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Post by dans on Jul 19, 2023 23:40:41 GMT
I liked the '5 year after' Legion even if the continuity was dark. I didn't like the art, though. But it told what I thought of was a realistic, interesting story, making good use of the characters. However, it seems to me that it was not really fully thought out, and the story kept getting deeper and more complex and find a resolution was getting harder and harder, and rather than saving the story, they (literally) blew it up.
And that is about when I stopped reading comics...
Funny anecdote about that series - I was missing a single issue, and many years later, discovered copies of that issue on sale at a K-Mart, of all places. I took it home and read it - and discovered that I was mentioned in the letters column!!!!
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 20, 2023 3:39:15 GMT
By then I'd started reading Alan Moore's Watchmen and discovered V For Vendetta shortly afterward. Initially, I was relieved to see the Crisis on Infinite Earths wasn't going to completely trash the LSH continuity and although the tone of the five years later continuity was grimmer and grittier, I liked that sort of thing back then. Paul Levitz was a damned good writer and it seemed as if DC was respecting LSH fandom through minimal disruption. It was still continuity, it was the Legion growing and maturing and even if this version of the thirtieth century was darker than I remembered it pre-Crisis, the plot explained it and the characterisation was excellent. Added to which, one of my favourite Legionnaires, Mon-El, didn't die in this continuity. Although I quite liked the vengeance against the Time Trapper story arc after Superboy's death, precisely because it was a tribute to that character and its significance. Even after the Glorithverse reset, I didn't mind that, given it pivoted on Mon-El/Valor.
And then came Zero Hour and I stopped reading DC and my traditional comics fare out of sheer anger.
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