2024-04-21 15:56
Sorry for not posting more. I don't mean to not post stuff here. But it's just so easy.Anyway, I recently appeared on the Legion of Substitute Podcasters: Tomorrow's Heroes Today … Read More
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2023-07-20 18:47
I reviewed Neil Howe's new book, The Fourth Turning Is Here, which is about generational cycles, history, and the kind of nonsense we're all currently trying to survive here, on my oth… Read More
2023-04-30 17:35
In 2019-2020 I wrote a series of articles for the Time Travel Nexus website. I didn't stop so much as the website stopped updating; their newest article was posted in early 2021 and I haven'… Read More
2023-04-29 19:59
Toyman, aka Winn Schott, aka Winslow Schott Jr., aka Computer Lad, of 21st-century Earth. Created by a bunch of TV writers drawing upon various pre-existing Toyman characters created by lots… Read More
2023-04-08 21:19
Before I wrote Legion Abstract, I wrote a superhero novel in blog form. It was fun. Now I'm doing something similar, a fantasy novel in blog form, and I'm posting it on my other site… Read More
2023-02-23 00:50
Those of you who've been reading here for a while will know that occasionally I have the honour of guesting on the Legion of Substitute Podcasters podcast. And the weeks I don't guest… Read More
2023-02-13 01:50
What Happened That You Have to Know About:Supergirl, freshly arrived on Earth, is having trouble fitting in with the Justice League because she's not used to using superpowers and misses the… Read More
2022-12-11 00:06
I've pointed out before how, for a while, the Legion of Super-Heroes was the franchise that DC Comics used for a lot of their experiments with long-form storytelling. The story of Lightning… Read More
2022-11-25 02:35
I try to keep a master list of Legionnaires on this site. It's surprisingly difficult to decide just what kind of list it should be, but, anyway, here's this one. Please let me know if there… Read More
2022-11-05 21:39
Not going anyplace! Social media never should have moved away from blogs and RSS.Twitters may come and go, but long-windedness is forever Read More
2022-09-29 02:48
What Happened That You Have to Know About:We open on Vandal Savage as the sheriff in an Old West town. Everyone's scared of him. He's got Batman locked up in the hoosegow; apparently he's ke… Read More
2022-08-24 23:35
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Justice League and the Legion of Super-Heroes put their heads together and things get a little tense while discussing Gold Lantern. The da… Read More
2022-07-21 01:20
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The big dark rift in the sky continues to get worse as the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice League all try to figure out where and when… Read More
2022-07-17 21:55
Writer Jared Yates Sexton, whom I like, had a Substack post, and accompanying Twitter thread, a while ago about how today's political struggles aren't just about the present but also a… Read More
2022-05-12 00:54
What Happened That You Have to Know About:While the rift is threatening the 21st and 31st centuries, Batman remembers that a Justice League villain named Epoch warned the League about Gold L… Read More
2022-03-13 23:49
What Happened That You Have to Know About:Everyone who disappeared last issue just went to the 31st century. We get some of Gold Lantern's backstory and some interacting between the Legion o… Read More
2022-01-17 01:42
What Happened That You Have to Know About: The Legion fights a space monster, successfully, and then a weird darkness thing happens which causes one of Triplicate Girl's selves to disap… Read More
2021-12-22 21:10
It is the Christmas season, for those who observe, which signals the end of the year as measured by the Gregorian calendar, and as such it is time for us to take stock of our time whic… Read More
2021-05-09 16:42
A quick thought about the "current" Legion of Super-Heroes comic book.There are things to like about it (the design, the energy, the faithfulness to the core ideas of the Legion) and t… Read More
2021-02-24 03:13
I'm going to put a sentence here just because I want to try something.What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion confronts Element Lad and Saturn Girl discovers that he and the Tro… Read More
2021-01-04 00:10
I used to have Legion-of-Super-Heroes-related links on the sidebar here. Maybe I'll put 'em back someday.If I do, I'll include Legion of Super-Heroes: The Complete Guides, which has the miss… Read More
2020-11-29 00:48
What Happened That You Have to Know About: The Legionnaires on their various missions all are dealing with some kind of escalation: the group on Krypton get taken out by some kind of blind d… Read More
2020-10-29 00:52
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion splits up to achieve several purposes: Superboy and Saturn Girl go to Gotham for a date and get involved with the hunt for Mordru… Read More
2020-10-21 23:57
I appeared on the Legion of Substitute Podcasters podcast this week, talking about LSH v4 #37; that's the Star Boy/baseball issue that I previously discussed here. I man… Read More
2020-10-01 00:17
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion's trial continues. There's some back-and-forth about whether the Legion is actually loyal to the United Planets or not, but this ge… Read More
2020-09-14 23:36
In case it's of interest to anyone, I guested with The Legion of Substitute Podcasters this week, discussing Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #35, an issue near and dear to my heart. (Earlier this… Read More
2020-09-06 15:49
So I made a big show about how I was going to write an article that blew the lid off of ambiguous character points in the fourboot Legion, and a couple of people have said, ooo, can't… Read More
2020-08-27 23:47
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legionnaires fight the Rimborians, and win, but the United Planets puts political pressure on them to stand trial anyway. Review: I can't… Read More
2020-07-29 00:45
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The fraught relationships between the Legion, the United Planets, and Rimbor continue to be fraught. This time it ends with Krav the General Nah arr… Read More
2020-06-13 19:07
I've probably told this story before, but starting in the early '90s I quit comics for a while, and only came back to them in about 2001, when I had a sudden hankering for Legion of Super-He… Read More
2020-06-11 03:28
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion evacuates Earth in preparation for the Horraz attack. Then the Horraz attack. There's a big fight, during which Aquaman's trident comes i… Read More
2020-03-26 02:07
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion talks their way out of their confrontation with the Science Police. Brainiac 5 picks up the trail of Aquaman's trident, and sends a team… Read More
2020-03-19 01:07
Here's what's going on. I ain't braving The 19 and leaving the house just to go buy comics, so that's one thing, and I'm trying for the first time to use Comixology, so's I can get this week… Read More
2020-02-20 03:43
What Happened That You Have to Know About:We get the first half of the Legion's origin, and it's actually a lot like the origin we've long been familiar with. The Science Police kindasorta p… Read More
2020-01-16 02:55
What Happened That You Have to Know About: Ultra Boy's dad, the leader of Rimbor, fights the Legion over the whole trident thing, and they bring him back to Legion HQ. Superboy brings Robin… Read More
2020-01-03 03:17
Typical question about superheroes. Who's the strongest, or, who's the most powerful, or, who would win in a fight. The correct answer, of course, is that it depends on who's writing the sto… Read More
2019-12-27 17:30
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion defends Aquaman's trident from the Horraz. The fight comes to an abrupt end when the trident's function as a portal to the elemental plan… Read More
2019-12-19 03:20
I just read LSHv8 #2, but I am not in a position to type up a review tonight. Soon as I can. Certainly this year. Happy holidays to all if I don't communicate with you otherwise before then! Read More
2019-11-07 03:05
Back to the old salt mine.What Happened That You Have to Know About:Some nasties called the Horraz are, for some reason, delivering Aquaman's legendary trident to Mordru, who is in this real… Read More
2019-11-06 23:09
I hope to have a review of Legion of Super-Heroes v8 #1 up later this evening, but in the meantime I'd like to draw your attention to something else.The intrepid correspondents at Time Trave… Read More
2019-10-03 03:16
Still not really a review. When we get to Legion of Super-Heroes v8 #1, that'll be a review.Can I start with the art? I was really impressed by the art in this comic book. Scott and Sook do… Read More
2019-09-07 00:53
I'm not going to format this like a review because it isn't exactly one. It talks about two comics, not one, and I'm not as concerned as usual with how good the comics are as comics.I'll sta… Read More
2019-06-14 01:41
As you all know and as fate would have it, we're going to be getting a new Legion of Super-Heroes comic this year. If you need to brush up on the details, this link is where you want to go… Read More
2019-02-23 19:36
Chameleon Girl, aka Yera Allon of Durla. Created by Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen.Yera--I'm going to call her Yera--spent most of her history not as a Legionnaire but as a supporting characte… Read More
2018-09-18 00:45
Dream Boy, aka Rol Purtha of Naltor, created by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson.Dream Boy was one of the few Legionnaires introduced in the threeboot era. He was a Naltorean precognitive who join… Read More
2018-09-09 16:10
Blok of Dryad. Created by Gerry Conway and Joe Staton.Here's Blok, who was one of my favourites. Still is, I guess.Blok's a rock creature from a destroyed planet. His powers are, obviously… Read More
2018-04-01 15:53
Some thoughts on the animated Legion.You may recall that the final issue of Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century featured the revelation that the whole animated continuity didn't actua… Read More
2018-01-18 01:31
The first thing is this: the title of the show is Supergirl, and, properly, that's who this episode was about. It's not a Legion show; it's a Supergirl show.(Is it any good? Enh; it's fine… Read More
2017-12-30 23:09
Hail to you, ye lads and lasses, and the best wishes of the holiday season all around.What Happened That You Have to Know AboutThe Legion is haunted by the ghost of Ferro Lad, so they recrui… Read More
2017-07-21 02:30
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The Legion of Super-Heroes team up with Batman and Robin to fight Universo and Egghead in the 1960s and the 2060s.Review:I know that this has been o… Read More
2017-06-17 22:23
What Happened That You Have to Know About:Nothing in the strictest sense; this story is way out of continuity. Basically, Supergirl is sick and the Legion of Super-Heroes tries to bring in S… Read More
2017-04-17 21:19
There's a pattern I noticed recently that I've never seen any comment on. This pattern is for Legion of Super-Heroes comics (and related materials) to increase in quality as time goes on.Let… Read More
2017-03-03 02:59
I've been kicking this blogpost around for years in my head. It's something I've always found interesting, but, well, I may be the only one. I'd start to write it up, and never quite finish… Read More
2017-02-18 23:42
It's been a while since I've posted. How are you?I've been keeping an eye on Legion-related developments, but, uh, I'm not really intrigued yet. Like, here's what we know so far about the po… Read More
2016-12-31 21:24
As we head into 2017, there's still no regular Legion of Super-Heroes comic being published. The 31st century has never seemed so far away.2016 was a tough year. It wasn't any kind of entity… Read More
2016-08-28 22:33
What Happened That You Have to Know About: I haven't been following along with this comic, so there's a lot I don't really know about. Sugar and Spike, now grown up to, I dunno, their early… Read More
2016-08-20 02:18
There's a parallel world out there I'm curious about.The Legion of Super-Heroes became famous, of course, during their long run in Adventure Comics in the 1960s. But this run ended with #380… Read More
2016-07-20 20:24
2016 seems like it's an ordeal. Sometimes it doesn't feel like we're going to make it to 2017, because who knows what might happen next? Any crazy terrible thing! Nothing is off the table.He… Read More
2016-06-19 21:53
I really don't know where the hell we are.1. Once upon a time there was the comics blogosphere. Lots of smart and funny people who created blogs to write about comics. It was really cool. No… Read More
2016-05-01 20:21
How have I not done Gates yet?Gates, aka Ti'julk M'rasz of Vyrga. Created by Tom McCraw, Lee Moder, and Mark Waid.Gates was one of several new Legion candidates introduced early in the reboo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
One of the articles I've had in mind for a long time is a look at "The Quiet Darkness", a story from LSHv4 #21-24 (in the Five Years Later era of the Legion). This is that article.The plot… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I'll put together some kind of full post in a little while, but in the meantime, you can head over to A Trout in the Milk where Plok interviews me on the subject of superhero fiction. You kn… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
2016-03-19 18:53
Word is that DC is moving its offices out of New York to join the rest of the Time-Warner entertainment types in Los Angeles.Many are lamenting this move as an end to the comic-book world th… Read More
2016-02-25 02:43
The consensus best Legion of Super-Heroes story is "The Great Darkness Saga" of the early 1980s, by Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen. There are many reasons why this is so, but at the moment I w… Read More
2016-02-08 02:45
Here's one who seemed to fall off the table.Dragonwing, aka Marya Pai of Earth. Created by Paul Levitz and Phil Jimenez.Dragonwing was one of the Academy graduates who joined the Legion as t… Read More
2016-01-03 03:13
Let's see if we can get back into the swing of these articles.Dream Girl, aka Nura Nal of Naltor, aka Dreamer, Nura Schnappin. Created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte.Dream Girl has the po… Read More
2015-11-23 01:43
According to the @thisdayincomics Twitter account, the Justice Society first appeared in comics seventy-five years ago today. So that's something: seventy-five years of superhero teams.I've… Read More
2015-09-20 00:28
When DC decides to use the Legion of Super-Heroes for something or other these days, they tend to default to the 1980s-era Legion as written by Paul Levitz in his second run on the title. Th… Read More
2015-06-10 01:03
It recently occurred to me to ask the question, "What is the Legion of Super-Heroes for?"As in, what purpose does the Legion serve from the perspective of DC Comics?Stipulated that this ques… Read More
2015-06-09 03:49
This review is so late! I know it is. I'll put together something about the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold miniseries too, I think, once I actually go to the comic shop and get the second issu… Read More
2015-04-24 02:24
What Happened That You Have to Know About:30th-century Metropolis is trapped in a dome and the Legionnaires who are there don't have any powers. They're trying to hold it together. Brainiac… Read More
2015-03-12 02:32
What Happened That You Have to Know About:Brainiac 5 comes up with a pretty good plan to save Thanagar; he rigs up a way to teleport it to Rann's orbit. That works, and the Legion goes home… Read More
2015-02-16 02:23
What Happened That You Have to Know About:The heroes fight back against Infinitus and his forces. Supergirl takes on Byth, who transforms into some kind of octopus tentacle creature. The Mar… Read More
2015-02-04 03:47
A Legion movie, maybe?I mean, they'd probably mess it up. But how much would that matter? Read More
2015-02-02 12:00
So as of today I've been doing this blog for ten years. That's pretty good, right? I think I'll keep doing it.Thanks to everyone who's taken the trouble to read anything I've written, and th… Read More
2015-01-15 03:11
What Happened That You Have to Know About:In the future, Infinitus's "infinity wraiths" attack Earth. The Legionnaires there evacuate everyone they can, but Dream Girl decides that it's hope… Read More
2015-01-11 04:44
I read tonight that comedian and actor Taylor Negron just died. He's been memorable in a lot of roles but the one I recall best, and the reason I'm posting this here, is his portrayal of Sta… Read More
2014-12-13 19:19
What Happened That You Have to Know About: There's more fighting. Byth is still trying to turn Ultra into Infinitus.Review: More of the same.Honestly, if collecting Legion comics and bloggin… Read More
2014-11-26 04:54
So as part of next spring's "Convergence" event, apparently DC is going to have a two-issue miniseries called Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, featuring what I've seen described as "… Read More
2014-11-18 03:12
This review is a few days later than I'd like it. Oh well.What Happened That You Have to Know About:The JLU and the Legion polish off the Cadre, but before they can take a victory lap, Black… Read More
2014-10-31 03:40
What Happened That You Have to Know About: A giant cosmic destroyer is threatening the existence of the future, so the Legion comes back to the present day in order to fight him through time… Read More
2014-10-20 02:48
I have a few things I want to touch on and I'm not sure how to work them all in so let me start this way. Gamergate.1. I'm not a gamer. I don't know much about video games. Or care. However… Read More
2014-09-11 21:59
In his blog, Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!, snell takes on the subject of the Legion's upcoming appearance in Justice League United. Go read it and come back here.He's right, of course.But… Read More
2014-08-19 00:53
We're tackling a big topic today.Colossal Boy, aka Gim Allon of Earth (Mars in the reboot era), aka Leviathan, Micro Lad. Created by Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney.Colossal Boy has been a… Read More
2014-08-17 15:40
I've got a post brewing on a very large topic of huge interest to Legion fans, but while I put that together, I'd like to direct your attention to a new(ish) site, The Legion of Super-Blogge… Read More
2014-07-22 02:31
So yeah.The Legion is set to return in this fall's Justice League United annual, which kicks off the six-issue Infinitus Saga (Jeff Lemire/Neil Edwards/Jay Leisten).My optimism about this… Read More
2014-06-02 02:44
It's time we got back to my personal favourite topic: Legion reboots. Try not to disturb the neighbours with your cheers.As always, I'm against reboots, but I'm often in favour of the comic… Read More
2014-05-28 02:03
Sorry I haven't posted anything in so long, but it's just been so easy not to. I have the best of intentions about it, honest. And the freaking comic book was around for over fifty years; it… Read More
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