I'm supposed to interview Paul Levitz about his upcoming Legion of Super-Heroes run (his third -- and the second time he's followed Jim Shooter!) for Comics Buyer's Guide. So what should I ask him?
In other interviews he's stated that he's picking up with the original Legion as established by Geoff Johns in "The Lightning Saga" and "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" in the Super-books, and to a lesser degree, Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds.
For those who have forgotten, Levitz wrote "The Great Darkness Saga," the most reprinted Legion story. He also wrote the Legion (in his second run) not only up to Crisis on Infinite Earths, but after -- right up to Keith Giffen's "Five Years Later" around 1989 or 1990. So he wrote the death of the "pocket universe" Superboy, was involved in the many attempts to reconfigure Mon-El as a Superboy substitute (Valor), plus the introduction of a number of post-Silver Age Legionnaires, like Myg, the second Karate Kid; Kent Shakespeare; Laurel Kent (later revelead as a Manhunter); Quislet; and so forth.
And a further reminder: FC: L3W established that the "Zero Hour" Legion would become a new Wanderers (between dimensions, and without XS, who will be in the new series), and the Mark Waid Legion returned to its own timeline/dimension (which is different than the original Legion's).
I know, I know, it's complicated. But I understand it, because I was reading throughout. And I'm sure Levitz understand his own runs through 1990 pretty thoroughly, and can pick up basically from his last story (with whatever updates Johns made in the three stories mentioned above) -- he probably won't mention post-1990 developments that are the bread-and-butter of younger fans.
So what questions would help you folks understand better? Are there certain characters you really want to know about? What elements of the original run are you interested in seeing picked up? What Five Years Later or Zero Hour or Mark Waid bits would you like to see (re-)introduced to the new run?
And so forth. Let me know, Legionnaires, what you want to know about that OTHER Legion!
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But, there were a LOT of subplots/hints/ideas that floated around during the transition from the 5 Years Later Legion to the Zero Hour reboot, and I can't recall which ones went with which version. I think these were Levitz's though:
1. There were some weird ideas being floated about Lighting Lad and Saturn Girl: That Lighting Lad was really Proty, and that Validus was one of LL and SG's kids. Are those threads still out there, or are they best forgotten?
2. Karate Kid... still dead?
3. A lot of Levitz's run seemed to be guided by the Shooter's infamous Superman and the Adult Legion story (who got married, who died, etc). Is Paul going to put those "predictions" aside, or continue to use them in some way?
4. Braniac 5... still a potential loon?
Also, see if he could bring back Steve Lightle!
And it did. Levitz went through all the bits (including "Reflecto") that hadn't been fixed from Adventure #354, and fixed them. Levitz changed the future years ago ... and now he gets to do it again.
(I should explain the Captain was responding to this post. I reposted it without seeing his because I wanted to make a change. Sorry about that, Captain.)