Legion Abstract: Legion of Super-Heroes analysis and commentary

 I reviewed Jean M. Twenge's Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future at my other site ; please check ...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2024/07/new-book-review.html

(feel free to pass this around anywhere, if you find it of value) They say that if you're wondering what you would have done in World War II, or in the Civil War, or in relation to the civil ri...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2024/04/let-it-not-be-said-that-i-remained.html

 Sorry for not posting more. I don't mean to not post stuff here. But it's just so easy. Anyway, I recently appeared on the Legion of Substitute Podcasters: Tomorrow's Heroes Today podcast, d...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2024/04/listen-to-me.html

 I reviewed Neil Howe's new book, The Fourth Turning Is Here, which is about generational cycles, history, and the kind of nonsense we're all currently trying to survive here, on my other websit...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/07/book-review-fourth-turning-is-here-neil.html

In 2019-2020 I wrote a series of articles for the Time Travel Nexus website. I didn't stop so much as the website stopped updating; their newest article was posted in early 2021 and I haven't he...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/04/time-beacons-my-time-travel-nexus.html

TOYMAN, aka Winn Schott, aka Winslow Schott Jr., aka Computer Lad, of 21st-century Earth. Created by a bunch of TV writers drawing upon various pre-existing Toyman characters created by lots of p...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-legionnaires-toyman.html

 Before I wrote Legion Abstract, I wrote a superhero novel in blog form. It was fun. Now I'm doing something similar, a fantasy novel in blog form, and I'm posting it on my other site, first ins...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-new-thing-im-doing.html

 Those of you who've been reading here for a while will know that occasionally I have the honour of guesting on the Legion of Substitute Podcasters podcast . And the weeks I don't guest there, I...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-sad-news.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: Supergirl, freshly arrived on Earth, is having trouble fitting in with the Justice League because she's not used to using superpowers and misses the h...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2023/02/legion-of-super-heroes-animated-feature.html

I've pointed out before how, for a while, the Legion of Super-Heroes was the franchise that DC Comics used for a lot of their experiments with long-form storytelling. The story of Lightning Lad's...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-farm-in-country-where-he-can-run-and.html

I try to keep a master list of Legionnaires on this site. It's surprisingly difficult to decide just what kind of list it should be, but, anyway, here's this one. Please let me know if there's an...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/11/all-time-legion-roster.html

 Not going anyplace! Social media never should have moved away from blogs and RSS. Twitters may come and go, but long-windedness is forever.

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/11/just-to-say.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: We open on Vandal Savage as the sheriff in an Old West town. Everyone's scared of him. He's got Batman locked up in the hoosegow; apparently he's keep...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/09/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

 WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: The Justice League and the Legion of Super-Heroes put their heads together and things get a little tense while discussing Gold Lantern. The dark rif...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/08/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

 WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: The big dark rift in the sky continues to get worse as the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice League all try to figure out where and when they a...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/07/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

 Writer Jared Yates Sexton, whom I like, had a Substack post, and accompanying Twitter thread, a while ago about how today's political struggles aren't just about the present but also about our ...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/07/thats-some-catch-that-catch-52.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: While the rift is threatening the 21st and 31st centuries, Batman remembers that a Justice League villain named Epoch warned the League about Gold Lan...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/05/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: Everyone who disappeared last issue just went to the 31st century. We get some of Gold Lantern's backstory and some interacting between the Legion of ...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/03/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT:  The Legion fights a space monster, successfully, and then a weird darkness thing happens which causes one of Triplicate Girl's selves to disappear. T...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2022/01/justice-league-vs-legion-of-super.html

 It is the Christmas season, for those who observe, which signals the end of the year as measured by the Gregorian calendar, and as such it is time for us to take stock of our time which is endi...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/12/if-i-cannot-bring-you-comfort.html

 A quick thought about the "current" Legion of Super-Heroes comic book. There are things to like about it (the design, the energy, the faithfulness to the core ideas of the Legion) and things ...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/05/pan.html

I'm going to put a sentence here just because I want to try something. WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: The Legion confronts Element Lad and Saturn Girl discovers that he and the T...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/02/future-state-legion-of-super-heroes-2.html

WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: Damned if I know. Well, okay, I can do a bit better than that. We're some time in the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legion has been bro...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-happened-that-you-have-to-know.html

 WHAT HAPPENED THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT: Well, it's a big fight against Rogol Zaar and Mordru and the Horraz, and the Legion wins. Dr. Fate and Mon-El come back. REVIEW: I think we're s...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/01/happened-that-you-have-to-know-about.html

I used to have Legion-of-Super-Heroes-related links on the sidebar here. Maybe I'll put 'em back someday. If I do, I'll include Legion of Super-Heroes: The Complete Guides , which has the missio...

http://legionabstract.blogspot.com/2021/01/here-you-go.html