Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Legion WONT be starring in adventure according to Didio....

It's weird. I've been the guy who's been saying that DC doesn't know what they're going to do with the Legion, and yet with this news about Adventure, everyone else is getting a lot more ticked off than I am.

It's obvious that DC is up to something with the Legion. It also seems that (unsurprisingly) they don't have all the details down yet. I say we don't sweat this transition period. We can just ride the waves until the water settles down. Which it will...

...eventually.

I dunno. Everytime someone said that Legion was dying and that Didio was weasel-speaking, they were told that 'there's no way DC would do this!' and that they should 'trust them' and not be so negative. And, so far, the news has ended up every time being *worse* than even the 'negative' sorts were predicting.

Adventure Legion, which was like a ray of hope, turned out to be a bait and switch.

Didio has very carefully chosen his words to leave crumbs of hope lying around, but when his big promise consists of incredibly non-specific phrases like 'the Legion has been around for years and is important to us and you'll definitely be seeing more of them,' it doesn't inspire any trust in me, considering that 'seeing more of them' could mean 'in a couple of years' or 'after I'm dead' or 'in your sugar-plum dreams.'

And now that the only concrete promise he did make, for at least the first six issues of Adventure to have the Legion (which he said very specifically, which, to my mind, meant that he never really planned for issues 7-infinity to necessarily have any Legion presence at all), has turned out to be vaporware, I'm even less inclined than before to expect anything *unpromised* from him.

I've read his interviews, and almost all of them have been the sort of generic not-promising-anything-but-hopefully-you'll-fall-for-it-again weasel-speak that gets a Wikipedia article pulled. Or a politician elected.

If you people have read the latest DC Nation column, you must finally concede Dan Didio has no clue whatsoever about what will happen to Legion in the next few months.
I bet they are juggling with the idea of retconning Superman/Superboy in or out of Legion, or doing Mon-El as the Seeder of the World and this is probably reworked on a weekly basis.
We have lots and lots of hints on how out of control things are right now (late books galore, new announced books being indefinitely on a hiatus, ADV being changed completely at the last minute, Shooter having a new orientation every other month etc - or even being trampled by Johns in his FIRST month on the book!).
Superboy (our board friend) might even have some reason about the litigation, but problems are running much deeper for DC. It seems that since Infinite Crapis things have gone astray as far as management goes.

Did anyone catch the panel discussion that Didio and Ethan Van Sciver did a short while back and was published on Wizard's website?
[WWLA] DC NATION PANEL : COMICS

Interesting information there if you scroll down to where the conversation switches to the Legion. Dan and Ethan ask fans what they think of the Legion in their many past versions, and how the fans would react to a new book starring Superboy and the Legion, etc.

I only bring this up because obviously it is something on the minds of DC staff, so let's hope and pray that something good comes out of all this veiled, mysterious, double-talk that DC has been throwing around lately.

Sorry, here is the correct link:

www.wizarduniverse.com/031408dcnation.html

My point is, it doesn't matter what DiDio says, because DC brings everything back. And when it comes to something as prominent as the Legion, it will always be brought back and returned to prominence. If DiDio and the other DC editors can't get their ducks in a row, then that reflects badly on them, but it doesn't change the fact that the Legion will inevitably return to its place as one of DC's ongoing series. If not sooner, then later.

Yes, but will the time off hurt the mag or help it. Lost momentum could mean thirty years before the book is brought back, and then it could be a bastardized version. Look at JSA and Firestorm.

I have a suspicion that this is what might happen - hasn't Alura said that they have bottled Braalian and Winathian cities from Brainiac? Not a small leap to see Mon-El finding new worlds for them.

Whenever I think about the comics that I buy, I always have a great fondness for the DC ones, and I would certainly say that I'm more of a DC person than Marvel... but if that's the case,how can the majority of my collection be of the X-Men and that family of books? What do Marvel do differently (other than the obvious, that they haven't rebooted their universe several times)?
Why on earth are they replacing Wally as the Flash? He's been the Flash for 22 years! Doesn't that smack of desperation, and ultimate The Grass Is Greener On The Barry Side Of The Fence? Same for the Legion, they seem to run out of ideas, and then panic and try to change something instead of working on it to improve it.