tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post8643785376579820364..comments2024-03-28T17:36:06.132-04:00Comments on The Legion of Super Bloggers! : Final Crisis Legion of Three Worlds #1MetropolisKid41http://www.blogger.com/profile/12121196519360092429noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-70447916273385482922019-01-19T10:42:34.360-05:002019-01-19T10:42:34.360-05:00Since some of these comments are about Johns and c...Since some of these comments are about Johns and continuity I guess I'll give my 2 center. Johns, in his first 10 years at DC, became their fixer. When came on a co-writer of JLA, he brought back Hawkman who was so saddle bagged by continuity, even after Zero Hour and shoved off to Limbo. In the JSA, he continued and righted one of the greatest wrongs in comics (IMO), the death of Dove by revealing she was not killed by Monarch. This is a continuity change. He was also trying to restore something similar to the Ditko Hawk & Dove. Eventually, he was able to correct the other half of that wrong (Hawk as Monarch). <br /><br />But then he fixed another comic wrong (in some people's eyes) of Hal Jordan killing the GLC. In doing so, he obviously had to change that the Green Lanterns were not dead but why readers hadn't seen them for 10 years. When he took over GL, he introduced a whole new part of the DCU with the emotional spectrum, Black Hand, Nekron. He always acknowledged continuity and never crapped on it.<br /><br />And with the Superman & LSH story in Action comics, he sought out to right the wrong that the real Kal-El was never a member of the Legion because of COIE.<br /><br />In retrospect, Lo3W was not solely about the Legion as we later find out. But it's hard to ignore how much of Legion history is influenced by the modern day stories (Rond Vidar as GL, Tornado Twins). Johns sought to sort all that out, make all the Legions valid (which was actually suggested in a Reboot story that there were multiple Legion timelines)<br /><br />So yeah, maybe he didn't follow continuity to a tee. What writer can these days?! But at least Johns tried to do it for some good reasons.<br /><br />I mean, when Levitz took over the Retroboot, we never once heard more from Brainiac 6...marvelboy74https://www.blogger.com/profile/13962731689660859167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-11884075690422313602019-01-11T21:04:29.510-05:002019-01-11T21:04:29.510-05:00I didn't exactly dislike Lo3W, but part of me ...I didn't exactly dislike Lo3W, but part of me wishes it could've remained an unrecorded adventure from the past, as it was first referred to in Justice Society of America #6. It's such an amazingly good IDEA for a story that any execution was bound to fall short.Johnhttp://twitter.com/jheaton416/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-32086644453057775432019-01-11T18:24:44.788-05:002019-01-11T18:24:44.788-05:00Back when the story first came out, I spent a whil...Back when the story first came out, I spent a while annotating the story. With the help of my commenters, let's journey in the Time Bubble back to August 2008 if you want to know who's who, what's what, and where it all came from. http://adventure247.blogspot.com/2008/08/annotated-legion-of-three-worlds-1.htmlMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15001530336692435773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-62267005022996070842019-01-11T12:20:22.365-05:002019-01-11T12:20:22.365-05:00"Honestly, I am starting to think that Johns ..."Honestly, I am starting to think that Johns himself needs a little continuity lesson. Are we in the main Legion timeline or not?"<br /><br />Right. I seem to remember that John's deliberate intention was to go back to, not Pre-Crisis, but somewhere around the Magic Wars . Definitely right before the 5 year gap. But then add a bit of Pre-Crisis (Superboy/man, Takron-Galtos, etc) + a bit of Johns' spin on stuff. The result is kind of like 90% of the Levitz-era.<br /><br />Hal Shipmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08066628843197388507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-33975611022941009912019-01-11T07:31:38.036-05:002019-01-11T07:31:38.036-05:00"Prime does what he does best. He throws a ta..."Prime does what he does best. He throws a tantrum."<br /><br />A succint but accurate summary of anything involving Superboy-Prime.<br /><br />Well, anything Post-Crisis. Let's be fair here.<br /><br />"Honestly, I am starting to think that Johns himself needs a little continuity lesson. Are we in the main Legion timeline or not?"<br /><br />My guess is Johns wanted to bring the Pre-Crisis Legion back but he didn't want to get himself mired into details. He needed/wanted some stuff restored, so he used it, and out-of-continuity details can be written off as anomalies caused by the Crisis. Sort of like Sterling Gates coming up with a way to retcon Post-Crisis Kara's brattiness out which didn't quite cover everything but worked.<br /><br />"Sigh .... Laurel Gand ..."<br /><br />Maybe I'm imagining things, but are Supergirl and Andromeda's positions mirroring each other? Kara arms akimbo next to Nura in the top right, Laurel arms akimbo next to Nura in the bottom left...<br /><br />Anyway, I like this story, even if I'm not a Legion expert. And I find funny that appealing Brainy's ego is everything you need to do to get results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com