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Kyle Pinion

The Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later – Approaching Middle Age in a Utopia

September 30, 2020 by Kyle Pinion 2 Comments

Let’s start this off with a controversial note: The Legion has only ever largely mattered once, and that was in a time frame that was just before I started reading comics. You see, before and after this one point, the Legion of Super-Heroes was a fringe concern. It still is, really. Just take one visit to any Legion related Facebook group, where the amount of complaints about the latest evolution of the team is only barely outweighed by people photoshopping classic-era outfits onto model photographs. For a team where the great thrill is the promise of the future, an era of acceptance, sadly so many of my fellow fans of the property are deeply focused on the past. An ongoing issue in comics fandom regardless, but all the more pronounced here.

Which of course highlights what a shadow its absolute commercial peak casts on everything else. [Read more…] about The Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later – Approaching Middle Age in a Utopia

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