tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post7578754412977638796..comments2024-03-27T22:03:05.230-04:00Comments on The Legion of Super Bloggers! : 5YL Legion of Super-Heroes #50MetropolisKid41http://www.blogger.com/profile/12121196519360092429noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-31782354065544225202022-09-19T10:01:41.736-04:002022-09-19T10:01:41.736-04:00Anj, as always, thanks so much for the reviews. It...Anj, as always, thanks so much for the reviews. It was the same for me. After Zero Hour, I started to see that the kind of real growth/character development/change that we saw in the early 5YL run is impossible to sustain in an industry that feels it must reinvent its entire continuity-universe periodically, in order to have the same characters continue on, basically forever. It started to seem like the symptoms of an industry floundering, making ill-advised decisions, as if one re-boot after another would solve their problems. I finally accepted that my interest in comics was mostly a reflection of my youth, and the older ones were what I really liked. The Legion's 5YL was the rare exception that successfully brought my childhood heroes into adulthood, and I will always be grateful for it. Ben Shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10676614027602324498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-81073775320379636272015-09-06T18:00:16.848-04:002015-09-06T18:00:16.848-04:00Thanks so much for the comment.
My time is growing...Thanks so much for the comment.<br />My time is growing short as the true 5YL era is nearing its end.<br /><br />Glad you have been around and hope to fill in this gap. After the ultimate ending of this reboot, I left the Legion for years. That's how much this ending got to me.Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-30448665905926866882015-09-04T07:55:24.890-04:002015-09-04T07:55:24.890-04:00This review is the first one on this site that for...This review is the first one on this site that for me is not nostalgia. It is the of a Legion story that I had not read.<br /><br />I was a long time Legion fan. After falling in love with the team in the late 70s or early 80s, I became a Legion completest. I had gone back and bought every issue I could find all the way back to Supergirl's first attempt to join the team. I was missing only a few issues of their Action Comics run after they were bumped from Adventure Comics..but really, who can blame me for not trying harder to track them down. That run was terrible! I still have all those issues I bought, and when I visit family in the US, I sometimes look through them with fond memories...<br /><br />BUT.. The last few issues of the 5YL Legion were really terrible. I hated the Mordru Zombie Arc. That arc, combined with a revelation in one of the annuals about Proty I, was the final straw. MY Legion was not coming back. I tried reading the other title featuring the Legion clones, but it was not the same and I didn't buy many issues. I remember feeling a very deep sense of loss knowing that I wouldn't be reading about my old 'friends' anymore. It was definitely a 'childhood's end' moment. <br /><br />I only picked up one issue after that-- the final issue of the run where they were wiped from existence. I then tried the first three or four issues of the Reboot Legion,, but that couldn't keep my interest. I guess thirty years later, DC restored the Legion's original continuity.. but it was much too late to get readers like me back.<br /><br />Anyway, I will be looking forward to these reviews more than ever. I really wonder what I missed out on by giving up on the book.tomghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217504578676460449noreply@blogger.com