I've finally picked up From Beyond the Unknown #1 - the 100 page giant that has a new LSH story from the classic Levitz period. I had to order it from Midtown Comics because I was tired of the hold on new comics.
Vi is still in her Grell outfit, and Cham is still red, but Jacques is in it. So maybe it's around the Great Darkness Saga?
It definitely has a classic vibe to it - the effective teamwork, the danger of relatively nameless villains, some of the dialogue between Legionnaires.
Dawnstar is solid in it - her powers and her attitude really shines in it. Colossal Boy feels off. His dialogue is a little too 'dumb beefy cop' for me - rash and a bit of bluster.
All in all, 8 pages, 9 Legionnaires for $4.99. Which is not so bad if you consider the other 92 pages of story. Unfortunately I had the Adam Strange/Superman and the Katma Tui stories already.
I just picked this up off comixology (only .99 for just the Kamandi and Legion stories).
Definitely a brief but fun excursion into classic Bronze Age Legion. I really enjoyed it far more than anything in the current series!
Not quite the Legion but the Tornado Twins are currently appearing "The Flash" #756 (briefly) and #758 and looking like being in the next one or two issues.
Apparently in this version after Barry left them and died during Crisis they felt abandoned and were "saved" and trained/raised by "Uncle Eobard" Reverse-Flash and have now joined his Legion of Doom. This version aren't that keen on their Dad.
The question is: Will DC Comics ever stop doing these awful things to their characters? For that matter, will DC Comics even exist anymore in five years?
BTW Gemworld and Mordru get a reference in the Death Metal Guidebook.
Gemworld's still part of Earth, and one of the evil Batman characters killed his Earth's version of Mordru alongside the other magic users so he could become Bat-Mage
Agreed. Way back at the end of "Final Night" the comment is made that Superman and Batman are like the two heroes that everyone else follows one or the other, one representing hope for the best and the other prepare for the worst. In these more cynical days it seems that only Batman as seen as the model for the DC Universe. The backstories of the distorted alternate Batman characters from the first Metal were interesting as a sort of tragic what-if but I did not enjoy the crossover itslef and even now, having read it and looked back at it occasionally to remind myself, I cannot really remember the plot. This new round is totally unappealing to me.
Apologies if this should be or has been posted elsewhere, but just wanted to note that the first episode of Hulu's Dicktown has a cosplayer dressed as Mon-El and two characters exchanging a "Long Live the Legion" farewell. Thank you John Hodgman.
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Apologies if this should be or has been posted elsewhere, but just wanted to note that the first episode of Hulu's Dicktown has a cosplayer dressed as Mon-El and two characters exchanging a "Long Live the Legion" farewell. Thank you John Hodgman.
Funny they never created a Legion of Super-Villain Pets back in the Adventure days.
They regularly fought the Feline Five in All Pets Monthly, just after DC's Gorilla craze of the '60s.
Cheshire Cat: Teleporter Meow Mixyztplk: Sorcery Big Tom: Strength/ endurance/ bloody mindedness Schrodinger: Probability Manipulation The Claw: Claws of doom.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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