Nah. Trust in the Waid. The Waid is good. If the Waid fails us, trust in the Johns.
I don’t see any problem to be resolved here. There is a 30th centurie. It contains the Legion, as well as the Flash, and many other people besides. No reason for any of these facts to clash. Besides, on seeing Secret Origin’s Young Justice issue, I see a distinct resemblance to the civilian clothing seen in flashback in Bart (Impulse)'s origin, and the legion uniforms. So, the design seen must be a common jump suit design, at the time.
The 31st century that Bart comes from no longer exists.
In the new 31st century, there haven’t been superheroes for centuries - probably since the mid-21st century.
The United Planets is a new organization. Cargg is a world destroyed and depopulated by some catastrope that nobody - least of all its lone inhabitant - remembers. The Science Police enforce a stifling order. And order which the Legion of Superheroes (who idolise the superheroes of the 20th and 21st centuries) organized to fight against.
The new 30th century might have a Barry Allen, but it does not have a Flash.
I need to keep in touch with comics more. I had no idea.
The timeline was altered…8, 9 months ago after the Legion/Teen Titans special. Checks The Special comes between Teen Titans 16 and 17, so that would be 8 months.
Basically, the Fatal 5 was cutting into different timelines and drawing their duplicates into the main timeline - they’d already gotten to be the Fatal Five Hundred, and Persuader was still bringing new ones in.
After a fight spanning both the 21st and 31st centuries, the final rift in the timeline allows the Titans to go home, but alters time so that Shikari, when she comes back into the timeline is in an unfamiliar, much more oppressive 31st century than the one she left.
Oh! Something occurs to me.
The old Legion was wiped from the timeline at the time relative point that the Titans ran into their darker, older selves, after the Crisis caused things to go bad… Which could account for the rapid decline in superheroes.
I’m wondering if Waid intends to tie his Legion in with Infinite Crisis… Going to the end of Infinite Crisis would give him time to wrap up this storyline satisfactorily before the more positive outcome of the Crisis causes another shift…
As someone who’s really looking forward to Infinite Crisis: I sure hope not.
One really positive factor of Waid’s L*SH is that it seems impervious to retcons and events in the present age. All that meeded to happen in the 20th/21st century is that there were superheroes. Doesn’t matter who they were or what exactly they were doing. No Superboy? No problem. Never again will screwing around with the mainstream DCU necessitate yet another Legion reboot.
Besides, there’s a certain irony in that after the Crisis all the Present-Day DCU books will skip ahead a year, and the Legion will not.
Why is it that my episode taped that night involved Shayera, Vixen, and Vigilante fighting a bunch of Thanagarians and not this!?!
Because you’re American, not Canadian.
Hey, no fair making fun of the American – he can’t help where he was born.
Really, so, are you a week ahead or a week behind or do you just get shows I’ll never see?
They’re something like three or four episodes ahead, I forget which. But they’ll eventually be played here.
You know, I think that Hal Jordan is going to show up again in the last episode.