Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been mulling over the upcoming end of DC’s ‘Legion of Super-Heroes’ title, and what (if anything) it means to me and to the comics industry.  I started reading Legion sporadically in 1982, but the book has been continuous part of DC’s publishing line since the characters stole Superboy’s title from him back in late 1979.  Of course, there are still rumblings that the cancellation will be followed by a launchbootvamp of a new iteration of the LSH in the near future, but the question that keeps occurring to me is whether it was difficult for the people behind the New 52 to axe a property with that kind of longevity.  The Legion as a concept not only predates the Internet, it has been part of DC’s shared universe through something like eleven presidencies, and four universal reboots, but I can’t decide whether or not that seniority works for or against the property in the free marketplace…

The MS-QOTD (pronounced “kwerl docks”) would like to point out that The Simpsons has been on the air since the Reagan administration, asking: Should the longevity of a property matter in decisions of whether or not to cancel/continue it?

A wise man once said: “Where goeth The Legion, there goeth comic books…  Eventually.”  Okay, maybe it’s a little presumptuous to call myself wise, but at the very least I’m vaguely shrewd, at least in the ways of pop culture and the super-capes.  As a boy, I was fascinated by the fact that, while the Avengers had five members and the JLA nine, the Legion consisted of nearly TWO DOZEN heroes on active duty, as well as other rotating in and out as guest-stars here and there.  With the news that the Marvel NOW! relaunch of Avengers would have EIGHTEEN members, I smiled inwardly, awaiting the rage and vitriol of the non-Legion-innoculated public.

The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) got it’s Great Darkness Saga in your Five Years later, asking:  When it comes to a single group or title, how many heroes is TOO many heroes?