The content here is from a Facebook group called Original Legion of Superheroes and a super fan by the name of Jim Gallagher. Props to Jim for all these great valentines.
Happy Valentine's Day from the Legion of Superheroes.
And at the end, a reminder that it's the Feast of Lupercalia or better known as Horny Werewolf Day.
Either way, Happy Sunday.
https://screenrant.com/dc-admits-legion-of-superheroes-makes-no-sense/
DC Admits Why The Legion of Superheroes Doesn't Make Sense
DC Comics finally makes light of Superboy and the Legion of Super-heroes history of time travel conundrums that leaves readers scratching their heads.
DC Comics’ Legion
of Super-heroes is an intergalactic crime-fighting organization active
in the distant 30th and 31st centuries. When Legionnaires like Lightning
Lad, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy wish to interact with present-day metahumans,
they utilize a technology common to their era: Time travel. While time travel
can solve a great many problems for this teenage team of futuristic do-gooders,
hopping from one millennium to the next can quickly get complicated. In fact,
oddities arising from time travel and DC’s ever-changing multiverse have
resulted in several reboots of the Legion of Super-heroes over the years. Recently,
the publisher made light of this fact and finally acknowledged that the Legion
of Super-heroes doesn’t always make sense.
Jonathan Kent, the son of Superman and Lois Lane, was born in 2015’s Convergence: Superman #2 and became an immediate fan favorite. By the age of ten, Jonathan had donned the mantle of Superboy and was sharing adventures and life-lessons with his legendary dad. Jon’s childhood was cut short, however, when he embarked on a deep-space mission with his grandfather, Jor El, and returned a teenager in Superman #7. Writer Brian Michael Bendis’ decision to rapidly age the beloved character has proven a controversial one. Criticisms aside, a seventeen-year-old Superboy successfully set the stage for the return and reimagining of the Legion of Super-heroes.
Jonathan Kent is offered membership in the Legion of Super-heroes in Superman #15. From this point on, most of Jon’s time is spent in the 30th Century. His mother and father often comment about how much they miss him. In Action Comics #1028, Jimmy Olson finally points out this unacknowledged time travel quandary. After briefly returning to help defeat Red Cloud and the Invisible Mafia, Jon says that it’s time he returns to the 30th Century. Jimmy replies, “But if you have a time machine – ” and is quickly hushed. If Superboy has a time machine, can’t he go back whenever he wants? This time travel incongruity is only the first of several problems with the Legion of Super-heroes.
The original Legion of Super-heroes was created by Otto Binder
and Al Plastino in 1958. Since then, the superhero organization has endured a
reboot in 1994, a “threeboot” in 2004, and a Post-Infinite Crisis incarnation
in 2007. Each has seen its own successes and failures. Perhaps the biggest
appeal of a futuristic setting is that storytellers aren’t constrained by comic book continuity. The
future can be whatever a writer wants it to be. The latest volume of the Legion of
Superheroes and Action Comics #1028 were
both written by the aforementioned Brian Michael Bendis, with art by Ryan Sook
and John Romita Jr. respectively.
The Legion of Super-heroes is a fun idea. The characters are compelling and the stories generally entertaining. Still, time travel precipitates mind-bending conundrums. Lois and Clark should never miss Jonathan. If he reappears in the same moment in time from whence he left, his departure and return should to them seem instantaneous. Couldn’t the Legion just go back in time and fix any mistake or stop any cataclysmic event? Is it really a good idea to reveal the future to Superboy at all? If Star Trek or Back to the Future has taught fans anything, it’s that tampering with timelines can have catastrophic consequences. When reading Legion of Super-heroes, try not to think too fourth-dimensionally.
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