Monday, July 04, 2011

Week of 29 June 2011

I did not see any LSh content in DC Comics this week.

I did get my copy of the hardcover collection of Legion Lost. I re-read the series, and while I can see many reasons that people liked it, it really wasn't my cup of tea. I guess I just prefer my Legion a bit less dark and miserable.

Ah, well. It's still good to see the Legion popular enough for DC to feel they can make money off a hardcover like this.

Makes me think of some other series I'd like to see in hardcover or trade paperback. Just off the top of my head:


  • The death of Superboy
  • The Universo Project (maybe combined with "The Condemned Legion" from Adventure)
  • The Conspiracy storyline
  • The Emerald Empress series from late in the Levitz/Giffen run
  • Secrets of the LSH and Who's Who in the LSH in one volume
  • Earthwar
  • A Legion Weddings collection, including "The Weddings that Wrecked the Legion," Chuck & Luornu's wedding, Garth & Imra's wedding, Ultra Boy & Apparition getting hitched in the Earth-247 Legion, and probably one or two others I've forgotten
  • End of an Era
  • The whole 20th Century Exile storyline from Earth-247
  • A collection of Brainiac 5 Goes Crazy stories
  • Legionnaires 3 and Cosmic Boy
  • A collection of Legion of Substitute Heroes stories
  • Wanderers
  • Valor
  • Legion Worlds

Okay, DC, that should keep you busy for a while. Release these over the next couple of years, and you can charge me $20-$30 apiece. I'm stupid, I'll pay.

What about the rest of you? What Legion series would you like to see released in bound form?

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7 comments:

Shadow Kid said...

There's really only one essential missing:
Shadow Lass: The Complete Appearances

P.S. Don't forget to include the most moving Legion wedding to date—Shady's Talokian bonding ceremony to the critically wounded Mon-El. (Um, did you completely forget that one, Mr. Levitz?).

Blue Tyson said...

The Mike Grell Legion

Rob said...

Looks like this could be an interesting trade collection - it starts in October:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a330252/legion-secret-origin-hires-paul-levitz-as-writer.html

Rob said...

And this is really bad news for some Legionnaires - two to die, or so it says in the October solicits! (see towards the bottom of the new issues for October)

http://www.majorspoilers.com/solicitations-dc-unveils-more-october-titles-and-two-new-number-ones

Brainy Pirate said...

DiDio just announced on Facebook that the timestream is closed post-Flashpoint. Is this partly why the lost Legionnaires can't return? And does this mean the Legion never met any of the Supers?

Madman2001 said...

Hey, Get-a-Life Boy! Are you alright? We miss you.

Rob said...

Brainy Pirate - I read somewhere that Superman did meet the Legion when he was younger. Apparently there's a panel in DCnU Action issue 1 that refers to the Legion in some way. So I guess we can breathe a sigh of relief that Legion continuity isn't going to be re-re-re-re-booted yet again.

And I'm sure the lost Legionnaires would be able to return if the comic folds!