Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Visionaries of Tomorrow Imagine the Legion as rendered by these artists

I'm not that close in feeling to any of the artists mentioned, although Brian Bolland, Art and Neal Adams, Jim Steranko and Kevin Nolan would certainly have wonderful and interesting versions.
I'd especially love Bolland and Nolan to give the Legion a try.
And one or both of the Adams do a Shady/NG story.

I'd kind of love to see the Legionnaires drawn by Eric Shanower (sp?).
I love his Oz stories.

I put him with Terry Pratchett as writer and put the magical/nexus Legionnaires on Disc world, with Eric as pencilor and Kevin Nolan as inker.

EMANUELA LUPACCHINO

SARA PICHELLI

NICOLA SCOTT

This might sound like an odd choice, given his proclivities for testosterone overload and gobs o' gore, but I'd like to see Greg Capullo draw the Legion.

His X-Force art was far better than most people seem to give it credit for. I've included a few choice samples in this post:

http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=913490#Post913490

And, although it seems to me like most of his fans are the kind of guys who would like to forget that Capullo ever drew the solo book for the gentle, gender-ambiguous-in-presentation Quasar, I don't think his Quasar art should be overlooked, much less forgotten, especially as it reinforces my conviction that Capullo'd draw a great Legion:

For one thing, he drew a guest appearance by Marvel's Legion analogs, the Imperial Guard:

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No IG members here, but a striking image nonetheless:

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Love this Capullo rendition of Her/Kismet & Quasar:



Given Capullo's love of horror, it's not surprising that he seems to have taken particular relish in this Quasar cover:



Ha, ha. Told'ja Quasar was gender-ambiguous:

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Here's some samples of Pichelli's work on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. And, yeah, it was a badly written comic, but I don't think her art can be faulted at all:

I did a search for Pichelli drawing DC characters. There wasn't much to go around, but I did find this very nice Wonder Woman sketch:



And, of course, to qualify to draw the Legion, you have to draw good teenagers. Here's a first-rate example from Pichelli's work on the IMHO highly underrated X-Men mini-series "Pixie Strikes Back":



And, finally, one more nice example, this one from "Runaways":

Cleome and Red already mentioned "Jazzy" Johnny Romita Senior.

I found out recently that, back in '65, when Romita accepted Stan Lee's offer to move to Marvel from DC (where he'd become one of the top romance artists, but had gotten bored,) he just missed out on a opportunity to replace Ramona Fradon on Metamorpho (apparently, that book's editor (George Kashdan?) was out of town at just that moment.)

Much as I love the Jazzy One, I don't think he'd have been a good fit for Metamorpho.

The Legion, on the other hand...wow, if he'd come aboard right around that time, and he had replaced John Forte instead of Curt Swan getting the Legion gig...with Johnny's friend Frank Giacoia inking...MMM-MMM-MMM!

Of course, this is all pie-in-the-sky hypothesizing, and taking into account that working for Old Man Mort was a nightmare (even Swan, who had a much thicker hide than the rest of Mort's go-to artists and writers, got an ulcer from keeping a stiff upper lip to Mort's abuse.)

Still, it's fun to imagine.

(And Romita did actually draw the cover of 2003'a Supergirl #80, Peter David's final issue, with inks by Jose Marzan.)

What would they draw?

Jack Kirby - A Great Darkness Saga
Carmine Infantino - XS!
Nick Cardy - A Lamprey special
Berni Wrightson - Either a Chlorophyll Kid meets The Green story, Soljer's War or a v4 Dirk Morgna on the loose.
Bruno Permiani - Animal/Vegetable/ Mineral Lad joins the Legion!
Mike Sekowsky - The Legion lose their powers and have to rely on their Karate Kid training.
Alex Toth - v4 - moody shadows form the master.
Will Eisner - World's Finest Batman in a Metropolis Murder Mystery.
Gil Kane - The secrets of Imsk!

Bruno Premiani would've made all the various Lasses and Girls look *gorgeous.*

Mike Sekowsky would've drawn the fattest, most out-of-shape Karate Kid ever seen (Remember his Batman from JLA?)

Gil Kane doing the Vi/Yera storyline would've been great, especially if someone other than him had done the inks.