Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes LSH cover FACEOFF!!!

I do like the edible cover, but Calorie Queen is so many kinds of untapped awesome I'm just surprised it took her this long to get the recognition she deserves!

Cal, Night Girl and Infectious Lass oughtta form their own team...they can be the kooky Charlie's Angels of the 31st Century...Tenzil's Molars? I dunno, I wouldn't wanna be calling any one of em a molar to her face...

DUH, editted cause I got carried away with waxing over how awesome the Legion Ladies are...so my actual vote goes for the Calorie Queen one. Plus I do love the bite taken out of the L too.

i really can't, why's it drawn with the root, i'm just reminded of bloody root canals!

#11. It looks like some kind of official portrait.

I think tenzil is clearly still loaded from the night before ..... issue 11 to 49!!!

or so i've heard people wear sunglasses when they've had a rough night.

#11... I love the little eye-stalk alien guy. Giffen used him fairly often in crowd scenes.

11 eats 49, 19 votes to 6!!

BBL with another FACEOFF~!

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The Servants cover... It was the first issue of my subscription. I remember looking at that cover and just thinking WOW!

I think the idea outmatches the execution on both of these covers but I'm gonna go with the Servants cover too 'cause it's a tad more exciting.

love em both but i like the excitement of the flying one.

i think the the forms on the servants ones are alittle blocky.

LSH 293,What a truly menacing cover it is,even Superboy has his back against the wall.

I don't recognize the flying one, and no matter how much I love the Great Darkness Saga, I think I'm voting for the flying scene.

The citizens pointing up at the heroes overhead evokes old-school 'It's a bird! It's a plane!' imagery, more recently evoked by Ross' painted covers in Marvels.

The flying one...here's why. I read a handful of Legion stories in my younger years...as I've detailed elsewhere. This was the first Legion cover I found again after years of not getting any new issues. I quickly got my dad to take me to a comic shop, which I had just recently found out esisted...and picked up evrything back to the great darkness saga.

This was one of the coolest things I had ever seen at that point though...The Legion was still around...and in their own comic!!!

I like them both. The Servants cover is quite powerful. But the flying one invokes the sense of fun that I associate with the Legion.

So I choose the Flying cover.

I like them both, but I like the flying one slightly better. The art is clean and it doesn't have Superboy in it, just Legionaires. I was always disappointed by the amount of space Superboy took up in stories that Legionaires coul have had.

I'm actually not crazy about either of them, but I'll taking the flying one, mostly for the inclusion of the crowd. One thing Giffen always excelled at was drawing interesting "civilians".

The flying one for me.

Tough choice.

I actually LIKE the flyby better for reasons others have already stated.

But I'm going to vote for the Darkness cover.
It's very ominous and ground breaking.
The Great Darkness Saga was a very different and wonderful story.

LSH #293 invokes more of an impulse to buy and read it for me.

# 293 just thrills me to bits!!

The first cover may have more action, but "the idea outmatches the execution" is right. The shattering text, rather than conveying a sense of danger to the organization it names, just looks cartoony.

The second cover doesn't say much about what's inside; in that regard, it's a "poster" cover like many of the Modern Age. That said, it's an atypical poster cover. It doesn't focus on the Legion, but on the crowd and the technological background. And it succeeds in making that look interesting.

The flying cover does what it sets out to do better.

The second cover's prettier, but it's very generic and not indicative of the story within. 293 is also simply memorable and instantly identifiable by a Legion fan. I would have to get my 313 out and open it to even tell you what happens inside (was it part of Omen & Prophet?!?). Definitely taking 293!

Wow, just when I think I have LSH fans figured out... I thought the GDS cover would utterly destroy 313, and so far that is not even close to the case! Which, IMO, makes things more fun!!

Anyhoo, I add my vote to the GDS (293) cover. At the time, this type/style cover was a first for the LSH, iirc.


SPECIAL INSIDERS SCOOP: the original face-off was going to be with 293 vs. the Lightle cover from MAGIC WARS that has the logo on the side of the HQ with dragons flying all around, but I switched at the last minute.

That would have been a game changer