A Retrospective on the Post Zero Hour Legion: a really, really long look at the Archie Legion and the Independence Day Legion
For those of you who are new, or newish, to my columns, I'm going to give you fair warning for what's about to come. Now that we've finished with the Post Zero Hour (PZH) Legion, the Reboot Legion, or the Archie Legion and what I'm calling the Independence Day Legion (IDL), I wanted to go back and write about this entire "boot" of the Legion. Inspired by the classic movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", I'm going to separate the following into three sections. Just for reference so things make sense: The Archie Legion is the brightly-colored reboot that came directly out of the horrors of the 5YL Legion. It's populated by fresh-faced and young teenagers who look like they just stepped out of an Archie comic (hence the name). It ran from Legion of Super-Heroes and Legionnaires #0 (Oct. 1994) to Legionnaires #77 and Legion #121 (Nov. 1999) The Independence Day Legion (IDL) is, basically, the Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA)-written Legion (...