tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post7668913818020674550..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Review: Legion Of Super-Heroes #8Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-744576468241296822012-05-01T19:53:52.072-04:002012-05-01T19:53:52.072-04:00I perhaps focus too much on the good stuff in the ...I perhaps focus too much on the good stuff in the Legion series - like you, I really want to be knocked out by this comic. A co-plotter, or more input from the editor, may well be the way to go. Giffen back regularly would get a massive 'woo woo! from me.Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-41591862399826543652012-04-24T16:56:13.758-04:002012-04-24T16:56:13.758-04:00Thanks for follow-up.
Yes, I know people will und...Thanks for follow-up.<br /><br />Yes, I know people will understand and appreciate the relationship aspect of comics. What I wonder is whether people will understand what it means that Garth and Imra rescued Rokk. What it means that Jacques asked about Danielle.<br /><br />I think people shy away from the Legion because they think it is all sunshine/lollipops when it isn't. They also think it is continuity burdened - but no more than the intricate history of the X-teams I would say.<br /><br />Quality should trump any concerns. The first X-book I bought was Morrison's. I could care less about all that came before.<br /><br />I just wonder if the quality is where it should be. The 'blue man'/LSV story arc which closed the last book was pretty lackluster. And nothing has been fantastic here ... yet.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-16730640853879691132012-04-24T15:04:42.935-04:002012-04-24T15:04:42.935-04:00I agree about how this was a nice issue for showin...<i>I agree about how this was a nice issue for showing just what a family the Legion is. But does that resonate with people who don't know the Legion at all?</i><br /><br />Sure, why on earth not? There's no magic ingredient for pulling in an audience to a book as specialist as the Legion, it's a premise that is only ever going to be an aquired taste. I'm showing my age saying this but when I first saw the Legion it was like All-Star Squadron or Arak, a book 'out there' and very hard to get your head around. I looked at these books with some suspicion and fear as I felt they demanded special understanding to read and were too difficult and inaccessable to easily interest me. It's the same attitude a lot of the public have to science Fiction... they just don't understand it.<br />But eventually I DID start picking up odd issues of the Legion and All Star, I liked them but the switch to the Baxter format made it near impossible to get the Legion for me and it took a chance find of the early Infinity Inc to truly ignite my passion for the JSA. My moral in all of this is that these books are never going to be mass audience like X-Men or possibly Teen Titans but if the world they inhabit is solid and well crafted they <i>will</i> find their audience.<br /><br />Now having said that the marketplace we are in, especially with the Internet, demands constant overhype and 'big bangs', that's what the writer and editorial of the Legion must get to grips with. Better stories, more 'event' driven, and a bigger push for making a mark on the news sites. One rumor I saw recentlly has it that Keith Giffen might be returning to the book shortly - now <b>that's</b> the sort of thing that will draw headlines and get people talking. :)Dave Mullenhttp://www.comicboards.com/superman/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-65227671831220558972012-04-24T14:43:42.024-04:002012-04-24T14:43:42.024-04:00Thanks for the great comment.
I agree about how t...Thanks for the great comment.<br /><br />I agree about how this was a nice issue for showing just what a family the Legion is. But does that resonate with people who don't know the Legion at all?<br /><br />And I also don't know about the Five.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-41322408750503647042012-04-24T13:10:12.363-04:002012-04-24T13:10:12.363-04:00I've said all I have to say on Paul Levitz in ...I've said all I have to say on Paul Levitz in previous posts, but yes I do enjoy his Legion work. Like you however I come away with mixed feelings. He's a great character writer, much like other great teambook writers such as Wolfman and Claremont he knows how to put a believable character across with just a few words, it's just that his actual plotting is nearly non-existent. Like I've said before this modern Legion is very much the same as his Baxter series in the 80s, all good fun and a pleasure to visit this world, but storywise very very slow... There's so much competition now for the Legion, that's the real worry for me, this style of pacing isn't going to cut it in todays market, far too many other temptations.<br /><br />I really did like this issue though, some actual romance and a feelgood human read is unusual in todays nihilistic DCU, only Aquaman bucks the trend with his romance and a contented marriage making the book for me. This sort of character relations is what makes the best team books work, too many books today think you have to have everybody at each others throats and in constant turmoil and lonliness. The Legion is almost unique in this regard.<br /><br />It was nice to see Danielle Foccart get a mention, always liked her and wouldn't mind seeing her active again; though at the same time there are probobly too many members already with serving family. <br />As to the Fatal Five... it's weird - I'm sure the Five were active in this continuity, but trying to nail down when I last saw them I'm drawing a blank. Too many continuities sloshing around my head. :(<br />Surely we saw them in Legion of 3 Worlds... or not?Dave Mullenhttp://www.comicboards.com/greenlantern/noreply@blogger.com