If you have the Monday blues – and, let’s face it, it’s very likely that you have, considering that it’s the start of another work week and everything – then why not combat it with some much-recognized comics awesome? Like this, for example:
The Legion of Super-Heroes is one of those things that you either completely buy into or think is confusingly lame, it seems; I’m firmly in the former camp, thinking that the series is one of comics’ greatest high concepts (“It’s teenagers! In the future! With superpowers!”) and loving the optimism and soap opera at the series’ core just as much as the spectrum of colorful costumes and superpowers that go from the classic and original to the ridiculous and amusing and back again. The Legion feels like the most superhero of all superhero comics to me, taking the basic ideas to the extreme and seeing what the result is when everything is turned up to 11. There’s little in superhero comics that is as awesome to me as the Legion of Super-Heroes.
February 13th, 2012 at 9:34 am
Nice one Graeme, I feel like it’s Rededication Day!
February 13th, 2012 at 9:48 am
I love the Legion. But the constant rebooting and shuffling the decks, combined with Levitz’s unfortunately dated writing style, have left me no longer reading a Legion book. I miss the first Waid reboot. I miss Johns’ gritty but oddly fun approach to the old version of the team.
And I figure that sooner or later, there will be another Legion I can get behind.
February 13th, 2012 at 10:50 am
I liked the Waid/Kitson Legion reboot (yes, I was the one). Bored teenagers inspired by comic books rebelling against adults. It was a refreshing new take on the concept that didn’t require understanding decades of back story. In a way, it was the first New 52 book.
Otherwise, I never got the Legion in its traditional form. It always felt like one of those wacky one-off 60s story ideas that worked as a single golden age Superman story, but unlike Titano the Super Ape, somehow it lasted.
February 13th, 2012 at 11:26 am
It would great to institute a Legion reading day! I agree Waid’s Threeboot Legion was fun and refreshing. It hit all of the right buttons. I also thought DnA’s Legion work was equally phenomenal. The Legion concept could be considered a “one-off concept”, however in the right hands it can be a vehicle for tackling contemporary issues in futuristic super hero trappings. I do think Levitz’s current LoSH series could have used a first issue that was more ‘new reader friendly’.
February 13th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I feel like Levitz has finally hit his groove with the current Legion series. The complexity is back. And the art has made a HUGE difference.
February 13th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
i see the legion in the same way i see modern day x-men: An awesome concept with some very good stories in its history, but so many characters with so much history i just cant keep up!
February 13th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
@Kyle Garret – I like some of the stuff Levitz is doing in the current LoSH series. Issues 1-4 did a good job of selling the idea of Mon’El as a leader. Mon’El is competent and confident but he can throw out a good barb or two. I feel that Legion Origin is moving too slow. Legion Origin is doing some fun character work with Phantom Girl and Brainy but the plot is not going anywhere.
February 13th, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Along with Neal Adam’s Odyssey the 3 Legion series are all that I currently buy from DC.
I’ll add Earth 2 and World’s Finest to that list in the future (and I’ll also add the crossover parts of the Teen Titans and the Ravagers).
I just can’t get into the other DC series and I’ve tried them all but for now I’ll wait to see what happens in the future that might cause me to venture back in full bore as in the past.
I’ve instead bought all of the available Fables collections and I’m enjoying reading them like I’ve just discovered comics instead of in 1960. I’m eagerly looking forward to the next shipment of Fables collections to hit, “bloody handed adversary” indeed! Great stuff!
February 17th, 2012 at 8:52 am
Confusing how Paul Levitz does half decent with LOSH but completely drops the ball with New Earth 2.
March 17th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
If the offender is breaking the law in some way, like living too close to a school, the police should be notified. If not, shut up and deal with it, as the offender has done his time and paid his debt to society. Sheesh.