Welcome to another very special session of the [Legion Fan Club], 4 years 1 month of [Legion Fan Club] fun now, as we continue our quest to read all of Legion tales digitized on DC Universe Infinite…one issue at a time!
June 7th 2023 Reading: THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1980-) #284-286 (Feb-Apr 1982), just before the start of the Great Darkness Saga! WRITTEN BY: Paul Levitz Art by: Pat Broderick
What is your favorite part of Karate Kid’s story through these three issues?
Are there any favorite scenes this time around with the pre-Crisis Superboy for you?
Which of the three Legion comics had the best storyline and villain?
Please post any favorite panels, covers or pages in the discussion below as well.
We’ll plan to do this again in two weeks with next Legion reading!
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It’s amazing to me how Karate Kid keeps showing up from one iteration of Legion to the next over the decades.
I was an adult reading comics when the whole Kung Fu and Karate craze set the comics on fire with Master of Kung Fu and Richard Dragon and also of course Karate Kid. It’s just amazing to me that someone without wild sci-fi Powers continues to work well with these different groups like The Legionnaires of the 90s and even the most recent Legion of Super-Heroes group by Bendis.
I agree, I enjoy having him as part of the team and also in this three issue story run.
I’ve always liked the KK and PP relationship, I don’t know if i had a favorite part of KK in this arc, but seeing how easily he was defeated by PP’s cousin was a bit disappointing.
Him offering to give everyone a hot foot was funny.
The Best storyline was seeing Dreamy kick ass, in issue 285, none of the villains were that impressive in these issues to me. I felt like Organus was a potential great villain, but defeated too easily.
I was glad to see so many of my favorite characters in these three issues, but I’m wondering if the story lines wouldn’t have been better served making each of these a little longer to develop them better.
I didn’t get a chance to re-read these this week, but I will say I loved Val and Jeckie’s relationship overall and the “Anybody Home” cover is one of my top ten Legion covers.
This cover showed the danger the Legionnaires were in very well. This was also the first time I ever saw the legion and the diversity caught my attention.
I love the simplicity of the design and it showed that these were not your old legionnaires well. I also enjoyed the other two times they used the same basic pose with different characters.
I know most people like the cover of 294 better (the bowing to Darkseid cover) but this was more engrossing to me and I like that Kal and Jo are literally trying to keep the Legion from falling.
The idea of the Legion using the Time viewer to look at themselves made sense. also, the back cover had the younger characters looking at the older ones in the same positions
a classic full roster that doesn’t seem crowded. I wish the DC indices had continued, but I think the info for the next few issues was posted on-line somewhere.
I love Lee’s Brin and this is my favorite of his costumes. This isn’t on the list only because I saw it first as a poster of all the alt covers and I don’t think of it as a cover.
This may actually be my favorite cover of any comic, minimalistic and evocative. I cried reading this and find it ironic that issue 38 of the next series is when the Earth blows up.
That’s quite the heavy hitter list, thank you for posting.
It actually took me a little bit to figure out what you meant by the mug ring, I kept looking for someone that had a mug on their finger lol, then I finally saw the circle in the upper left corner.
I have a thread I posted a long time ago here celebrating covers with a solid color theme like a white cover or a blue cover even with either none or very little background, so all the covers you have like that I immediately would agree with you on.
There’s something about the gold lettering along the top of the anniversary issue 300 that really helps that cover pop as well.
The red topper for Adventure Comics 500 is really cool and the way they change up the back and front cover is fun as well.
It’s too bad I’m so easily influenced, but I’m going to go find out what the ICG Illustrated Index of the Legion goes for these days on the web.
I have to say I love all the covers you posted. Your no. 1 is my favorite as well.
There are an few other Legion Covers, that I like as well, here they are.