Magneto has become of one of comicdom's most complex villains doe to his ever changing status in the Marvel Universe, as well as the skillful onscreen portrayals by Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellan. Much is made of how his tragic past and sympathetic motivations give him shades of grey, but frankly I always enjoy him best as a straight up villain. Sure, in his mind he may think what he is doing is right, but at the end of the day he is no better then Dr, Doom and the Joker. The Legion depicted here is from my favorite era of that team. Paul Levitz, one of the architects of that LSH phase, is writing their current adventures. I'll have to check some of those out and see if they have any of the old magic.
"The Legion depicted here is from my favorite era of that team." Ross, you must be referring to the multi-issue run from '81-'82, when the Legion was up against Darkseid, culminating in the Annual (1982) where every member who had ever been in the Legion guest-starred. I remember that Annual, because I was only in the fourth grade and didn't have the money to buy it (2 bucks!)until years later as an adult in law school (found the issue in a comic book shop in Maine)!
ReplyDeleteI wish the current Legion issues did have that magic: that was one of my favourite periods of LSH history. Sadly, Levitz's dull scripts are a pale imitation of his glory days.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Legion era, I know which issue that cover was taken from, and I can see Magneto being the kind of villain that it takes the entire Legion to take down. Nicely done!
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ReplyDeleteCool! I thought the Access issues with the Legion and X-Men: Days of Future Past were pretty cool.
I read somewhere, somebody like Mark Waid or Peter David or somebody - I can't remember who off the top of my head - said that what we have in comics these days is fan fiction. All the classic, great stories have been told already...
I don't know who is writing LSH now, but sadly it seems all the best writers from the 1980s (Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, Mike W. Barr, Len Wein) eventually burned out and ruined what created. By 1991, the Titans, The Outsiders, The X-Men and the JLA became unreadable.
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