Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Adventure Comics #517 - SPOILERS

He looks like a weight lifter/body builder/heavy laborer, certainly not a white collar type.

He looks like the granddad that Jo never had.

Actually, putting it like that makes Marla sound almost like a pedophile.

(Sorry, modern jadedness stepping in--oh, for the innocence of the Silver Age! )

No way! I totally bet he's the head of the Straight Buddies of Rimbor!

I don't think we care if he's straight or gay.
We just want him to leave kids alone, sexually!

Actually, putting it like that makes Marla sound almost like a pedophile. [Eek!]

(Sorry, modern jadedness stepping in--oh, for the innocence of the Silver Age! [Frown] )

So you came to Rimbor Looking for sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...have a cookie.

I don't know what DCs plan is with this book. Okay, the early years of the Legion are kind of hazy so it's absolutely okay to add some stories about them. But in my eyes, Adventure Comics introduces to many changes to the classic continuity. Brainiac 5 in the time institute, I can live with that. But meeting Superboy before Tinya and Luornu joined? Isn't that way too early? According to Secrets of the Legion (one of my alltime favorite minis), Superboy joined not before five others had become Legionnaires.

This book really does not make all that much sense... which is a pity...

Finally read this issue about an hour ago... and I'm already having trouble remembering what happened in it.

I wouldn't mind these retcons so much if they were in service of an interesting story - but Paul is telling some of the most boring Legion stories of all time here.

And yet, they could be SO good. The Adventure era is a goldmine of untapped potential. So many untold stories and characters we could be seeing.

And yet we're getting... this.

And now DC has announced that a new character is going to be taking over this book.

What a waste.

What? They're canceling the Legion feature? That totally SUCKS!!#@!!

^ Yes. It was announced at one of those Cons recently that a new character being introduced in the upcoming Flashpoint event will be moving from there to the lead feature in Adventure.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk of it here at Legion World actually.

Three months ago I probably would have been really disappointed at this news. But this latest run has made me realise I would rather read an OK story about just about any other character in the DCU than I would a crap story about the Legion.

Good riddance to bad Legion! I hope this whole stinking turd of a faux-Adventure arc is ignored as an embarrassing "chronicler's error" and never referred to again.

What scares me most is the thought that the horrible judgment Levitz has shown in Adventure will migrate to the main book. It's barely readable as it is. IMO.

"Barely readable" is a bit harsh, I think. I wish the art had been better. The stories weren't terrible. I do think they suffered in part because the pictures just didn't seem to be conveying what they should have a lot of the time.