"They have come here for a reason, and that reason is because of something that happened in the Superman family. And that is all going to be revealed on page," Bendis tells Newsarama. "I know a lot of people are wondering what their connection is to the story. I’ve been teasing almost to the point of cruelty on Twitter about this."
"I’m so deeply excited that we’re revealing this cover and this information," said Bendis.
>SUPERMAN #15 >written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS >art and cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO >variant cover by ADAM HUGHES >At last, it’s the return of the Legion of Super-Heroes! The greatest super heroes of the 32nd century have traveled back in time not just to meet the heroes who inspired them, but to make an offer…but to which hero? And why will that choice tear Superman’s life apart? Plus, the fallout from Lex Luthor’s conversation with Lois Lane escalates! What dark secret did Lex tell Lois?
>but to make an offer…but to which hero? And why will that choice tear Superman’s life apart? Confirmed that Jon is being sent away to the future with Legion.
Bentley Fisher
Will Damian go along? >What's your superpower? D: Prep time.
Hudson Bailey
The Wayne fortune was invested in Buttcoin and in the 31st century his power is the same as Amazing Superbat.
Juan Young
>abandon your son in outer space where he ends up getting tortured for years by an alternate version of you >abandon your son again into the future Superman is a shitty father.
John Bell
What is this? The sidecut legion?
Jace Nelson
What the fuck is with those shitty haircuts
Jacob Bennett
Don’t forget, he sold out his superhero friends and gave their therapy info to Lois Lane for clickbait.
Caleb Richardson
The 31st century is a dark age of awful hair-styling. Also, all of them have swapped genders 3-7 times apiece.
Ryan Martin
>clearly the endgame for jon >turn him into a teen superboy to have in the new legion so that its not based on Superman's past >so even writing legion, bendis still gets to fuck with jon
How long until jon kisses a boy in the future?
Cooper Murphy
Reminder that Doomsday Clock is non-Canon. Even Scott Snyder said so. >**Nrama**: So does this tie in to Doomsday Clock at all? Because we’ve seen the seeds of the Justice Society returning in Doomsday Clock.
>**Snyder**: Not really. I mean, Doomsday Clock really is its own wonderful, incredible story. The kind of light connection between them is just that, what Geoff and I talked about was because Doomsday Clock is kind of running at its own pace and in its own kind of continuity, what I didn’t want to do was bring the JSA back before he had a chance to reintroduce them as a concept in issue #10.
>I think that’s similar with other characters that he’s going to be using in Doomsday Clock as well.
>So there’s a nod to each other in that regard. I wanted him to be able to have the JSA as an idea, and have that first appearance in Doomsday Clock.
>But in terms of the continuities linking up, Doomsday Clock is a very special and inspirational book. We’re all amazed, I think, at how good it is. **But its effects are relatively self-contained to itself.** DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS NOT CANON AND NOT IMPORTANT
Gavin Foster
Fuck I didn't know bendis was on the new LOS My interest is dead, guess I'll just reread the old issues again
Lucas Flores
Rokk is now ambiguously ethnic.
Alexander Jones
So what kind of OP Mary sue black girl will Bendis introduce into the legion
Robert Flores
Don’t blame Superman just because the DC higher ups hate characters having young children. That is like blaming Catwoman for being shit just because of King’s mentally ill writing.
Joseph Martin
so jon is going to the legion book guess we now know why bendis aged him up
Adrian Russell
God fucking dammit I hate Bendis
Ian Young
Probably the one he just made. Naomi or whatever.
Ayden Ross
If he does this there's no more "why are you losers so mad just read something else." The man is a scumbag and I hate the faggots that enable him.
It is amazing how much Jon can’t catch a break. First he gets sent away to space and now he gets sent away to the future. At this point, he is an event away from getting killed for shockvalue or someone else retconning him out of existence.
Xavier Taylor
Can we just fast forward to another Legion reboot? I don't think I can handle this one much longer, and it hasn't even started yet.
Dylan Bailey
Because Bendis is a petty fuck who doesn’t like younger heroes, save his own
Camden Anderson
"Saturn Girl, you are now a xir with sweet trap hips and no tits whatsoever."
If this run sells bad their going to think that there is no interest in the Legion. Instead of blaming bendis like they should.
Luke Richardson
Then why the fuck did they put him on Legion
Colton Ward
Because they probably promised he could make ANOTHER character like he did on Young Justice with Teen Lantern
Lincoln Murphy
Is it still hard to find a Legion download/torrent online? I remember it took me forever to find a working torrent years ago when I searched
Owen Richardson
>Superman is a shitty father. "Jon, I'm sending you into the distant future with this quintet of sweet young fuckboys I've just met." "Hug your mother goodbye, Jon. Don't forget the importance of lubrication."
Jacob Wood
We can all look forward to 30th century Poker night.
Elijah Wright
I for one absolutely love this. It's a modern homage to Superman's time with the Legion of Superheroes across many forms of media. A genius use of a new character, awesome set up for new Legion stories, and genius twist on a classic story.
Idk why y'all are complaining lol
Christopher Clark
The LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES is Cancer.
Joshua Edwards
Nooo not muh lil shota!! Bendis is le cancer!
Jackson White
Gay haircuts.
Isaiah Hernandez
>Bendis is le cancer! Bendis is still Cancer and The Legion is shit.
Evan Walker
Are those all boy superheroes?
Mason Robinson
The Legioni of Gay Super-heros.
Adam Hughes
Gay superheroes.
James Green
No I know! I'm so mad I can't take it!
Jaxson Stewart
>LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Returning Earlier Nobody cares.
Pfff, the only thing that could made legions-fag seethe is the change of continuities or designs. Almost every version of the Legion is a coded version of gay superheroes.
Brody Robinson
Jon Kent is dead.
Isaac Russell
Can someone explain to me why DC suck so much ?
Leo Foster
It's obvious Bendis didn't want to write Superfamily and he planned to make John a teen and just send him to the Legion so he can make teen drama with him there.
But yeah this essentially fucks up Jon's friendship with Damian. DC Editors are also fucking stupid because Supersons was popular and was doing good but like always they have to kill something that shows promise and people were buying.
Juan Thompson
Company run by hacks.
Isaiah Taylor
And usually it turns out to be something different, yeah, some of his decisions with Lois have been ridiculous...her not coping in space and abandoning Jon, prioritising her writing career over her husband's needs, smoking and drinking when Clark is kidnapped...now listening to offers from Lex Luthor? And somehow the message from Bendis remains "she's still devoted to her family?"
Carson Green
What's worse, Irma making him gay, or that time that she fucked him, felt bad about it, then mindwiped him?
Adam Baker
And she'll be a young black girl who, get this, is a genius.
Hudson Rogers
>Superman is a shitty father.
The problem with saying this is that it absolves Bendis (and anyone else who went with the story) from blame for that.
Andrew White
Holy shit I hate those haircuts, I swear the sidecuts and undercuts are the mullets of our generation.
Ryder Cooper
THANK YOU
Blake White
Clark:"Jon, I've learned to accept that you're gay and experimenting with Damian." "For your own good, I'm sending you forward into the 31st century, where everyone in the Universe is gender-fluid and you'll be accepted." Saturn Xir: "Yes, come Jon, we have such sights to show you!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The absolute state of DC.
Jon: "But Dad, I know I am a boy. A gay boy. You're son! I don't want to be a xir!" Clark: "Lalalalalala I can't hear you with super-hearing, there's a disaster in Africa. You'll feel better when you've had your side-cut and your Profem injections."
Landon Sullivan
This.
He'll die in the future in about two years out time.
Jaxon Wood
We've lost, bros. We've lost. DC is ruined (again). What will I do now? The only good thing I had to read was rebirth books.
>Clark:"Jon, I've learned to accept that you're gay Bendis says Conner is Gay... Bi disaster Tim Drake would make so much more sense ..
Aiden Cox
Bendis’s Lois Lane is a terrible human being when it comes to her family. It’s really frustrating when Tomasi’s version was a fierce mama bear. I hope Rucka can salvage her character. Meanwhile Jon and Clark are stuck with Bendis’s insanity for the foreseeable future.
Caleb Lopez
Bendis destroyed most of the good will and storytelling potential the previous creative teams built up. Maybe the next writer will fix him. But his future looks bleak.
Justin Smith
>But his future looks metrosexual. Fix'd.
Connor Richardson
>Cosmic Boy: "Jon, here's your very own Legion Flight-Plug!" >Jon: "Carrying this around will allow me to fly? I can already fly you know." >Saturn Xir: "Oh you don't CARRY it, per se. And it's Legion tradition. Lightning Lad and Cos will help you insert it."
>ACTION COMICS #1015 >written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS >art by SZYMON KUDRANSKI >cover by DAVID MARQUEZ card stock variant cover by GABRIELE DELL’0TT0 >Breakout Wonder Comics hero Naomi makes her Metropolis debut as the teen hero looks to Superman to help her navigate her unexpected new role as a hero in the DC Universe. Hoping to answer the remain questions about her origin, lineage and greater purpose on Earth, Naomi not only gets the attention of the Man of Steel but also Gotham City’s Dark Knight Detective, as Batman takes an interest in her quick rise to prominence.
>Bendis literally ruins and gets rid of Jon so he can shill his OC
I honestly hope some angry Jonfag in the future moves into DC management and has Naomi be brutally murdered by Prime Time. And don't say women of color. That didn't save Solstice from getting WALLED.
Josiah Adams
>ah, so you never heard of the legion Are you implying that current Superman went to the future as Superboy and teamed up with the Legion? Or that current adult Superman has met the Legion of Superheroes before?
Chase Ortiz
lower your standards and try enjoying the books again
Brayden Rivera
yea, even if it is a rebooted legion, when has a legion team never met superman in the past
Daniel Sanchez
>lower your standards Again?
Christopher Hill
To be fair, Superman and Legion continuity has been messed up the past few years (especially since New 52 and Post-Crisis fusing may or may not of changed stuff). It wasn’t helped that Johns held them hostage for his Doomsday Clock. The only reason pic related is happening is because Scott Snyder here admitted they (aka everyone at DC) are ignoring Geoff Johns shit and saying it is not canon.
Jeremiah Bailey
This appears to be their first meeting with Superman. So this is that meeting in the past. I'm willing to be corrected if you can cite where current continuity Superman has ever met the Legion of superheroes.
Juan Scott
This is fucking shit.
Chase Gonzalez
>What dark secret did Lex tell Lois? Oh right, that happened. How much do you wanna bet that it will end up being nothing important.
Adrian Turner
>LOIS LANE #3 >written by GREG RUCKA >art and cover by MIKE PERKINS variant cover by NICOLA SCOTT >Jon Kent surprises his mother with a visit to her hideout in Chicago with big news that ties directly into the events of SUPERMAN #15, also on sale this month. While Lois must deal with her now-17-year-old son making life-changing decisions, the two Questions—Renee Montoya and Vic Sage—try to understand their own confusing continuity. >>Jon Kent surprises his mother with a visit to her hideout in Chicago with big news that ties directly into the events of SUPERMAN #15 Yep, Jon is going Byebye.
It will probably lead to Clark and Lois getting a divorce. That way Lois can date Superman and Superman can break up with her whenever a writer wants to since they aren’t legally binderd. Then DC will finally have a young hip Superman that is not married and has no children (Jon will never come back and probably die in the future and will never be acknowledged ever again).
Leo Wright
No one at DC believes they will ever, ever make Superman "hip".
Angel Hernandez
So does Superman have any memory of meeting the LOSH before?
Ryan Stewart
They’ve been trying for years.
Dylan Wright
No one knows or cares. There is no straight forward continuity at DC. Writers are doing whatever the hell they want to regardless.
Jackson Myers
>Legion is back >it's Bendis >it's some pretentious "walk through time" bullshit Is it really so much to ask for cape-flavored Star Trek? That's kind of all anyone wants from this IP, especially since it predates Trek by nearly a decade, and was doing the same kind stuff before it was cool.
Shit, this has even happened before with Threeboot's edgy version of Codename: Kids Next Door. And even earlier than that with Five Years Later.
The Legion of Super-Heroes is space opera with superheroes. Stop attaching gimmicks to something that's already its own gimmick. For fucks sake.
I don care about this. The only thing tha can make me care is them travelling back in time to save young Jon from being tortured on earth 3 for seven years. I'm not buying this or the upcoming legion series because I'm Boycotting anything with the aged up Jon Kent and the Superman books in general and will continue to to do so, unless Jon Kent get's deaged and reset to how he was before Bendis aged him up.
It's de-age and reset Jon or nothing as far as I'm concerned.
Elijah Jenkins
Legion is generic superhero comics with some spaceships drawn in the background and cops with laser rifles instead of revolvers. It has never been good Sci-Fi/Sci-Fantasy, same as Green Lantern. It's superhero melodrama with hokey, boring "aliens" and unimaginative backdrops.
Chase Thompson
>it's some pretentious "walk through time" bullshit That's supposed to be the two issues of Millennium, then a regular LOSH ongoing starts
Landon Collins
You may as well ask them to travel backwards to stop Bendis' parents from ever meeting.
Isaiah Diaz
So basically Jon is going to the future and to fill the void they’re going to adopt a little black girl. It’ll either be that green lantern or a new character that is smarter than Batman.
I'm standing my ground. I'm not supporting any Superman book until Jon gets deaged.
Jonathan Morris
read a comic before you post please
Joseph Clark
what was her deal?
fashion ebbs and flows. maybe the future is going through an androgynous bad haircut period
Carson Sanders
>bendis ruins both Superman & The Legion I hate you Bendis. I hate you more than you can imagine with your tiny cuck brain. I hope you get stabbed in an attempted mugging.
Eli Taylor
SeeIt is probably Naomi. She is DC’s Miles Morales now.
James Ramirez
Ignore them. They're the kind of asshole who declares that something isn't "good sci-fi" because it doesn't conform to a bunch of arbitrary rules that they will never cite or explain why the work must adhere to these specific criteria to count.
Y'know... a snob.
Ryan Ramirez
Poor Night Girl.
Jacob Jenkins
>She discovers that she is a from an alternate Earth, gifted at birth with godlike powers, sent to Earth be preserved from Zumbado, the destructive conqueror of her birth's Earth. i don't know why i even asked. of course she's speshul.
I've read decades of Legion of Superheroes. Name 3 original science fiction concepts it has explored in its decades and decades of writing. I'll spot you one; the whole gender reversing drug. It's endless fighting Darkseid, the Fatal Five, Their own Evil Legion foes, and just a ton of fucking shipping nonsense. At some point there are usually 3-4 Kryptonian equivalents, making the clever/non-powerhouse Legionaires extra-useless.
Grayson Allen
Fuck Bendis and fuck Didio. This entire thing reeks of One More Day. With editorial/Bendis desperately wanting to undo the Super marriage and get rid of Jon but they know they can't just have Lois and Clark break up or Jon killed off so they've come up with bullshit reason after bullshit reason to slowly get rid of them both.
Joseph Miller
Pretty much. They hate married Clark with a kid and want to undo him. They want him to be like Spider-Man (heck, they want all their heroes to be exactly like Spider-Man) where he is single and banging random chicks and has no children.
Juan Roberts
>Bendis gets to keep on ruining Jon and now gets to ruin the Legion When will it end?
Jayden Adams
Wow I was just bitterly typing up some crackpot theory how was I right
Levi Lee
Thing is, it's especially baffling in this case. With Spider-Man, they want him young and hip because reasons, but Superman? This is Clark Kent we're talking about, THE borderline stereotypical all-American good ol boy. What possible reason could you have for not wanting this fucking guy be a family man? Dude is already Dweeby McSitcomdad, making it literal makes almost too much sense.
Guess Didio and friends were just sick to death of people actually liking any of their creative decisions. Morons.
Evan Myers
When people aren't buying the comics
Asher Garcia
Jesus, Bendis does not fucking like Jon.
Jaxson Bailey
F
Tyler Ramirez
So, Superman is Goku and Naomi Uub making Batman Piccolo???
Adrian Wood
>She is DC’s Miles Morales now. She'll never be that. He was able to piggyback off the Spider Man name. This whore won't. Bendis will try shoving her down our throats until fan outrage will demand she goes back to her home planet.
Ryder Thompson
They literally forced Snyder to change his statement so that he doesn't call it noncanon anymore in the article. Stop only posting the non edited quote
Mason Lopez
This.
Asher Turner
What the fuck? Why does the Legion look like complete shit?
Daniel Foster
God if that’s what they want. And it probably is. Can’t they just get it over with and retcon the kid. It would suck. I love Jon. But slowly ruining him like this, is just painful.
Carson Bell
Because they have to be extreme and kewl to relate to Zoomers that don’t read comic
John Kelly
>lower your standards I don't think they can get any lower
John Thomas
This is probably awful but thank God Bendis is on legion and not something I care about.
Andrew Wilson
He’ll get to what you care about eventually. He always does. He is like a plague that spreads everywhere.
I was actually a little excited about the Legion announcement even if Bendis. I like the designs and I thought I might be willing to give him another opportunity to disappoint me. But I see this and I remember what he's done to Jon and to Lois and the whole Superman property and I'm immediately disinterested again.
Dylan Johnson
God, those designs for the main three are so shitty. Ugh.
Dylan Anderson
Also, if he saw the videos Lois has, that probably means he saw Wally’s confession video. Which means he knew Wally was alive and the murderer, and played dumb during HiC.
Making him even bigger of a shithead.
Dominic Jenkins
He can touch everything except one character. And I know for a fact his daddy will never let Bendis touch him, especially after the tweet he made.
Who? I only remember Bendis tweeting that Wonder Woman was a walking STD farm.
Landon Cook
You don't need to know, but just know he will never get his hands on him.
Ryan Bailey
>They literally forced Snyder to change his statement so that he doesn't call it noncanon anymore in the article Damage Control.
Scott Snyder admitted and purposely told everyone that Doomsday Clock is not canon and not important. The fact that he was yelled at by DC and forced to say otherwise doesn’t change the fact that he said it originally with honesty.
Heck, the fact that Bendis is writing LoS and Snyder is doing JSA is proof that no one at DC gives a fuck about Doomsday Clock as the book hasn’t even finished and they are already ignoring it and using the characters he was holding. And the same is going to happen to Three Jokers.
David Edwards
The nice thing about supers hanging out with the Legion is they can always hop in a time machine when another writer decides that's enough of that.
Carson Foster
How far back was this tweet?
Andrew White
The author of the tweet was low key calling out Bendis, not by name, but by implication.
Oliver Perez
No, Superman is a great father. Bendis is just a shitty writer.
Lincoln Peterson
>Bendis' OC book is performing so poorly that he's forcing her in a book people would buy I'm glad Marvel let him go
Christopher Flores
Marvel still has to deal with Ewing's cancer though so they're the ones in real trouble.
Jaxon Brown
>After getting aged up, tortured, and ruined, Jon is sent off ino the future with the LOSH. And he wants to go, people! Just like he did with crazy grandad! >Never getting de-aged >Super Sons gone for good. >Naomi ("Breakout Wonder Comics Hero who is even more popular than fan-favorite Harper Row!") arrives in Metropolis and takes his place.
Why does Bendis still get work? His sales have been tanking since he took it over.
William Diaz
Is this the One More Day of Superman? I hope news of this has flooded DC twitter with autistic hate Because he's a cocksucker with friends in the right places
Adam Lee
Because remember when he made Daredevil and Alias?
Xavier Green
You mean aside from destroy it?
Jack Nguyen
At this rate it'll happen sooner rather than later.
Adrian Scott
The questions is more about how he'll go about dismantling it.
Fuck I hate this. I don't even want Jon to de-age anymore. Bendis did too much shit with him already, and now this. It's not the same anymore. I was glad that Jimenez ignored this crap when he did that page in JL but that and the last issue of Tomasi's mini is most likely the last we'll see for that incarnation. Jon is practically a Bendis character now. It won't be until he finally fucks off back to Marvel will someone even probably try to attempt something better with this like with Riri and Miles or the O5 X-Men (Fuck X-Men actually is still crap)
Nathan Torres
So, Ultimate Future Foundation, huh?
Tyler Gomez
Hope young john meets his buddy as an Old Immortal Batman