either Crux, which has a slight tie-in to Negation and if you like sci-fi. Or Ruse. Ruse is an excellantly written Sherlock Holmes type. Heck, maybe I can put both of the other series on the same CD. I'll see what I can do. Just finishing up with scanning Negation #25 so that will be up-to-date for you.

How much of Way of the Rat have you read?

Adventures of Superman 624
JSA 57
Liberty Meadows 35

Entertaining week, if a bit low in quantity ...

Cool! Ruse was in fact one of the other titles I'd taken a look at in the store, and been interested in on more than one occasion.

I've read every issue of Way of the Rat! I really like the way the storylines segueway and flow into each other... there's very little let-up in the action. My only complaint is that the issues are a bit on the short side -- I tend to breeze through each new issue in 10 minutes. Is this true of other CrossGen titles as well?

JSA and BoP this week were both a little blah. The Black Reign storyline in JSA and Hawkman (normally two of my favorite titles) just isn't really doing it for me... yet.

But I DID really like the stand-alone issue of HUMAN TARGET that came out this week! Interesting and provocative writing by Peter Milligan, and I'm a big fan of Cliff Chiang's art (e.g., BEWARE THE CREEPER)...

I think that 15 to 20 minutes is about average on an issue. Maybe its because they don't have the ads to break them up like DC and Marvel do. It doesn't seem to bother me as much on CrossGen as compared to the other companies.

I felt the same way. Im just anxious for Black Reign to be over with. Although I have to wonder what, if any, role Obsidian will play...

I think part of the reason for my blah-ness over BoP is the fact that the art has been done by two different people for the last two issues. This is something I find jarring and really don't care for... even if I like both artists' work individually, I usually don't appreciate the mixing of different styles in one issue. Just a personal pet peeve, I guess...

This was a slow week... (I'm not 100% positive on the issue numbers, but I think...)

WildGuard #5
Ultimate Six #6
Legion #29

I thought Wildguard and Ultimate 6 was the last issue of those respective series. Boy was I surprised. So next month I will have the end of Wildguard, the end of Ultimate 6 and the End of the Darkseid storyline in Legion -all at once.

This was a pretty big week for me. In addition to the three books Ger mentioned, I also got Hawkman, JLA, X-Statix, and the 200th issue of Wonder Woman -- which I think I will go read now!

Picked up my last two week's worth tonight.

Legion #29 (my usual 2 copies)
Ultimate FF #2
Batman #623
Reign of the Zodiac #6
JLA #92
Superman #201 (cool retro cover)
Wildguard #5
The Walking Dead #4 (anyone know where I can find issue #2?)
Sojourn #31
Iron Man #76
FF #509
Adventures of Superman #624
Exiles #41

I need to cut back.

I got issue #2, which I thought was great. By the time issue #2 came out, though, issue #1 was nowhere to be found.

And, even though I got a copy of issue #4 on Wednesday, I never did see issue #3.

Frustrating!!!

Got a scanner Stu? If you'll scan me issue #2 I'll send you back issues #1 and #3. The only one I've missed, and never saw on any self, was #2. And the community I share my electronic versions with doesn't have #2. It must have been short-printed.

A relatively expensive week for me, with the two Prestige format Duck titles and the new issue of Previews:

Hawkman 24
JLA 92
Legion 29
P.S.238 5
Superman 201
Uncle $crooge 326
Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 641

I'm enjoying Black Reign, and I liked the Mr. Majestic arc in the Super-titles; not crazy about the current JLA arc.

Buy P.S.238 and you could become a Minion of Zodon!! (okay, that was actually a couple of issues ago, but Zodon does have a big role in the newest story)

I don't have a scanner... yet. I might buy one real soon, though! I'll let ya know when I do...

Huh... there weren't any at my store when I went this week. Did these two come out this week?

(And did they have any Don Rosa stories? If not, I'm not going to worry too much...)

Er, I haven't been to the shop in a while so got this lot all in one go:

(regulars)
Legion 29
Hero 12
Catwoman 27
Gotham Central 15
New X-Men 152

(ones I bought just to have a look at)
Supreme Power 6 (Just coz people on here were enthusing about it. I really liked it! Cheers guys!)
X-Statix 18 (probly won't be continuing with this now the current storyline has ended)
Rose and Thorn 2
Wonder Woman 200 (might come back next month)

Confirming: yes, these issues were both new January 28th. U$ contains a reprint of a two-page Rosa gag from the Gladstone days; WDC&S contains nothing by Rosa this month.

Thanks for the info! For some reason, my store didn't have either title this week.

But if there isn't a substantial Rosa story that I don't already have, I'm not going to sweat it...

Wow! LOTS of jaw-dropping moments in JSA #58. And I just about fell out of my seat when I saw the last page...!

It looks like I'm finally starting to get into Black Reign...

What issue did Black Reign start? And would I need any prior issues to understand the story?

JSA #56.

So it's been:

JSA #56 - Hawkman #23 - JSA #57 - Hawkman #24 - JSA #58 - and I think it'll end in Hawkman #25.

The main story really doesn't begin until JSA #57 (which is when things started to get good!). All you really need to know (other than who's who in the JSA generally) is that, in JSA #56, Black Adam and a bunch of his companions took back Kahndaq by force -- Kahndaq is Adam's homeland.

Maybe I'll check it out. Thanks!

Okay, just downloaded and read the first four parts of Black Reign. Pretty good so far. Maybe more like what we should have had for Dream Crime and the current arc in the Legion in terms of pacing. It was easy enough for me to get into, not knowing the characters that well (never been a big follower of the JSA). Now I just need to get my hands on JSA #58.