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I am pretty sure Polar Boy was known to Superman before that, for being part of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. Superman even meets with them and Ambush Bug in DC Presents 92 (?). So, if Sensor was known before joining, it still doesn't contradict the time period.
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Originally posted by PenaltyKillah:
Incarnations? What incarnations?
If DC's beating the same bush to say every era of the Legion are just temporal duplicates, then it really just simplifies things. Nothing's canon or non-canon, since it's the future. A combined Legion continuity, made out of every era - an array of what-ifs and what-nots, thought the most natural progression would be the early Swan/Shooter years, then the '90s reboot, followed by Threeboot, then '70s Legion-onward as an apparent future (or currently being reimagined in Shooter's current run), as well as 5YL & LS - these two diverging paths are even better examples of Hypertime. In spirit if not in story detail, I thought the natural progression was threeboot-reboot-Silver Age. It's what I've used as the basis for my ideal Legion concept.
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Originally posted by Triplicate Kid: Originally posted by PenaltyKillah:
Incarnations? What incarnations?
If DC's beating the same bush to say every era of the Legion are just temporal duplicates, then it really just simplifies things. Nothing's canon or non-canon, since it's the future. A [b]combined Legion continuity, made out of every era - an array of what-ifs and what-nots, thought the most natural progression would be the early Swan/Shooter years, then the '90s reboot, followed by Threeboot, then '70s Legion-onward as an apparent future (or currently being reimagined in Shooter's current run), as well as 5YL & LS - these two diverging paths are even better examples of Hypertime. I think reboot was where the Legion has been on its most teenage (disconsidering Adventure Comics, of course). Also, threeboot seems to be set at a more advanced period - I'd guess some characters might be on their early 20s. Thus, I could never place Reboot after Threeboot.
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Originally posted by Set: Originally posted by Not-So-Bad Lad:
I thought the Action Legion was taken from a time period before Tellus Quislet and Blok joined,
Blok was also well before that group. Character-wise, he was kind of winding down by the time Polar Boy joined, actually. Quislet and Tellus joined after. Polar Boy does have a statue with the others in the FoS. Originally posted by Ricardo: Originally posted by Triplicate Kid: [b] Originally posted by PenaltyKillah:
Incarnations? What incarnations?
If DC's beating the same bush to say every era of the Legion are just temporal duplicates, then it really just simplifies things. Nothing's canon or non-canon, since it's the future. A [b]combined Legion continuity, made out of every era - an array of what-ifs and what-nots, thought the most natural progression would be the early Swan/Shooter years, then the '90s reboot, followed by Threeboot, then '70s Legion-onward as an apparent future (or currently being reimagined in Shooter's current run), as well as 5YL & LS - these two diverging paths are even better examples of Hypertime. In spirit if not in story detail, I thought the natural progression was threeboot-reboot-Silver Age. It's what I've used as the basis for my ideal Legion concept. [/b] Well, I considered age ranges of the various eras (for 3boot, Kitson says : "...about fourteen into their early twenties..."), as well as the potential readability of past stories. (No matter how gritty it was, DC had made it possible for '40s Wonder Woman Christmas tales to be canonical) The progression from a 'Clubhouse' in the Swan/Shooter years, to a U.P. organization by Reboot, then demoted to something of a guerrilla in Threeboot, seemed to make sense. And personally, the Cockrum Legion looked a bit older than 3boot. Naturally, drawing styles of the past tend to make characters seem older or younger than intended. Who'd have believed Atom's Teen Titans were only sixteen, or the pre-Young/Ramos New X-Men were underage? To me, Curt Swan's Legion didn't give the impression of a group of sweet sixteeners. Plus, the recurring simple-minded theme of puppy love back then would be better suited in today's sexed-up society, if they were at a younger age. Fyi, the Legion actually began with two parallel continuities (as in simultaneous publishing eras)... each with a Super of either gender.
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