That's the original Legion, not a rebooted version (as explained in the Superman/Legion arc in Action Comics recently ).

I gotta say Legion of Three Worlds was good.

The threat is impressive. The plan is interesting. The means is inspired.

I like i-words apparently, but aside from that, this was a good read and looked really nice.

Um, remind me what happened to Dr.Light

Honestly, it really was. I loved the Superman museum even acknowledging the other Supermen (with Kal-L being more prominent than the others), but I'm a mark for the multiverse anyway.

I noticed they didn't mention anywhere that Superboy-Prime killed Kal-L....

Turned into a wax candle and lit up by the Spectre in Final Crisis: Revelations #1. That's it. He's done.

Original as of when? I mean, where is the cut-off from? Geoff Johns' version (the original) are ignoring which reboots, exactly? What would have been their last appearance prior to the Action Comics reintroduction which I obviously didn't read?

I believe it's before the first Crisis. Superman states he 'never saw them again' after the first Crisis in either Justice League, JSA or Action (sorry i can't be more specific), but also states in FCLoTW that he met 'two other Legions'.

Sol is right. The "Action Legion" is the Pre-Crisis Legion up until around the time of the first Crisis, then they seem to have a different timeline (no 5 Year later, no Mordruverse, no Valor, etc. etc.). The only significant difference seems to be some ambiguity as to whether Clark was called "Superboy" or not (thanks to the ongoing legal battle for the character), and a big fat question mark as to Supergirl's role. Think of it as a "DeBoot".

Good. I've hated that S.O.B. ever since Identity Crisis. (Truth be known, I wasn't all that wild about Identity Crisis anyway; both of those Silver Age gals deserved better than what Melzer did with 'em)

The Spectre needs to find a new schtick -- he did that candle trick back in the 70's Wrath of the Spectre series. (Both the scissors thing and the airplane thing were better anyway -- I can't decide which I like more)

I would say the Johns Legion - with a few "glitches" (interestingly, ones that entailed previously dead characters now back-to-life but dying again) - is actually done as if the Legion went up to Magic Wars and then the series continued without v4.

The outfits are very much in a similar pattern - frankly, not to my taste - and you'll notice that Pol is still deceased; on the other hand, no sign of Tellus, Quislet, etc. (who would have also been there before the Great Crisis though.)

Oh and look at the main villain - He Returns! Darn right it's interesting to have him back in the house.

As in THE original Legion of Superheroes series from the 1960's. It was called Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes for quite awhile and then they dropped Superboy from the title. It was after Crisis On Infinite Earths in the late 80's that they've gone thru so many reboots. Now, the originals are grown up like Superman. So, any Legion that came out after COIE is a reboot. Goeff Johns brought back the originals, with a few tweaks here and there, mostly dealing with the legal use of the word Superboy. And I gotta say, I read a lot of these stories with Mon-El and everyone and once I saw Johns brought them back in Action Comics and The Lightning Saga in Justice Society of America and Justice League of America, I've been hooked ever since and couldn't wait to pick up Legion of Three Worlds!

Are we sure Pol's dead? I can't remember that being stated, just that he, Quislet and Tellus are absent from that group of inductees (Hopefully not for long, I definitely want to see a Quislet/Gates team-up).


I stick to the breaking point being somewhere around LSH v.3 #13-18 (i.e. Crisis time), as the stuff that came after doesn't seem to be cannon (especially the "Conspiracy" stuff). At least we can safely jettison all the 5YL drek.

A lot of them are still MIA. After the end of the Action Comics' arc the others went to look for them.

You know, now that I think about it......there is NO Superman in the future. He COULD fill the void he always wanted....of being THE Superman somewhere!! (Maybe even become Mon-El/Valor in rebooted history ? )
It would be interesting if he does somehow see the light....I just can't see how he COULD be redeemed.

You can't kill Kal-L and be redeemed.

(As for 5YL, well, guess that's another thread but I admit there were parts I really really liked and parts I despised - there is a reason though my user ID is Rokk Krinn and not Cosmic Boy. )