Here we go. This is becoming a much bigger thing than even I thought it would originally. Which is not a bad thing. I am having a lot of fun with this. Expect multiple posts per issue, at least starting out, as there is so many things to reference and mention. I want to post pics as often as possible, giving the sense of history that was involved with this undertaking by the creative team. They really did a lot of planning and put a lot of thought into what was to come.
Legion
of Super Heroes V4, Issue 1
Tom
Bierbaum says in his Blog, “It’s Okay, I’m a Senator.” that “Keith and we spent
several hours on the phone mapping out his plans for the universe and what had
happened in the five-year gap, so that he and we felt like we knew where we
were going and could write something that would tie together over the long
haul. I understand that Keith and our inker Al Gordon did the same thing and
Keith gave Al a lot of input on the series and on the direction certain
characters took.”
This
suggests obviously that there was a great deal of thought that went into this
series and that the changes that were intended were not them flying by the seat
of their pants. At least that was their
plan. As we will see as the first half
of a year of issues are reviewed here, there were other things in play that
would continually throw a monkey wrench into their plans. To their credit, in this fans mind anyway,
they found a way to work through it all…and even give us one of the single best
comics I have ever read.
