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

Wasn't Zoe originally intended to be the Emerald Empress and they were going to show how she became the Empress. Then they switched gears. The story suffered for it, I think. In the long run it would have been better to just have an Emerald Empress from the beginning.

Hardest choice so far but I am plumping for 78

I know I shouldn't but I pick LSH #78.
No Superboy!
The less I see of him the better.

#78 is really tempting, as I actually think almost every member of the Fatal Five looks better on it than the original. I prefer my Empress's emerald, however, and that turns the tide against it.

oh oh oh thats HARD.....love both covers....sigh....oh boy.....I am more leaning toward ........


#78! that one is very hard! good one!

and also...sure real eerie looking at Ferro Lad as if he s very much alive. *brrrrr*

78 is flat-out superior art, and has Violet and Lu and Ayla on it, a good use of female characters, and no Superboy, and all sorts of cool stuff that makes me want to love it.

But Adventure has the Emerald Empress, and no stupid Liefieldian '90s-era pouches-for-no-darn-reason. So I'm gonna have to vote for the classic.

Up with Sarya! Down with pouches!

78 is the better art and no Superboy

Adv has Ferro Lad! but has the bad pink costume and white beehive hair

Tough call...I'll go with...78

I think it was more that the reboot Eye was just too darned powerful to be part of a team. The thing was a major source of Mordru's power and a threat to the entire Legion on it's own. Later when it did bond to the Empress, it was expressly depowered as a form of self-punishment or something silly like that.

That said, I'll still vote for the reboot cover.

The original Adventure cover get's my vote.

Tough one. I'll go with Adventure because it is the original. #78 is nice, though.

BTW, I'm a bit surprised by the number of negative comments regarding Superboy's cover appearances.

Dang but this one's not fair Lash!!! The Davis homage is beautiful, but I have to give it to the original: Adventure it is!

Adventure Comics.

I'm voting for Adventure comics, because it has Superboy and Ferro Lad on it.

Love both covers, but DID NOT LIKE reboot Fatal Farce of a story. Sooooooo Adventure it is.

They just started out with Vi as the Empress and I thought it was a great change of pace for a character that had been largely ignored in Adventure's beginning.
Zoe tried to take the Eye away from Vi, which I thought was very like her so I don't see that she was originally planned for the focus of the story.
Alot of story came out over the months and I loved it.

The new Empress was terrible, imo, because she was an unredeemable, unsypathetic character who's greatest love was killing, wetworks, style.

Anyway, it's certainly interesting how different people interpret and view, different stories!

I vote for Davis' cover even though I hate that Empress.

For what it's worth, I've always thought one of the coolest things about the old school Fatal Five is that each one of them was powerful/dangerous enough to be a threat to the Legion on their own. For the most part the team has been increasingly wussified over the years (especially Validus).

I'm picking the reboot one-- it has Lyle on it! Everyone else looks great, too. I can't stand that Empress, either... but the reboot Persuader (mostly very late reboot Persuader) is the only version of the character I ever enjoyed reading about.

About the ADVENTURE cover-- what in space is underneath their feet? Did the LSH upside-down spaceship land in bad '60's carpet factory?

I like the colors, though-- and Ferro Lad, Princess Projectra and Sun Boy.

I vote for 78, and I was surprised at what tipped the scale for me... the lack of a word balloon. The scene seems somehow more desperate as they head out in silence.

Plus, hey, helmet-less Mano!

I've always thought that was shadow, but that doesn't really make sense, since the Legionnaires shadows can be seen on top of it.

I knew this Face-Off was coming and it's as hard as I expected it to be.

LoSH #78 is one of the best cover homages ever IMO (and I also absolutely friggin' love the story inside that issue) so I'm tempted to vote for it for that reason alone.

But Adventure #252(?) is such a classic cover itself and deserves major props for being the original. As well as having an excellent use of colour and cool appearances by Jeckie and Andrew in their Adventure costumes.

But the perspective of LoSH #78 is what tips it in to the win column for me. I love the way the team are rushing toward the viewer slightly more than the overhead look that the Adventure issue has.

Homage or original? Tough choice. The posing and expressions just aren't pulled off well in the original. I'd say I remember the Adventure tale more for what's inside it than the cover and the LSH 78 more for its cover than for the story.

So in a cover faceoff, I'll go with the better cover and LSH 78.

Me too ... cover of LSH #78 for me as well.

I'll agree with that whole-heartedly, but there's "threat to the whole Legion" and then there's "threat to dominate entire galaxies".

It would be like if the Time Trapper, Mordru (Lo3W non-withstanding), Darkseid, Starro and the Infinite Man made up the Fatal Five.