Thursday, August 14, 2008

Annotated "Legion of Three Worlds"

Issue #1 of "Legion of Three Worlds" comes out next week, and I intend to provide annotations. But I'm going to need help: my arcane knowledge and trivia retention is focused mostly on the Pre-Crisis Legion, and I remember far less about the Post-Zero Hour Legion or even the current Waid/Kitson/Shooter/Manapul version.

I'm not sure if the Legion World message board or Matthew Elmslie's Legion Abstract will be doing annotations, but I'll be checking out these for stuff I missed:

So that means I'll be relying on you guys to help me out - I'll have the first draft out on Wednesday night, so check back then and help me fill in the blanks and make corrections. Between now and next Wednesday I'll be doing a "created by/first appeared" feature so that I don't get bogged down with that while I'm doing the writeups. I hope you're ready for the challenge...
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6 comments:

  1. Timothy Callahan8/14/2008 11:46:00 PM

    My CBR column next week should be Legion-centric (a sort of celebration of each era -- a spark notes version with some light commentary), and if I feel up to it, I might annotate Legion of Three Worlds on my blog as well. Depends how much Johns and Perez throw at us and how weak my memory is.

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  2. Timothy Callahan8/14/2008 11:49:00 PM

    Oh, and did you see my shout out to you in my recent Newsarama interview?

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  3. Michael8/15/2008 02:21:00 AM

    No, I didn't. I checked Newsarama and I couldn't find anything written by you there, and your name didn't show up in a search of the site. I didn't see anything on CBR or your site, either. What did I miss?

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  4. Matthew E8/15/2008 07:58:00 AM

    I'll be reviewing, but I'm not going to do full annotations. I'd rather concentrate on insight than detail, which is not to say that detail isn't worth attention.

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  5. Timothy Callahan8/15/2008 09:35:00 PM

    Michael, try this:

    http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080804-GrantMorrisonEarlyYears.html

    If that doesn't work, google "Into the Mind of Grant Morrison"

    Oh, and when I say, "almost all the hardcore Legion fans I've met are only hardcore about one particular era," I'm not talking about you, definitely.

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  6. Michael8/16/2008 01:22:00 AM

    Matthew: Cool, I'll probably need your help here. You're much gooder at insight than me, who am like Bizarro reviewer.

    Tim - Ha! I love it. Too bad they didn't link back here when you mentioned me here. But I am one of those hardcore about the pre-TMK Legion, but I am also a fan of the Legion as a concept who will buy a book because it has a Legionnaire in one panel.

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