Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legoin election...Legion Academy Series!!!

I think one of the interviews about this (or a NYCC panel) said there would not be any descendants of Superman or Batman in the Academy. So we probably won't see Laurel Kent... unless Jimenez puts her into the background or something.

Also, since Jimenez's interview, I Googled the characters I hadn't heard of like Westerner and Mandalla. They seem interesting and I hope to learn more about them in this new series.

Does anybody know if Phil's name is pronounced Jiminez or Himinez?

Ooh, I did this after reading your post, and know I know who these people are! (Although it took three websites before I got more than a name / micro-image for them!)

I kinda like the Westerner's powers, and his mystical background. Not at *all* what I would have expected from his costume, with the American eagle motif, which, for some reason, made me think his power would have something to do with guns or cowboys or something...

Mandalla seems like she'd be pretty much outclassed / redundant in a team with Saturn Girl and Sensor Girl (and Tellus, if he ever gets around to using his telepathy that way). More importantly, her origin didn't exactly set me on fire.

Visi-Lad looks intriguing as well (DC's answer to the Mutant Force member 'Peeper'), and his mysterious 'abandoned on the doorstep' origin is pretty old-school, and yet unique to the Legion.

Share the pictures, please?

I thought Mandalla was dead, killed in the female Fatal Five story. Is that the right character? She was a telepath.
Nor is Visi-Lad, and dislike Laurel Kent , instead.

And maybe, Rokk demoted to make sure that new Legionnaires had the best chance possible not to die in the first months of their joining the main group, like Pol did.
And/or he wanted to get away from the Imra/Garth thing and marry Lydda.

Anyway, the only one I hope I don't see is Cannus , I'm afraid.

^ I love Cannus!



But don't worry - that's probably the most you'll ever see of him for a long, long time.

Would love to get a Laurel Gand back in this book sometime too but I'm not gonna hold my breath for it. Not with DC's insistence that Crop-Top girl has to be a member of every team in the DCU.

I don't know anything about the Westerner or Visi-Lad or Mandalla so it will be interesting to see what their stories are in the new book.

P.S. Candle - the blonde, telepath who died in the 'new Fatal Five' arc was Mentalla.

I love Comet Queen so much I had her join the Legion in my fanfic series. I will be parsed to the N-square if she is the fan fave they're talking about.

Bouncing Boy as a GL...hmmmm dunno if I love it. Actually, I'm pretty sure I don't love it.

I would however like it if they made Tyroc a GL as a nod to John Stewart.

I have also thought about the leadership question a lot, and I think I will be voting for Ayla. Of all the Legion in all incarnations, I think she is the one most deserving of a leadership role who hasn't had it yet.

EDIT: Oops, got the Stewarts mixed up first time round

I've decided on Ayla as well, Razsolo. I want to see her out from under her brother's shadow once and for all.

I think you're thinking of Mentalla.

This is a Spanish surname, and in Spanish it is pronounced hee-MEH-nehs if you are Latin American, or khee-MEH-nehth if you are from Spain. Don´t know how it is pronounced in English, sorry.

At SDCC Levitz pronounced it with the H sound.

... and please remember the accent is on the second syllable, as pointed out by Doctor One. It drives me NUTS when anglos put the accent on the first syllable!!

I'm sure Comet Queen has her fans, as all the established, "older" academy students probably do. She's not my own personal favourite, but so what?

I suspect one of the newer students we saw in LSH #6 might get a promotion to full-fledged Legionnaire status sometime soon. Just a hunch.
I just hope Paul doesn't do this just to turn around and have him/her die saving the universe or something like that.
I'd like to see the new students fleshed out a bit first though in the pages of Adventure before any of them becomes a true Legionnaire.

My guess is that Gravity Kid will be the first student promoted (to fill the void left by Star Boy's absence).

Maybe they'll let the readers vote on which student should "graduate"?

Oh that's a great idea EDE!

Legion Academy takes over the Adventure title with #523:

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/paul-levitz-legion-academy-101101.html

Hmm... it seems like Paul has forgotten about Night Girl having graduated up from the Subs in Geoff's stories. That might explain why we hasn't been around.

Love that the Legion Academy will take over the entire Adventure book, and not be a 'co-feature,' and love that Phil Jiminez is called out as the regular artist!

Woot!

Me too Set! I think of all the opportunities that a second monthly book will bring to the Legion. Think of all that character development we'll HOPEfully be seeing. (Subs, Academy students, maybe even some people we've all been clamoring for like Matter-Eater Lad, Blok and Black/White Witch).
The possiblities are endless, really.

It's all in the hands of the writer(s) now with who they want to focus on ... plus a little push from all us LWers breathing heavily down their necks.

Phil's on facebook so if you already added Paul might as well add him too

I love the Legion Academy concept. I have always thought it would have worked as a title on its own long before Xavier's students became X-Men, but is the concept short sighted? Is every student's goal to graduate to Legion ranks? How can the Legion title sustain all the new members that could be added to their ranks? Could their be another exit strategy for some of these students? Maybe some would like the training the Academy has to offer, so that they would be better prepared to become defenders of their homeworld.

Shadow Kid was an academy student, with no plans to join the LSH.

My guess is some of them might want to just learn how to control their power enough to cope in every day life.
There are many though that dream of joining the Legion full-time, so the academy is the best place for them to not only master the use of their power(s) but also develop the smarts needed to stay alive in a dangerous universe.
Who better to act as mentor than an experienced Legionnaire such as Cosmic Boy, Duplicate Damsel, Bouncing Boy, etc.

I don't think there is a member limit anymore (didn't it used to be 25 members maximum at one point, for tax purposes or something?). There would be no harm in the regular Legion expanding their ranks while being careful not to allow inexperienced youngsters seeking fame and glory in at the same time. That would be a tragic end for that person.

In my opinion heroes like Comet Queen, Power Boy, Lamprey, Crystal Kid and Nightwind would probably be ok to join conditionally since they've been around for a while and seen a fair bit of action already. Maybe they could each be assigned a proctor to monitor their performance for a specified period of time/probation.

Allowing any of the new students we saw in #6 to become full members would be a mistake in my opinion, no matter how cool of "wow" their powers might be. Give them some time to really train and learn.

Being an academy instructor/mentor would be a huge responsibility, I would think.

I do kinda hope that it would work more like the New Mutants, in that the trainees would be more likely to move on to other teams, other careers, solo work, etc. with only the occasional graduate choosing to become an actual member of the Earth-based Legion team.

This would certainly make sense. DC could always do reader polls if they wanted to gauge a student's popularity.

I always liked the Shadow (Grev Mallor) Kid character. He was great at the academy as he built a short lived friendship with Pol Krinn. Grev always had that "I don't take crap" attitude. I would have loved to see how his character interacted with the similar no-nonsense Myg...but I guess there's no chance of that now.