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Gloria
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: Any Legion of Super-heroes around? |
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OK, ever since I saw a cover of Timber Wolf fighting his comrades in a Dave Cockrum drawn cover I've been intrigued by that group. I saw it as a child
The fact, though, is that I've never read a single issue. DC hasn't been published very well in my country, so my inner child's been pretty frustrated about that. Very recently, a few stories (by Mark Waid) have been published in Spain, but I don't seem to "get" them... maybe the old Silver Age style, and particularly, those storieswith Shooter and Cockrum around, are more my cup of tea... dunno.
Do you recommend me the "Legion of Super-Heroes Archives"? A bit expensive, I know...
Are the Alan Davis Legion issues good? (I'm a sucker for Davis)... if so, have the davis issues ever been collected in trade?
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Jim B.
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I have read some Legion comics over the years Gloria but I mostly read it for certain characters I liked. In the past, Superboy (the real Superboy) Mon-el the Daxamite with the same powers as Kryptonians and recently for Supergirl. I had trouble getting into the other characters in the book though, although some of them are not too bad. It has an interesting premise about a bunch of intergalactic superheroes fighting foes throughout the galaxy but I have always found the comic a bit on the silly side. If you are a fan of very serious style characters like Daredevil I'm not sure if you would like it or not. It also has probably the most messed up continuity and history of any comic book ever out there and that's saying something.
But you may like it I don't know because, well I don't know you.  I hope I was helpful to you anyways.
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Gloria
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| Jim B. wrote: | | f you are a fan of very serious style characters like Daredevil I'm not sure if you would like it or not. |
Hi Jim, Thank you for the feedback.
Well, it's true that I like more "serious" comics like Daredevil, I'm looking forward to the publication in my country of Criminal and Iron fist, and slowly gathering Brubaker's run on Catwoman as well.
So yes, I have a bent for adult-ish, noir-ish superhero stories.
But I like catering to the inner child in me as well. I remember liking a lot old silver-age superboy stories, such as the one in which young Clark Kent noticed that his parents were behaving a bit strange... It turned out that the real Ma and Pa Kent had been kidnapped, and were being supplanted by a couple of actors who wanted to find out the secret identity of Superboy -which they suspected to be related to the Kents-... And how did Clark find out? because the fake Ma Kent used hairpins, and the real Ma Kent would never do so because of Clark's heat vision heating them up every then and now.
... hairpins! do you realize it? What a touch of genius!! A story dealing with a superhero so powerful that he can erase a galaxy with a fart, or a grim n' gritty heavily armoured avenger would never bother with such a domestic detail at this naive story.
I know that such stories are dismissed by some people... you know, nowadays you can't have a hero with silly superpowers... when a concept as "Silly Superpowers" is an oxymoron! I mean, all superpowers are ilogical or silly to a degree, bt some creators of today seem to believe that there are "Serious" and "Silly" superpowers, thusly relegating to limbo Bouncing Boy, Porcupine Peter or Matter-Eater Lad... Do their powers actually make less sense than throwing electric bolts, turning invisible, shape-shifting or changing one's size? I think they don't, but some people seem to think that some ideas are less adult than others.
Yet I see nothing wrong in comics being innocent. If comicsdom only catered to an adult audience, the medium would be doomed: Comics for children are the ones who create the future readers... I mean, when DC is making child-oriented versions of their heroes for TV, they are enticing kids to try their not-so child oriented comics... I wonder how many people will ever read "Batman year one" because they had watched the animated Bruce Timm version of the hero.
I mean, if I ever read Watchmen or the Dark Knight, it's because earlier I had read -and enjoyed- "kiddies "comics, in fact, I don't mind alternating adult reads with the eventual all-ages stories like "Bone" "Asterix" or "Leave it to Chance", to name a few... So that's why I'm going to catch up with old Legion stories
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Jim B.
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Hi Gloria, I just thought you would want to know that Jim Shooter started to write the Legion monthly comic again starting with issue #37 (starting last month)
Here is a link to something from the DC web page you might like too.
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=9254
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Gloria
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Hi, Jim, Thanks for the info and links!
I've peeked at the previews of the Shooter comeback and look very nice... I think i might pick the trade when it comes!
Also, there's an ongoing saga by Geoff Johns in Action Comics that also looks interesting... and It's got the "classic" legion it seems! (which I love!)
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