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Kurt Busiek@kurtbusiek.bsky.social |
To expand a little on something, when I say "I don't think they [the Legion] get seen as superheroes the way the JLA do," I don't mean they don't get seen as superheroes. It's in the name, even. But I think there's a different quality to what "superhero" signifies in the Legion's era. If the...
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Kurt Busiek
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...JLA was like the JLA we have now, but everyone in Illinois had superspeed and Barry was the best at it, and everyone in California had a power ring (of wildly-varied strength) and everyone in Connecticut could shrink, and so on, we'd think of "superhero" differently, too. The Flash wouldn't...
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Anthony Damiani
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Do they work today as a concept? They always seemed to me like a weird blend of silver age goofiness and a continuity that is intimidating even by comic standards. Is it possible the best place for them at the moment is as a little side setting for other DC adventures?
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