Argh new Shooter-Legion catch-up.

[evilbeej]

Okay, so, since 1999, every time I check the 'canonical'/'mainstream' Legion book out, whatever it's going by, it's WORSE EVERY TIME.

It went a little like this.

1) I thought I picked up Legion, but WHOOPS, it was a ZOMBIE COMIC.
2) Okay, this looks like it might be okay, it-- WOAH WAIT WHAT? You... Zoe is a THINGY and Jeka is a NAGA? And... yo, /lame/, Ra's is a BATMAN villain, you have your OWN epic villains, you could at LEAST have used an ACTUAL immortal and not a cheater. But whatever. Okay. OH SHIT WHAT? Universo is-- no, okay, I disow-- aw shit, you went there. You just pissed on your own continuity with this Superboy/Church of S shit. FOAD. Oh and by the way your art may be critically acclaimed but all your faces look the same. Stupid /stupids/. And your characterization is for shit. You are not Warren Ellis writing the Authority as a crackheaded summer action flick *statement* on the *taste* of COMICS READERS. You're SUPPOSED to be writing the goddamn LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES. Not fucking Warhammer 40K novels. ARGH ARGH ARGH moving on.
3) O hai, Gail Simone! You don't suck! I hold out hope for this serie-- oh. You're writing a series cap. Cancellation. Right. Okay. I...
4) ... what?
5) Uh. Okay...
6) When did we become the X-Men? Isn't this 'feared and hated by those who we're sworn to protect' thing a little old?

WTF guys.

Since 1999. That's nine years of this. Nine years of constantly changing your bloody minds. Nine years of 'but the kids love that dark shit, right?' Nine years of 'grit and angst sell'. I thought that went out in the mid-90s. I thought that went out with Liefeld. I thought that went out with extraneous straps and belts and shoulderpads.

Then again, I also thought that since the Legion-as-gritty-future had been done *well* once and rebooted, you guys wouldn't try doing the Legion-as-gritty-future *badly*. Fuck you and fuck your weaselly message-board toadies who think Mark Millar is a genius instead of a goddamn hack.

I THOUGHT THAT COMICS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE FUN.

This shit just makes me tired.

PS I hate everything.

PPS I hate the fact that I finally understand the POV that hated *my* Legion. But I don't think I can forgive the ones that still hate mine but like the new one.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I R SERIOUS COMIC EDITOR. THIS R SERIOUS COMIC.

[evilbeej]

comix iz srs bzniss >:|

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Non-Sequiter: It vexes me that the name of the hack is one letter off of mine. >_<

One.
Freakin'.
Letter.

Also...Shooter...as in 'Jim Shooter'? He's doing Legion?

[bentarc.livejournal.com]

Yes. The scuttlebutt is that there's going to be a Megaboot going into the upcoming Final Crisis.

[bentarc.livejournal.com]

To coincide with the Legion's 50th anniversary.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Fear and Loathing. >_<;;;;

[evilbeej]

GOOD PHRASE! GOOD PHRASE!

[thandrak.livejournal.com]

As in "Little Jimmy Shooter", indeed. Bit of a gap between his first work and his most recent. Actually, I kind of like the new stuff. It's just not really connected to the Waid stuff.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

By the way, Waid's Legion was more about generation gap conflict, but the resolution of his arc left the Establishment with plenty of good reasons to "hate and fear" the Legion. In the same sense that the Establishment was wary of the Justice League in JLU after finding out that the Watchtower doubled as an orbital death ray. Sure, they used it for good...but it was now impossible to ignore the threat potential.

[evilbeej]

I know. But it started out with fear and loathing, and it's still fear and loathing, and therefore it sucked, and it still sucks.

The Legion's not goddamn well supposed to be a generation gap conflict story, for fucksake.

Wwwaaaait. Are you trolling to see how much you can make me cuss?

[onlyarmand.livejournal.com]

You got to be sprockin' kidding me. A fourth boot? My Thom, if we have anymore boots, won't it fracture the space/time continuum?

[seth-gaterra.livejournal.com]

I pretty much gave up on the Legion comics just before Legion Lost. Tried the latest series for a few issues, and gave up in disgust. Seriously, if the average people are supposed to be so damn scared of independent thought and emotional interactions, and the governments are doing their level best to *wipe out* these concepts... how can there even be a United Planets?!

And yes, the whole X-books angst thing about "the world hates us, but we must save the world, and not actually *bother* to tell the world we're doing this so they might finally see someone *besides* the evil mutants"? Bleh... how did they survive this long?

That's why I game and come up with my own versions... a lot more satisfying, and if the storyline gets screwed up then I didn't pay a ton of money to find out it was lousy. :)

Nice quote

[(Anonymous)]

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got
it made.
-- Jean Giraudoux


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