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ADVENTURE all the way. It's the original and has go-go checks.

The cover of # 352 has always bothered me. The issue introduces a major team of villains, and yet the cover is as mundane as can be. Instead of showing the Legionnaires squaring off against the F5 (as I imagined for years before I actaully saw the cover), it just shows the Legionnaires running off with pictures of the villains. Meh.

The cover for # 78 is worse. It's the same idea but with more garish artwork. The colors seem to belong to the pulp era.

I'll go with # 352.

You have to remember, though, that they aren't really a team of villains until the very end of the second issue. The cover does a good job of depicting what actually happens in the issue, namely the recruitment of five villains to help save the universe.

True, but covers are always symbolic anyway. When it comes to accuracy versus drama on covers, I think editors make the wiser choice in emphasizing the latter over the former.

The universe dying not enough drama for you?

Not when it's told instead of shown.

Normally, I wouldn't go for the homage over the original, but the cover to #78 does a better job of showing how tense the situation really is. So, it.

A tough one, but I'd go with the Adventure cover ...

forget how much I hated Vi's reboot uniform ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?

And I love the colors on the Davis cover.
The subtle blending in the violets and oranges is wonderful.
AND I was going to say how much I loved Vi's reboot outfit. I loved all of them, really.
Individual but with team like basics and young and fun.
sigh
The floor in Adventure looks like metal tiles with a raised design place in alternate directions for better footing/friction.
To me.

I take it back, Shady ... I could never disagree with you

though I could have done without the flower in her hair ... what next? A hula skirt?

Silly.


But that IS what young girls do, ya know.
They love flowers in their hair.
And the reboot Legion was very young.
I imagine in a year or so, she would have dropped the flower for a pullback or braid or something.

Adventure #352(?) is one of my favourite Legion covers precisely because the Legion aren't squaring off against the Fatal Five in a fight. Hasn't that cover idea been SO done?

This cover concept is completely unique and memorable IMO and the story elements it hints at (who are these new characters? heroes? villains? why do the Legion need to find them? how are they going to find them? will they be in danger splitting up?) make me want to read the issue a lot more than the prospect of yet-another fight would (not that I don't like a good fight in comics).

#78. I like the fact that the Leginnaires' faces are drawn as if the had emotions.

Adventure. i agonized over this one. i like them both very much.

don't like super boy or projectra's hair. but it has the Emerald Empress twice!

love alan davis yet, i've seen these poses way too many times from him. even though they are filled with tension and action. seems like they are hauling way too much nass though! why do they look like they are bolting haha

and hated the 'empress'. did she even have powers .... and Tharok's tank top is a big no no.

Actually, Sarya didn't have any powers either.
Everything she had came from the Eye, didn't it?

The reboot version was just a psycho BEFORE she got the Eye and liked doing the killing parts on her own rather than having the Eye do the job, I think.

The Adventure cover.

I think at one point she showed some eye-like energy radiating from her hands with which she attacked and knocked out either Sun Boy or Saturn Girl, I forget which, and she said something to the affect that some residual power from the eye remains in her for a short time after she utilizes it within close proximity to it at that time.
My recollection is cloudy at best, but you get the gist of it. She never ever pulled that trick again after that though.

#78 for me. I just plain like the style better.

But wasn't that part of the scam by Chu? There wasn't a Sun-Eater in the reboot, it was all just a ploy to get the Legion and the Five together so the F5 could get rid of them. Now why the Legion didn't question Empress's involvement is another matter (though they kinda did with the Espionage Squad one step ahead of Chu already).

Incredible. We have a tie, gang.

Both covers have 16 votes.

Can someone who hasn't already voted please make the tie-breaking vote?

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I will break the tie for voting for #78 because I love the purple costumes.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Nothing beats: "Legionnaires, to the space cruisers! Search the galaxy! FIND the FATAL FIVE...or the UNIVERSE dies!" Plus, I can't vote for a cover that is SO derivative of its inspiration (same with the story).

And you've got to love the fact that their image is on an easel. Unless that's just a 4-D Holo-image of an easel I suppose...