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I'm just now clueing into this. I've got to get my internet time better organized.
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Originally posted by Superboy:
It would be insane if we could get Ivan Reiss...
I look at it though and the list of artitst that have said they would do the Legion again or like to work on it, is an impressive one.
#1. Mike Grell has said he'd do it again.
#2. Keith Giffen has said he'd do the Legion again.(he wasn't clear on writing or art though).
#3. Jim Lee has said he'd like to do the Legion(although he might have satisfied his urge after working with Levitz on that one story and he's not exactly great at meeting deadlines).
#4. Dan Jurgens has said he's always wanted to work on the Legion regularly and the only reason he's never done it regularly is because he was never asked to. Dan Jurgens is a Legion fan from way back as evidenced by his letters in old 70'
s Superboy lettercols...he's an extremely under-rated artist who is extremely fast, and can change his style within his style like few others, and he definitely has a classic clean style.
#5. Oliver Copiel has said he'd like to return to the Legion someday(I was hoping for he and JMS to get a stab at this Legion). He might be the one dirty artist who can pull off the Legion....he was my favorite artist of all the post Crisis Legion artists. Nice list I'd like to add Gene Gonzales to it,He's a big fan who can't seem to get the Legion bug out of his system. http://genegonzales.blogspot.com/
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Our Mr. Kayak asked a question in this week's Q&A with DiDio on Newsarama: Mr. Kayak wrote:
Who will be drawing Paul Levitz's Adventure Comics?
DiDio: We don't have an artist finalized right now, but we guarantee there will be an artist on board, and once we're ready to announce what issue Paul will be taking over with, we'll have the artist attached at that time.
Nrama: Does that mean Paul doesn't take over with Adventure Comics #7 once Geoff Johns' is gone after Issue #6?
DiDio: He will not be jumping on with Issue #7. He'll be coming on a little bit later down the line. There will be a couple of issues and an event taking place, a separate story arc, involving characters tied to the current goings on in the New Krypton storyline that's unfolding in Superman right now.
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DiDio: We don't have an artist finalized right now, but we guarantee there will be an artist on board, Oh, well that's comforting. I was afraid there wouldn't be any art on the pages, just word balloons and dialogue!
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Given that Originally posted by Matthew E: Our [b]Mr. Kayak asked a question in this week's Q&A with DiDio on Newsarama: Mr. Kayak wrote:
DiDio: He will not be jumping on with Issue #7. He'll be coming on a little bit later down the line. There will be a couple of issues and an event taking place, a separate story arc, involving characters tied to the current goings on in the New Krypton storyline that's unfolding in Superman right now.
Sour.[/b] Given this news, I wonder if Paul's first issue will be out in time for us to gush over (and get signed) at San Diego next year.
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Oddly enough, with him leaving the book, geoff Johns says in an interview for Wizard that there's plans for the Legion outside of Adventure Comics, that the first six mini-stories are leading to a bigger story, that two Legionnaires will change and that there will be new Legionnaires.
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Originally posted by Pariscub:
Oddly enough, with him leaving the book, geoff Johns says in an interview for Wizard that there's plans for the Legion outside of Adventure Comics, that the first six mini-stories are leading to a bigger story, that two Legionnaires will change and that there will be new Legionnaires. This clearly ties into what Robinson is doing with Superman. Presumably Levitz is letting this run its course. If the previews are to be believed, a Green Lantern is joining and Blok is obviously changing. The likelyhood is that the Black Witch persona won't last.
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Originally posted by Ricardo:
And DC is to blame for reboot, not necessarily Waid. "...all the continuity changes and flip-flops have made the Legion's history an unsalvageable mess. Continuity wasn't "in bad shape." It was Chernobyl. This revision wasn't a decision made lightly; KC Carlson and Tom McCraw and I spent literally hundreds of man-hours over the past year trying to come up with a less drastic solution to the continuity problems than simply wiping the slate clean, and we could *not find one.* [...] I'm sorry if I sound cranky, but this wasn't an editorial fiat from DC. This drastic change was my choice, and DC chose to back me." (Mark Waid, 1994)
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From Newsarama -
Former DC publisher Paul Levitz will be writing three annuals in 2010 for DC Comics, one of which will include "Batman Beyond."
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Levitz will also be writing an Adventure Comics Annual that will be setting up his upcoming run in Adventure Comics, DiDio said.
"So really, his run kicks off with the Adventure Comics Annual first, then it goes into Adventure Comics," he said. "And as we realized by chatting, I believe this is the first Adventure Comics Annual ever, which I believe is also very exciting that Paul gets to do that."
Artists for the annuals were not released, and the third annual written by Levitz, the title of which remains unannounced, will come later in the year.
DiDio also gave hints about who would be handling writing chores on Adventure Comics following Geoff Johns' departure from the title and before Levitz comes on board, and what those stories will tie into. Check later for more details in today's "10 Answers and 1 Question" on Newsarama.
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I would read a Jam/Legion crossover. Even if the former is a product of  Canada. 
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From CBR, The Future is Calling: Paul Levitz "Beyond" -
In an exclusive first interview since his return to full-time writing, Levitz told CBR News that he plans to pick up on some plot threads he left dangling from his previous runs on "Legion of Super-Heroes," hopes to introduce at least one or two new Legionnaires and is going to "blow some stuff up real good."
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Due in large part to the size of the team and a continuity that would make some readers' heads explode, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a different beast than the Justice League or even Justice Society. That said, readers that love Legion, really love Legion. What is it that you love about them, and how do you make them work in a team book?
It's the same thing. The virtue and the challenge of the series is its enormity. You just have such depth of material to work with that, as a writer, you can sit there and say, "Whose life haven't I screwed up lately?" And it's really the equivalent of being able to put yourself in the middle of a high school and play with the entire grade. And tinker with it that way. On the other hand, "[Whines] You've got to know all of their lives." And if the book isn't being written absolutely perfectly, which few of us do, that means when you first pick it up, it may mean, "Who are all of these people?" And, "How do I figure this out?"
I literally, as is well known, used a scorecard to write the book. Hopefully people didn't need a scorecard to read it.
I'm not sure what you can share in terms of storylines, but is there a nod to any of the plot threads from your previous work?
Right now, I'm still doing my homework. And trying to both read the material that happened in between and figure out how the DC Universe fits together and how the future fits, which is enormously challenging because, although I've been involved, obviously, with the DCU for the last 20 years, there's a difference between being involved behind a desk at a distance and being immersed in it as a writer or a reader. So I have a lot of learning to do before I figure out how all the pieces fit together, but I hope to return to some of the characters I love and explore some things that I hadn't got to.
I hope to also explore things and take advantage of how the medium has changed. Readers have different expectations. "Legion" was the second, direct-market only continuing book that DC launched when I was writing it. And I was talking with somebody the other day about that moment of time and saying, it was really one of the first handful of titles where you had to have an assumption that the readers were more than 10 or 11 years old. And we didn't set out to do anything X-rated, or even NC-13 rated, as a result, but it became, "Well, I can assume the reader will be able to understand something more complicated. I can assume they are going to come back month after month, and I can tell a more complicated interwoven story." Well now, 20 years later, you can obviously make a far more complicated set of assumptions about who our readers are. We know the level of sophistication is enormously greater. So how do you write for that fully? How do you take the best advantage of it?
Are there any specific storylines you can tease for "Adventure Comics?"
I can tease you, but I don't know. I came up with a title that I really liked to potentially use on the annual yesterday (Wednesday), which I'm not going to share with you. My editor was very happy with it. We talked about the idea, and the title came naturally. And now I have to figure out how to make that work.
I think the thing to be effective with in the tease is to say, it's my hope to pick up on all the existing plotlines that I can find and identify. It's my hope to touch as many of the characters as possible within the first few issues. The first time I did a "Legion" annual, which was actually the first annual DC ever did back in, God, '81 or '82, I managed to get every single active Legionnaire at that time in that annual for at least a cameo. I don't think I'm going to try that trick again. It worked that week. I am hoping to have at least one or two new Legionnaires introduced through the course of my first year. And I'm going to have some stuff blow up real good.

Do you have a favorite Legionnaire?
It really depends on who I am writing. In the story where Dream Girl won an election on ballot stuffing, but it was the kind of ballot stuffing that we didn't have the sense to identify in the rules as being against the rules, so I felt obliged to do it. I'd never really cared for the character before that, and God, did I have a ball with her. And I think the readers did ultimately, too. So, some of them you just discover along the way.
Do you know when the artist you're working with will be announced?
I know the guys have a pretty solid idea of who they want as the primary artist or two. But with the number of pages we're looking to produce, it's unlikely in today's world that any one artist can do it all. But I don't know when they are going to announce any of that.
I'm an unusually ignorant writer of the process, considering what I've been doing for all of these years, because I've really seen the process from a whole other direction. And for the most part, you're a writer and you're getting your first big assignment in a number of years, you've been sitting on the sidelines watching.
But I'm very anxious to please the readership and to give them a good ride. I always enjoyed the back and forth with the readers through the letter columns. It's one of the things that I miss about comics today. So, hopefully, that kind of dialogue will continue, whether it's through sites like yours or the DC Comics site or through conventions. I think the number of years I've been behind the desk makes it easy to forget that I was a comic fan foremost. The first fanzine that I did, that had a circulation of more than about four, had a huge one page article on the Legion in it that I did. This has been very much a piece of my life since I was a very little kid and it brings out my second or third childhood.
Currently in "Adventure Comics," Superboy is the main feature and the Legion is the co-feature. Understanding that the Legion will be moving to the main feature, will the title continue to have a co-feature?
I think the theory is that it's going to be pre-dominantly Legion material in the book. It's certainly possible that if, either I get into trouble, or the artist gets into trouble, or if someone walks into Dan [DiDio]'s office with some brilliant new idea, that he'll say, "Look, can we have a piece of space to tell this other story for a number of months?" No problem. But most of the time that I was writing the Legion, I managed to con the company into giving me more than 20 pages to do it in. I was on the book five issues before we changed it from 17 pages to a double-sized book back in the 1970s. And then we did the hardcover/softcover, and then we did matching miniseries and all sorts of tie-in stuff. And of course the Baxter book was, I think, 25 or 27 pages for most of its life. This is a large cast. There is a lot of room to tell a lot of stories. And I'll fill as many pages as I can get away with.
And again, you're starting the run with an annual, correct?

I think that's the plan. They're going to use a couple of issues of "Adventure" to wrap up the Legionnaires of the 20th Century plotlines that have been running in "Superman," which I think makes a lot of sense, because it will make my head hurt less. And I suggested the annual as a way to bridge in. We never had an "Adventure Comics" annual, so it gives us kind of a cool #1 moment to launch with and then we can dive in full strength.
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Sweet,I hope Paul proves you can go home again!
{I am hoping to have at least one or two new Legionnaires introduced through the course of my first year}
And he is looking to the future,in more ways than one!
More than one artist,I hope Gene Gonzales gets a shot,he's a crazy Legion fan,and a good artist.
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I think that's the plan. They're going to use a couple of issues of "Adventure" to wrap up the Legionnaires of the 20th Century plotlines that have been running in "Superman," which I think makes a lot of sense, because it will make my head hurt less. Oh, thank goodness. Wrap up as much of the current stuff as possible and move on to new stories set in the 31st century and focused on Legionnaires, instead of random 21st century heroes! For me, the biggest strength of the Legion as a storytelling 'stage' was that it could draw upon resources from all over the DC Universe without becoming hopelessly wrapped up in crossovers and stunt-casting, as it was 1000 years away from that sort of nonsense. I'm thrilled with a Legion that has a descendent of Superman hanging around or makes a passing reference to a many-times-removed-descendent of Batman, but not one that ends up sucked into whatever 'event' of the season is going on (with Laurel-Kent-as-Manhunter being the most egregious example of that going horribly wrong I can think of).
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I gotta say, Paul's love for the Legion just oozes from every word he says in that interview.
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This last interview (above) with Mr. Levitz is very encouraging and gives me new hope.
He clears up speculation that's been flying around since the changes in Adventure Comics were first announced, and that keeps things honest in my opinion.
So far so good.
Obviously he's as excited to be doing "his" book again as we are to have him back on it.
That enthusiasm will only work to his advantage.
Plus it sounds like he actually has a plan.... and that is always a good sign.
I for one am very pleased that Paul Levitz will be writing the Legion again and I cannot wait for it all to begin!
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Paul Levitz is the man! No, let me correct this, he is the Legion man!
What he's telling in the interview not only does give me hope, it also makes so much sense! And any issues with Legionnaires characterisation that people were having here with Johns on the helm - be sure, Mr. Levitz will use his intimate knowledge of classic Legion Lore to fix any inconsistencies...
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Legion is taking over Adventure? That's awesome! I've been saying for YEARS that they should give Adventure back to the Legion!
I can't wait for the annual!
Dream Girl won by ballot stuffing? I never knew that! I just thought she was really that popular and her winning the fan election is what it took to get the bozos at DC to actually realize it and start using her.
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Levitz (I always enjoyed the back and forth with the readers through the letter columns. It's one of the things that I miss about comics today. So, hopefully, that kind of dialogue will continue, whether it's through sites like yours or the DC Comics site or through conventions.)
I wonder if Paul knows about Legion World,and if he would ever grace us with his presence.
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I'm sure he knows about LW, just as I'm sure he visits!!
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Levitz' letters columns were awesome ways for him to communicate directly to fans back then... (same with the Bierbaums) I wish DC still had letters columns...
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