tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post5521985687442816003..comments2024-03-28T17:36:06.132-04:00Comments on The Legion of Super Bloggers! : Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #2MetropolisKid41http://www.blogger.com/profile/12121196519360092429noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-22852178307918954922021-03-04T10:01:32.157-05:002021-03-04T10:01:32.157-05:00Nowadays it wouldnt be that hard. He could've ...Nowadays it wouldnt be that hard. He could've look it up online in a wiki or a blog like this and use that info without much effort. But i could believe that he actually read those comics in some point and he used in his story the bits and pieces that stayed with him. After all, if he can remenber the stuff he himself writes just about enough to keep the script consistent (if not coherent) its not that unbelievable that he remenbered just enough of the previous Legions to reference them a little without actually understanding them.Pedro Vallefinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17995843548781913032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-79494758698763785992021-03-03T17:53:49.899-05:002021-03-03T17:53:49.899-05:00Honestly, I started to think than any similitude f...Honestly, I started to think than any similitude from Bendis Legion with bits of threeboot and 5YL must be coincidence, because the fact than he take inspiration of those ideas it would mean than he investigated those eras. And investigate past eras is something than Bendis don't do. Maybe he had some superficial knowlegde, but nothing more. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584682070701864642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-67099722115725433762021-03-03T16:26:44.690-05:002021-03-03T16:26:44.690-05:00Bendis hardly cares about continuity on his books ...Bendis hardly cares about continuity on his books even from one issue to the next (Braniac was brainiac 7 in LoS.FS 1, but in issue 2, he was Brainiac 5 again.). He likes them to have an emotional impact, but lacks coherence, than it was the only thing keeping the Legion together from one reboot to another. With all the changes he put, the characters lost coherence. Even in 5YL, if the characters were radically changed, they keep a coherence than made them recognizable. But not with Bendis. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584682070701864642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-87859340468421770282021-03-03T16:18:05.286-05:002021-03-03T16:18:05.286-05:00Maybe an subtle message about what was the destiny...Maybe an subtle message about what was the destiny of this volume? IF is so, this was the shortest reboot ever. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584682070701864642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-83646165043018135772021-03-03T16:15:35.261-05:002021-03-03T16:15:35.261-05:00More like from Phantom girl, who also can teleport...More like from Phantom girl, who also can teleport.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584682070701864642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-61863108813786959872021-03-03T11:25:31.331-05:002021-03-03T11:25:31.331-05:00Russell, you are correct. In issue 8, Jan says his...Russell, you are correct. In issue 8, Jan says his people were destroyed by the Horraz.marvelboy74https://www.blogger.com/profile/13962731689660859167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-42632983139413305712021-03-03T08:08:01.250-05:002021-03-03T08:08:01.250-05:00I feel like not even Bendis cares at this point.I feel like not even Bendis cares at this point.Pedro Vallefinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17995843548781913032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-12865953864645190402021-03-03T08:00:47.885-05:002021-03-03T08:00:47.885-05:00What would be the theme there? Complicated parent-...What would be the theme there? Complicated parent-child relationships? Rebel against authourity? Daddy issues?<br />Either way, rogal zaar being there is a bit of a stretch. It was never clarified who was he a clone from. Realistically, he's more a clone of Doomsday that of anyone else. In his place i'd put R.J. Brande. Chamaleon Boy's mother and leader of hordes of nameless science police officers.<br />She might be a terrible modernization of a key character, but she makes a decent, ambiguous antagonist. And a ever present one at that. More that what can be said of the other "villains".<br />You do point out a consistent trait of Bendis's Legion: taking bits and pieces of others incarnations and make them worse. Particulary from the more conflinting ones: FYL and the threeboot. Its somewhat more obvious with the later. What with the unruly mess the team is, the antagonistic parents in positions of power, the characterizations that either reject what came before or are simplified to the Nth degre, etc. The biggest diference is that those two managed to last long enough to compare (often favourily) the first run of the vol with the last. Bendis can only be compared to Bendis.Pedro Vallefinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17995843548781913032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-37041732086783699842021-03-03T07:29:05.715-05:002021-03-03T07:29:05.715-05:00I *did* think that Element Lad had been the sole s...I *did* think that Element Lad had been the sole survivor in this continuity, too, but figured I had either mis-remembered or been mistaken. At this point I just didn't care. If Element Lad's people are all still alive, why is he a Legionnaire? You lose his most basic motivation. It's all shite. Russell Burbagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756652514507714383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-28167962991289799152021-03-03T06:16:03.891-05:002021-03-03T06:16:03.891-05:00Am i the only who noticed that they said that elem...Am i the only who noticed that they said that element lad people were brainwashed into destroying the UP in this when it was previously stated (around the trial arc or so) that the horraz wiped out his race and element lad was the only survivor? Makes me wonder if by some point Bendis started puting inconsistences there on purpose. They were there from the first issue onwards and became more and more unsubtle so maybe he embraced in some point? Then again, the inconsistence of the first issue was the worst of them all so i guess this is him going full circle.Pedro Vallefinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17995843548781913032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-22989295693747575382021-03-02T05:56:43.649-05:002021-03-02T05:56:43.649-05:00Addendum: Has any one else noticed something about...Addendum: Has any one else noticed something about the villains of this series?<br /><br />The nameless hordes of Horraz & Mordru, the White Witch's father.<br />The nameless hordes of Rimbor & Crav Nah, Ultra Boy's father.<br />Rogal Zaa, Superboy's clone/uncle/something.<br />And now the nameless people of Titan addressed as Saturn Girl's mother.<br /><br />I don't know if this is meant to be a theme or just sheer writerly laziness but whichever it's already tedious.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-17301633811693790132021-03-02T05:28:44.363-05:002021-03-02T05:28:44.363-05:00This issue's art looks like the crap that floo...This issue's art looks like the crap that flooded Tumblr back when it was relevant. The story is still Bendis doing his usual "I'll focus on the parts that don't matter and barely focus on the parts that do" style of storytelling. At least BMB managed to tell a (barely) complete story within two issues, which he failed at spectacularly with "LOSH: Millenium" 1 & 2Ray Martinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09092999455029142915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-24703940656187986042021-03-02T02:57:20.574-05:002021-03-02T02:57:20.574-05:00'Is it just me'
No, it's not. Paper do...'Is it just me'<br />No, it's not. Paper dolls is spot on as this and the previous 12 issues feel nothing more than the artist has shown a sketchbook & Bendis has run some liner notes under some of them. We know almost nothing about most of the characters so everything is tell not show. The only way to care is recalling previous incarnations and the book has loudly & repeatedly told us 'this ain't them'.<br /><br />The only other metric to judge it on is the plotting and frankly I liked this story better when Tom Peyer wrote it as DC 1 Million.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-84845720226986384152021-03-01T23:59:26.805-05:002021-03-01T23:59:26.805-05:00I haven't read this but Russ and his paper dol...I haven't read this but Russ and his paper doll analogy are perfect.marvelboy74https://www.blogger.com/profile/13962731689660859167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-48164585763705194052021-03-01T19:09:50.086-05:002021-03-01T19:09:50.086-05:00She took lessons from Gates.She took lessons from Gates.emsley wyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905667921221387365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-43024910222889936742021-03-01T15:59:04.529-05:002021-03-01T15:59:04.529-05:00This version also popped up in Immortal Wonder Wom...This version also popped up in Immortal Wonder Woman where they all died. Good riddance I say.DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03698136441392899282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-11024891182664103162021-03-01T07:19:53.379-05:002021-03-01T07:19:53.379-05:00I hated the art this issue, especially what they w...I hated the art this issue, especially what they were doing with Bouncing Boy. It was not a great issue to say the least, but somehow better than most of the Future State stories. I really wanted to like this new Legion. I was uncertain about some of the changes but I was willing to give it a shot. Instead, I would up confused-- After a year I still don't know the characters or what they can do. (Shadow Lass creates teleport portals? I didn't know she could do that).tomghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217504578676460449noreply@blogger.com