Comments on: KC Column: LLL!

By: rdb

rdb — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:17:12 +0000

Great post! I really identify with your reasons for loving the Legion at an early age. I too was an only child, and an outsider child of northerners living in the South. The Legionnaires were my friends and role models. I agree with you that the appeal of the Legion taps into young boys’ propensity for recording and organizing trivial information. Paul Levitz has commented on that, too, and how things like Pokemon, which have the same appeal, have supplanted our beloved Legion.

By: Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:25:35 +0000

I learn something every time I read a KC post. Thanks, sir.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:18:13 +0000

“Also I was reading the V4 issues recently, and in the letter column there were talks of a LSH series that would have been stories set in the new characters and time line. That could have been interesting, but I wonder how close it got to being a reality.”

That should have been a series set in the past exploring the new characters (Laurel Gand, Kent Shakespeare, etc.) and the new time line where Valor was the inspiration for the team instead of Superboy.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:15:45 +0000

Weird that you expressed such acclaim for the L3W miniseries. I had such high hopes for it, after enjoying Johns Superman & the LSH storyline, but it turned out to revolve around the biggest element that I always had a problem with. When the LSH stories revolve around our era, and the current status quo of other books.

I always wondered when the Legion went from club for friends with powers to sort of a United Nations like peace keeping force.

Also I was reading the V4 issues recently, and in the letter column there were talks of a LSH series that would have been stories set in the new characters and time line. That could have been interesting, but I wonder how close it got to being a reality.

Was the character Kent Shakespeare ever supposed to have a back story? I liked him, but it seemed like we never got much beyond “hes a playful nod at a Superman like character.”

How do you pronounce Tinya? Tin-yah Teen-yah Teen-yuh?

I miss Jeff Moy, Tom Mccraw, Lee Moder and co. They were always very talented, but also very good people as well from the time spent in the old AOL Legion chats. What are they up to these days? (saw Moder was drawing Dragon Prince CO project with Ron Marz)

Curious to see how Levitz does, and would love to hear how he’s just approaching things these days. Comics have changed so much since he was last a regular writer, heck how often has the LSH themselves changed?

I’d be curious to know what he’s doing to deliver the kind of stories people are hoping he’ll bring back with him. Yet keep things.. modern.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:46:12 +0000

Thanks for shedding some light on the appeal of the Legion.

Since I have never seen the appeal of the X-Men, I don’t feel too badly about not “getting” the Legion.

Still, it is always interesting to read about someone else’s passions.

By: KC Likes the Legion » Comics Worth Reading

KC Likes the Legion » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:48:15 +0000

[...] his latest column at the Westfield blog, KC discusses the big comics news of last week, including Paul Levitz’s departure from DC [...]