This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Adriana and Kristen – The Super Future Friends – join the Major Spoilers Crew for an in-depth discussion of The Legion of Super-Heroes #1 by Paul Levitz that relaunched last week (May 19, 2010).
Fan-favorite LEGION writer Paul Levitz returns to the 31st century super team he made supreme with an all-new intergalactic era! This exciting series picks up on threads from Geoff Johns’s “Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes” storyline and creates its own all-new ones, including a Green Lantern Corps tie-in and the destruction of a major planet! Rocket on board here as Levitz and rising star artist Yildiray Cinar (TEEN TITANS) revitalize one of DC’s most beloved franchises starting with an oversized first issue with a Variant cover by superstar artist Jim Lee!
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I’ve never read Legion before and thought that this issue would be a great jump on point. I don’t really see this comic as a jump on point but rather a continuation of a prior story arc that they decided to renumber the series with. I have no idea what the story with Earth-man is and is Saturn-girl still in the Legion or is she off doing her own thing? What would you consider to be a good jump on point for Legion of Superheroes?
P.s. – if you could, what is the Time Institute? Is that like S.T.A.R. Labs of the future?
The Superman and the Legion of Superheroes trade, from the Johns’ penned Action Comics run is probably a good starting point for this current volume. The Earth-man story is from there, and it sets up this version of the Legion and the current state of the Legion “universe” pretty well.
And yes, I agree that it wasn’t really a brand new start, like the last two Legion #1’s, but rather a continuation of the retro-boot Legion that John’s has been setting up for the last couple of years. I didn’t get the sense that one needed to be steeped in the history of the Silver Age/Bronze Age Legion to understand what was going on, though. It was a much better “jumping on” point that say Legion #1 from the Baxter run, which was heavily tied into 20 some years of continuity.
Thanks alot. I’m heading to WWPhilly soon so i’ll look for it there. I know this is kind of pathetic but a lot of my knowledge of Legion comes from Superman TAS, JLU and the Legion cartoon. Then from reading JLA: Lightning Saga.
Also wanted to say. I wish I got the Jim Lee cover instead of the regular one. That is a beautiful picture.
Yeah, that Jim Lee cover is awesome.
The Superman & LOSH trade will also clue you in as to why Sun Boy was so hostile to Earth-man.
Regarding the book itself, I’d give it a solid 4 slices of meatloaf. The only real negatives for me was Brainy’s characterization (little too unstable for my tastes) and the way Cinar drew Ultra Boy.
Yeah. Is Brainy always that kind of jerk? From my other experiences with the character, i thought he’d be … less of a D-bag.
He can certainly be a condescending D-bag a lot of the time, but I don’t remember him ever being quite that hyper emotional. Some of that was certainly how he was drawn in some of those pannels.
But there’s a lot of Legion I’ve never read, so that probably comes from somewhere.
I read the 3-booted Legion(good until “mr.never was breastfed or something” came on board) and Legion of 3 worlds and sorta know what’s going on here, but I could have still used a page of “previously on THIS Legion”. Looking forward to the podcast so I get the whole history behind Earth-man. Plus hey, a girl/s other then Rodrigo on the podcast is always good ;-) *cyber cookie to anyone who gets the ref*
P.S- In Crisis on Infinite Earths we see that the hand at begining of time is the Anti-Monitor trying to undo creation, is this still canon or not?