Legion of Super-Heroes and Deathlok

 

A no-nonsense cyborg working with a team of clean cut super-teens?  Sounds like a recipe for fast paced action and generational drama to me.

Legion of Super-Heroes and Squadron Supreme

 

Getting the LSH on the big screen will face the same hurdles as Shazam!  if you want a series of films, you run the risk of the young actors aging too rapidly and they've already outgrown their roles in a few years. I knw Warner Bros.  is trying to get away from expensive streaming series, but that might be the best solution for such a property.

Legion of Super-Heroes and Quantum Leap

 I didn't watch enough of the episodes to know if Sam Beckett ever leapt forward past the span of his own lifetime, but I'm sure he never went to the 30th Century.  Future jumps would have been cool to see, though, and made for some fun stories.  Especially if he leapt into the body of a certain Captain Jonathan Archer.

Legion of Super-Heroes and Eternity

 

The Marvel Universe has some truly powerful and mind blowing characters - Galactus, The Supreme Intelligence and so on.  I think one of the most amazing concepts has to be Eternity.  The leader of the abstract entities known as the Cosmic Powers of the Marvel Universe is basically the living embodiment of all that exists.  That something so great in scale could actually have conversations and interact with other characters always seemed a little far fetched and crazy - in a good way!  When comics think big, they think really big, and this is one part of the MCU that I always thought was cool, even if it didn't make a lot of sense to me.

Legion of Super-Heroes go Back to the Future

Has anybody read the new Brian Michael Bendis-penned Legion of Superheroes stories?  Are they worth checking out?  I love The Legion as a property, but they get restarted and rebooted so often that it is hard to get invested in the characters,  Will this latest iteration stick, or will another writer come along and revamp the team once again?

Legion of Super-Heroes and Cloak & Dagger

Brainiac 5 has been made a series regular for the upcoming season of Supergirl, and I hope that means that there's hope for a few more legionnaires to show up.  We've already seen Saturn Girl and Mon El, and I'd like to see Chameleon Boy, Phantom Girl, Wildfire, Dawnstar, Ultra Boy or Bouncing Boy appear - but really anyone will do.  Maybe if enough members are introduced and strike a chord with audiences, we can finally get a live action LSH spinoff show on the air.

Legion of Super-Heroes and Judge Dredd

The elimination of Superman's time as Superboy following Crisis on Infinite Earths really threw a monkey wrench into the Legion of Superheroes.  Attempts to fix it by using Kon-El, Pocket Universe Superboy or Supergirl in his place have never seemed to stick, and the LSH are currently in limbo.  Let's hope that they can find a way to click with audiences when they inevitably return.

Cosmic Boy and Polaris

This is a storyline that I have been meaning to come back to for a few years Longtime followers may remember STF issues #24 1nd #25, in which Magneto traveled to the future to battle the Legion of Super-Heroes and look for his estranged son,  Cosmic Boy... OK, it took me four years but better late than never, right?

The Legion of Super-Heroes and The New Mutants

These two teams have each seen their share of revamps and relaunches, which have taken their toll on both groups.  The Legion seems to get made over every few years and attempts to make them darker and edgier have backfired, in my opinion.  They are currently back in limbo, hopefully their inevitable return will feature a more classic version of the team.  The New Mutants have fared a little better, but still tend to get lost among the glut of X-teams out there, and they have lost a lot of their uniqueness.  Still, I will always have a soft spot for them, especially the members featured in the first two years of the original title.

Thanos Vs. the Legion of Super-Heroes

That quick tease which audiences saw during the end credits of The Avengers featuring Thanos was great, but left me wanting more.  Now I can't complain too much because Ultron is my favorite Avengers villain and we will be getting him in the sequel... but I have to wonder where we will see Thanos next on the big screen.  I thought  that Guardians of the Galaxy was the next most likely place for his reappearance but that film already has a host of villains and I haven't heard that Thanos will be making an appearance.  Will we have to wait for Avengers 3 to see him again or will he possibly make another cameo before that?

Legion of Super Heroes Vs. The Phoenix

This is a team up that I would have loved to have seen because it represents my favorite eras from two of the  most popular teams of my youth.  The Chris Claremont/Paul Smith run on Uncanny X-Men featured great superhero melodrama with inventive characters, menacing villains and stunning visuals.  The Brood Saga and The return of Phoenix were thrilling to read month to month.  The Legion of Super-Heroes never looked better than when George Perez would illustrate them, and his covers always made me want to read the stories within.  This was when they still had a simple continuity, before Crisis on Infinite Earths.  They never quite seemed to recover from the removal of Superboy from their history.

Legion of Super-Heroes and The Rocketeer

The Legion of Super-Heroes is a great team but can be a challenge for it's writers due to the sprawling cast.  One technique that DC has used a few times is to separate the team by time and space into different groups for long stretches.  I get a kick out of those tales because it's cool to see the Legionnaires outside of their futuristic setting and reacting to contemporary characters.  It might be interesting to see the LSH in a wartime setting, and seeing who they run into as they try not to alter history.

Legion of Super-Heroes and The Inhumans

This is the kind of story I would have loved as a kid.  I was, of course, a big fan of team and team up comics and I would love tales that would feature many characters interacting.  The master of this was Gardner Fox.  In his Justice League stories, he would have his characters split off into smaller teams for a series of chapters, and then bring everyone back together for a slam bang finale.  It was great to see stories on such a large scale, yet completely told in the span of a single issue.

Cosmic Boy Vs. Magneto

You didn't think that I'd ask the question, "What has Magneto done with Cosmic Boy?" without addressing it, did you?  Here we seen the motivation for his trip to the future.  I actually did these two covers months apart (hence the larger size on part two - eventually all covers will be this larger size as I changed up my templates shortly after I began STF).  Sometimes I will look back on an earlier cover and the story will suggest a follow up issue.  Hmm... now that I have established his lineage, maybe Cos will have to cross paths with his siblings one of these days...

The Thing and The Legion of Superheroes

This was a tough cover to make but I think it was worth the effort. The Legion looks to be set for yet another reboot along with the rest of the DCU. Hopefully the new series will be as reader friendly as possible despite the huge cast and long history of the team. Even though it was skewed towards younger viewers, I think that the Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes animated series did an admirable job of presenting the LSH to a new audience. I also got a kick out of the Smalville appearance, complete with the Persuader! I'd like to see DC devote one of its animated films to the LSH - The Great Darkness Saga would be a great storyline to adapt.