And finally Geoff Johns and George Perez have drawn their titanic Legion Of 3 Worlds mini-series to a conclusion.The cross time and space struggle between Superboy-Prime and the various Legions escalated to Ragnarok levels of destruction and reality altering with, unsurprisingly, the various iterations of Brainiac 5 hitting on the final solution to the Legion's problem.
There's even a natty explanation of why the Time Trapper's identity shifts between revelations (in this story he is an aged, immortal Superboy-Prime).
The various temporal threads and alternate realities were resolved in the end; although it's not necessary to fully understand the implications of all the resolutions to enjoy the book enough plot hooks were dangled for future stories to keep the Legion alive in the DC Universe for centuries to come (which is the main thing).
In the this issue we saw the future revival of the Green Lantern Corps, the rise of the Black Witch (a transformed White Witch after her triumph over the magics of Mordru), the return of Bart Allen and Connor Kent to the Teen Titans and the very, very creepy fate of Superboy-Prime.
Because this comic took so long to appear, it's actually now in the running - despite being just a five-issue mini-series - to be the HeroPress Comic Book Of The Year for two years running, but a lot of that depends on how well Blackest Night (which has started so incredibly) develops over the next six months or so.
Nevertheless, Geoff Johns has firmly established himself as my current favourite comic book author with his grasp of fan-friendly continuity and large-scale storytelling.
I also can't wait to see more artistry from the brilliant George Perez. It was his work on the Teen Titans (when it was written by Marv Wolfman) that really fueled my deep love of superhero comics in the 1980s and every time I read one of his team books it transports me back to those simpler, innocent times.
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I am so with you on this brother. Johns is the best writer of comics working today. I sometimes wish he would give Bendis some tutoring on how to advance a story and make each page a new, exiting reveal. Johns just instinctly knows how these characters would react in every given circumstance and nobody writes group dynamics like him. Add to that Perez who in his whole life has NEVER drawn a bad panel and is the master of the multicharacter epic. 100 years from now this is the teamup they will be talking about. They single handedly saved the Legion of Superheroes and reminded us why we love them. Bravo
Thanks, couldn't agree with you more ;-D In a way I'm glad Geoff Johns hasn't been schooling Bendis as it makes the Marvel titles that much easier to ignore each month (and keep my expenditure down!)
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