#bendisboot

[orange-s-mario]

[sebeth]

Ready To Confront Her Estranged Biological Father

[dailydccomics]

the Legion of Super-Heroes by Ryan Sook

[judedeluca]

Why yes I'm still mad that what was proclaimed to be the most inclusive version of the Legion of Super-Heroes ended up being the most offensive version by far.

I mean it's kind of funny but not funny "ha ha."

[protytwo]

I wanted a new Legion series, and I got a new Legion series, and Heaven knows I'm miserable now.

[pashtunlantern]

as a POC i am fully entitled to complain about raceswapping painfully white characters to poc and somehow making their origins racist and ultimately ruining the original character and their story for us when there already are existing black and poc characters literally right there who have interesting lore but you just couldn't be bothered to build on that ?

Just further perpetuates the idea that poc characters cannot be interesting on their own and need to be a white person turned minority to make people like them (news flash: most of the times people don't actually like it)

I mean it's different when the media in question lacks diversity ig in those cases you could raceswap but again why is it always the character who is very clearly white ? What happened to media literacy and understanding characters ? Like genuinely I am capable of making better more respectful raceswaps lmfao

anyways idk how to word this it's 5 am good night

#brain michael bendis and legion of superheroes subtweet lol

[spandexinspace]

He did it again. Another issue where he totally skips the action to make people stand around and talk about stuff, including recapping the action we didn't see. The Legion have done this type of misdirection confession plot before, but that version still showed us the action leading up to the reveal, unlike this one which is just a boring part of a pattern of not showing action.

And that one page feels like he just copy pasted a anti-Batman post straight into his script. It doesn't make sense in universe.

Brainy informs us that he's smart, but that remains a informed attribute. He doesn't even seem to have done anything to help with the confession gambit.

Then there's this attempt to, idk, tell us that the moral of the story is "don't time travel" also feels out of place. He should know that. He shouldn't have been complacent with all the shit they've already caused in the first place. He's already acted like an idiot about it, who is he to dictate what anyone should do about it? He's so deeply stupid, despite the constant telling and not showing of the opposite, and I hate this version of him so much.

We still know fuck all about the Gold Lanterns, but apparently they need a corps now because what this already severely underdeveloped incarnation of the Legion needs is competition for page space. Hell, even the GLC can barely support a book right now and you expect people to buy into a totally new and poorly defined corps that doesn't even seem to work with the established lore? Does anyone even care about them?

Are we just going to ignore the shitty not-actually-a-love-triangle-because-the-writers-refuse-to-acknowledge-each-other? Can Imra stop being a creep?

This book has been an awful, dull mess. It's overcrowded, disjointed, filled with loose threads and "funny" dialogue that totally misses the mark and it just straight up isn't good. I'd even shy away from calling it a story, it's so incoherent that it barely even follows a story structure.

This version of the Legion is boring and unfocused and barely even feels like the Legion. Almost nothing that's been added to their lore in this run has been good, most of it hasn't even been developed beyond an extremely superficial level and a lot of it has been built on a poor understanding of the DCU. It was supposed to be a "diverse" take on the Legion, but that too is just a surface thing and the entire thing is just filled with unfortunate implications. I hope we never have to see them again, or at least that the next person who tries to write them just ignores 90% of what's been written so far and actually tries to write them well and as themselves.

[lilliofthvalley]

“Self-Portrait” Life’s an easy game Too clever by half. I probe The white teeth of death

Happy 60th Anniversary to Querl Dox, aka Brainiac 5