Submitted by donsakers on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 00:00
(This was originally published on December 24, 2010)
I just realized that the current (Retro) Legion is something that we've seldom seen in science fiction. Bear with me, and we'll get to it in a moment.
In SF we're used to the idea of divergent timelines: two or more universes that share the same past, but have different futures. To borrow Doc Brown's graph from the Back to the Future movies, divergent timelines look like this:
Submitted by donsakers on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 00:00
(This was originally published Sept 15, 2009) (Spoiler: It wasn't the last time....)
Submitted by donsakers on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 00:00
(This was originally publshed on Septermber 14, 2009)
Has anyone noticed how the Legionnaires are getting subtly younger since "Superman & the LSH" and L3W? In Superman etc, they looked to be contemporaries of Superman's, say early 30s. Now they look early-to-mid 20s.
Submitted by donsakers on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 00:00
(This was originally published on April 30, 2009)
I'll have a fuller report on this week's comics, including L3W #4, soon. But first, I have some reflections on what Geoff Johns is doing in L3W. Specifically, I believe that Johns is codifying a unified meta-history of the DC Multiverse(s), and putting the Legion squarely in the center of that history.
Earth-Prime is a Special Place
Submitted by donsakers on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 00:00
Legion continuity has always been a double-edged sword. The complexity of the Legion's vast cast of characters and detailed history is often cited as a barrier to new readers. Who wants to pick up a Legion comic, knowing that just to understand what's going on, you'll have to learn dozens of characters and huge amounts of backstory?
