Long Live the Legion

  The Legion #32 And we're back! I hope everyone had a great holiday, no matter which holiday you were celebrating, and we're ready for an amazing 2025. My boundless optimism in the face of everything going on in the world will annoy my friends and family, but I can live with that. It's the Legion way, right? My only New Years wish? That DC Comics gets a Legion title up and running in 2025. And if they get me to write it? That would just be gravy... Let's stop this review to go over a little inside knowledge about comic books. How do you know when a title is about to be cancelled? Here are some not-so-subtle clues: The cover artists get replaced by whomever is the cheapest and youngest talent the publisher can find The creative team leaves very, very quickly and never get to wrap up any of their subplots Tony Harris and Tom Feister are no where to be seen - instead, Eric Wight handles this cover. It's pretty... generic... and doesn't really grab the attention th...

  The Legion #30 First of all, last week's column has the largest readership since I moved over to Blogspot, so thanks to everyone for reading... it's always good to know that I'm not just screaming into a void, so to speak. Second of all, I just wanted to put this warning before we start. If you really liked the Foundations story and don't want my rant to ruin any of your memories of this being a good book, please stop reading now. You won't be happy. Trust me... just scroll down now... Still with me? Okay... We've reached the final chapter of the Foundations saga. Young Darkseid has killed old Darkseid on Apokolips and is about to kill the Legion. Time and space are being destroyed by a chronal shockwave caused by pulling young Darkseid out of his timeline (don't worry about what that means for any future stories, like that Darkseid can never time travel). But the villains have sucked an insane amount of Dark Matter out of the universe to build, with a Boo...

  The Legion #25 I know this is going to sound crazy, but one of the reasons why I'm really excited to get to this issue is that this is the first Legion comic in a while that I'm going to read on paper. Everything else has been digital and, although I know this makes me sound like an old man shouting at clouds, I just prefer reading comics the old-fashioned way. So I pull out my The Legion: Foundations trade paperback and I'm ready to go. I'm also just a little stunned that this is the only trade released for this run. Of course, I still need to go back to the digital copy to see the credits for this issue because, for some crazy reason, the trade doesn't want to let us know who drew what. Here's the breakdown: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA) writing. Chris Batista with Robin Riggs, Chip Wallace, and Doug Hazlewood handling the main story (and yes, I still believe that when you have this many inkers it's a bad sign). Eric Wight handling the young Clark Ke...