Comments on: Legion Blogpost – Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds Hardcover

By: Doc_doom

Doc_doom — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:28:57 +0000

Decent art, but this story wasn’t good or I’ll say, enough of a game changer to justify how this screwed up the monthly.
And Levitz IMHO has lost it…his JSA run proved that.

Wake me up when DC and Geoff Johns apologize to Jim Shooter, and put him and Francis Manapul back on the Legion ongoing.

By: Daryll B

Daryll B — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:11:59 +0000

Again I maintain that for the true Legions explanation that is a fun story End of an Era during Zero Hour is the story for you. One of many stories that need to be collected from the Legion universe.

I disliked Lo3W mainly because my Legion (Legionnaires) were the ones who were used as cannon fodder and that whole ‘we got to redeem Supes-Prime’ premise. Right there is the type of thinking that makes me hate Superman at times. Sure he’s killed hundreds / thousands of times over but we can redeem him…UGH!

By: Ricardo Amaral

Ricardo Amaral — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:30:08 +0000

I actually supported both Waid and Shooter through the shenanigans DC put in their way to hamper their runs in exchange for a Johns-penned Legion that never happened. We had to have Justin Thyme to get a book Johns wrote for all the wrong reasons (for Flash, S-Prime and GL) and when he was about to get on it for real, he drops it in less than 3 issues.
So I don’t think I am the one to blame at never returning to the success Legion had: that’s DC’s fault.

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:19 +0000

You know, I’m starting to understand why this book has never returned to the success of its heyday, even as books like TEEN TITANS and BRAVE AND THE BOLD have. The very people who are needed to keep the title alive, are the ones willing to cannibalize it because it ain’t perfect. I hope none of you are the Democrats who bitched at me for voting for Nader.

By: Irwin Schwab

Irwin Schwab — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:01 +0000

Once again: Johns did not bring back the original Legion; he created a copy of them with a different history. Johns’ darlings will never be the originals. And that’s a good thing.

By: Ricardo Amaral

Ricardo Amaral — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:02:25 +0000

I don’t think Legion of 3 Worlds was either fantastic or even a Legion story. It certainly didn’t explain a bit about the real Legion that existed until Zero Hour, or why Johns chose his characters from his own muse (it doesn’t match with any specific moment in time, apparently – and, no, it’s not just before Crisis).
Continuity continues to be a problem to my eyes, so nothing was particularly solved. I’d rather see Legion becoming a “Tales of The Legion” kind of book than another misfire to be erased in the future. And I am still waiting for a Deluxe reissue of TMK’s Legion, the last real original Legion book that existed.

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:34:17 +0000

Yeah. I think I lost a paragraph. I’m looking forward to Levitz’s run, as I honestly think he can undo what’s been done to shift the 31st Century from a playground of wonder to the ghetto of the DC Universe…but I don’t know how much faith I have that it won’t get canceled before he arrives.

By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:29:00 +0000

This mini-series is the reason I’m NOT reading the current Adventure series. I will be picking it up once Levitz takes over, though.
Lo3W was just filled with so much melodrama, bad science, ovewrought continuity, and horrible character moments that I couldn’t handle spending $3.99 a month on 8 pages of my favorite DC characters by a writer who only seems concerned with his own version of the team (and I say that as pre-Crisis Legion fan).

By: ostrakos

ostrakos — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:24:25 +0000

Well, don’t forget that DC has already announced that major Legion-lore contributor Paul Levitz is returning to the characters. I agree that it could easily succumb as has happened so many times before with the group, but I will remain optimistic about him taking over the book.