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The original Legion should get an Earth. These were the ones that interacted with Clark when he was a kid. He traveled to them not only through time, but also through a dimensional rift.

Then the five-years-later Legion should get an Earth. (Maybe they can be in the Frank Miller/Dark Knight Returns Earth. They could be all dark and angsty together!)

Then the SW6 Legionnaires should be from yet another Earth, and they somehow accidentally fell into the 5YL Earth by accident (actually, that clears up a lot of continuity problems)

Then the post-zero-hour Legion should get their own. (I'm thinking the current Earth-1. I like how they work with Kon-El.)

Then the threeboot Legion can be from Earth-prime.

There, I fixed it. Now GO BE HAPPY. Also, buy Legion.


(and to everyone who want the original Legion to meld seamlessly with the 5YL and SW6 the way they were originally printed - that can be a whole 'nother Earth, just for you (although the original and the 5YL share the same continuity up until the random five year gap when they split)

And the supposed original Legion that appears in the comics now is some other weird blend of the Legion as well, because it's mixing in only select bits of 5YL info, but not all of it. IS GARTH PROTY OR NOT? So they can get their own Earth too, dammit. We'll call them the post-Final-Crisis Legion.)

It really makes a lot of sense for the threeboot Legion to be from Earth-prime. It has been established in their continuity that they have the same comic books that we read today, and the premise of Earth-prime it that it's just like our Earth, but with a Superboy.

So, with a little handwaving, threeboot Leigon is inspired by Superboy (the only superhero of their Earth) and the idealism of superhero comic books from the 21st century. Cool.

Except for the whole "Earth-prime was destroyed in the Crisis!" Isn't the whole point that Superboy-prime doesn't have a homeworld to return to!? I admit to not having payed a lot of attention to the more recent (ie: that past 4 years) development in crises because they were coming fast 'n furious and not always easy to follow.

But like I said. Handwaving all around.

Ugh.

I just read about the new DC series, Countdown that's going to start at the end of 52. It's going to another year-long weekly title. Now, I happen to be enjoying 52 a lot. Mostly Booster running around (Not dead yet! Although we know he dies in costume, which is kinda creepy...) and the Animal Man, Starfire, and Adam Strange Adventures in Space! is tons of fun. But I find the constant hints at other characters and comics that are obviously meant for the people reading them frustrating much of the time. I simply cannot afford to buy that many comics, plus I wouldn't even want to if I could.

Plus, I'm going off on my own next year and I can't just keep getting money from the 'rents to pay for comics and such.

But I miss how it was when I first started reading comics. There was a general status quo, and I could pretty much pick up any book and figure out what was going on in a few issues, or with a quick web search. I was excited by big crossover events, first War Games in the Batman books (though I was sorely disappointed with the whole let's kill Steph because we can! subplot and I'm thankful I didn't read most of the follow-up issues, such as the destruction of Leslie Thompkins as a nice wholesome character) and I tried to keep up with the going-ons in as many books as possible. Crossovers, after all, are something pretty much exclusive to the comic book medium. There aren't many places where two basically independent series' can just visit each other whenever they want. I must admit, the idea still thrills me, and I really like mini-crossover events, like Teen Titans/Outsiders and Robin/Batgirl and such.

But DC is totally abusing the privilege. In the old days (read:1989) when the first Crisis hit DC, it was a company-wide event, but it was ONE series, coming out ONCE a month, that would briefly touch on other series'. Admittedly, I wasn't really up to reading at that point (I probably didn't master my first word by the time it was over) but I know for a fact that they had handy little boxes at the bottom of panels to indicate which comics one would have to read to keep up.

But once the series was over, DC slowly retconned itself into a new status quo, and stuck with it! (At least until Zero Hour)

Now crossover events are the new big thing, although I see some differences between the way DC handles them and Marvel handles them, the fact remains that they happen more frequently then pre-1989. But the genral trend seems to have been: Big crossover event, stuff changes, stuff settles down, continuity get messed up again, then a new big crossover event, etc.

But jeez DC, give it a break! First Identity Crisis, then Countdown to Infinite Crisis, then Infinite Crisis, then The Omac Project, Rann/Thanagar War, Day of Vengeance, Villains United, then 52, now this Coundown? Plus, I've ignored things like Green Lantern: Rebirth and Adam Strange: Planet Heist! (or whatever it was called), plus upcoming stuff like Amazons Attack! It's getting a little annoying, DC. When do you settle down to this new, Superboy-Prime-punched status quo and just let the reader figure stuff out for a while? I'm thrilled that some lesser-known characters are getting a chance to shine, but really. Give me a couple of years where comics don't change at the drop of a hat and characters don't keep dying left and right. Please? Just for a little while? Then you can let Supergirl misplace time or have Darkseid bowl with the planets to explain your bad retconning, but give me a couple of years to get used to the aftermath of Superboy Prime for a while, kay?