I think the face on Ultra Boy reminds me a bit of Chaykin with the big square jaw.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/1/11307/308927-182584-reuben-flagg.jpg
Ultra Boy face is v Chaykin, good call
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
FYI, assuming the industry doesn't completely collapse before then, there's a Five Years Later omnibus coming out in a few months.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Wow, they're finally collecting it? It took so long, I thought it would never happen (I mean, why now?)
― morrisp, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Dunno, their LOSH collections have been frustratingly all over the place (the five b&w Showcase volumes almost but don't quite abut the two recent Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes HCs, then a couple years of uncollected material followed by four now-OOP early-'80s trades, etc.).
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
I just want the entire Levitz-Giffen run
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
^me too. I have these four:https://i.imgur.com/Ly7N9mm_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― morrisp, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
I also have a few random early-‘80s issues. But most of my single issues are 5YL era, and then a little ways past that (until I gave up).
― morrisp, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
I’ve never read any Legion tbh. I tried with 5YL a few times but realised it wasn’t going to make sense/mean anything without reading some of the early stuff. Is Darkness Saga a good place to start? (I don’t have patience for the silver age stuff.) I have a version that starts with issue 284
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 9 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
(The one in the photo above actually)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 9 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
Great Darkness is pretty complex (each issue is dense AF, with multiple interwoven plotlines etc.), but is indeed peak Levitz/Giffen.
― morrisp, Thursday, 9 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
Other than a couple issues, most of those 80s Legion is pretty cheap in back issues.
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
imo Five Years Later is a better place to start than Great Darkness Saga - the latter assumes more knowledge of DC and LSH history and characters - but you're definitely better off starting from #284 than the original GDS collection that kicks in at #290 or so
― donald failson (sic), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
I disagree with the idea that 5YL is a good entry point into the Legion (and having recently revisited it, I don’t think it’s aged very well); but any entry is better than none, I suppose.
― morrisp, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
Being the stupid completist that I am, I still haven't made my way through the Showcase phone books yet. I'm guessing the actual literal entry point, while possessing a certain mid-century charm, isn't the ideal entry point.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
^^I picked up a copy of the first Showcase volume at a sidewalk sale (my first impromptu/cash purchase in many a pandemic moon). These early Superboy & Supergirl stories, by Otto Binder or Jerry Siegel, are – excuse me – the dumbest fucking stories I’ve ever read.
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Monday, 15 June 2020 06:02 (four years ago) link
Looking at some old Legion comics today, I found this cover.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/6/64/Superboy_and_the_Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Vol_1_222.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090102193121
― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
haaaaaa.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know more about this Australian publisher that reprinted DC (and other) content, but apparently couldn’t use the titles? (Seems like it may be up sic’s alley.)http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-legion-in-australia.html
― we don't have to be around all these coffee shops (morrisp), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
was hoping to see MURRAY THE CAT when clicking through but idk anything about their strategies
my guess would be that they generally kept changing titles in order to keep newsagents interested, and in the case of Super-Heroes Album that they thought "Legion" was too fancy a name for sun-addled shirtless sprogs in the seventies to find appealing
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
These early Superboy & Supergirl stories, by Otto Binder or Jerry Siegel, are – excuse me – the dumbest fucking stories I’ve ever read.I’m now reading this volume with my kid, and it’s kind of fun… turns out he has the ability to recognize & laugh at the absurdity of these old strips (I’ve never seen him enjoy something “ironically” before). I’m also getting kind of a nerdy thrill at introducing him to the LSH.
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 14 August 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Qt7FUx5_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=mediumSuperboy still not giving Lana a tumble
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 14 August 2021 06:05 (two years ago) link
:D
never seen him enjoy something “ironically” before). I’m also getting kind of a nerdy thrill
:D :D
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 14 August 2021 06:55 (two years ago) link
Reading these Legion first appearances, you wouldn’t know it was the beginning of a beloved, decades-long storyline. Interesting that the only Legionnaire whose real name & backstory have been revealed so far is Thom Kallor (Star Boy) – even the main three are just stock characters in these early issues. (Though when Supergirl first encounters them, they tell her they’re the “children” of the Legionnaires that Superboy met… I assume this was never mentioned again.)
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
By the way – my understanding is that the BendisBoot is dunzo? R.I.P. to the Legion once again.
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Sunday, 15 August 2021 06:00 (two years ago) link
Still making our way thru the early Superboy/Supergirl stories in this Showcase volume… the plotting and dialogue are just so bad (good art, tho). And Otto Binder wrote some of those great sci-fi stories in the ‘50s… IDGI.The Legionnaires are also such scrubs here. Like real screw-ups. If it weren’t for Pocket Universe Superboy, they’d be up the creek.
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Thursday, 19 August 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
Apparently Bendis says they’re coming back, whoopee
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 1 October 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link
Keith Giffen R.I.P.
His final Facebook post:
https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:auto/h:auto/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_4104.jpeg
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 12 October 2023 00:55 (eight months ago) link
... wow
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 October 2023 01:04 (eight months ago) link
Levitz tribute:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lmieio72lgit7a5ts43iiyks/bafkreiez22fkucpu56ttzqavdv3gwszhbbhknoximr2wyephyngcvpnoxu@jpeg
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 12 October 2023 01:50 (eight months ago) link
That’s so lovely and bittersweet. Lol at “many thankfully never saw print”
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:04 (eight months ago) link
Rest In Peace.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:51 (eight months ago) link
Aw, damn.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 12 October 2023 15:45 (eight months ago) link