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Callahan, Timothy, ed. Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes. Sequart Journal. Edwardsville: Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, 2008. Added by: joachim (11/10/09, 6:35 PM) Last edited by: joachim (11/12/10, 4:54 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0615203221 BibTeX citation key: Callahan2008 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Legion of Super-Heroes", Collection of essays, Superhero, USA Creators: Callahan Publisher: Sequart Research & Literacy Organization (Edwardsville) |
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For 50 years, the Legion of Super-Heroes has occupied its own, vital corner of the DC Universe – and comics fandom. The Legion’s expansive cast, bizarre characters, futuristic setting, extended storylines, and elaborate continuity all set it apart from other super-hero comics. This essay collection, from fans and scholars alike, is as diverse as Legion history. Essays examine significant runs (by Jim Shooter, Paul Levitz, and Keith Giffen); the Legion’s science, architecture, and fashion; the role of women, homosexuality, and race; the early Legion’s classical adaptations, teenage cruelty, and relation to the early Justice League; Lightning Lad’s death and resurrection; whether the Legion should be allowed to age; the Amethyst saga; the themes of the reboot Legion; and the so-called Threeboot’s relationship to adult adolescence and generational theory. Table of Contents Matt Fraction: Foreword (1) Timothy Callahan: Introduction (4) Richard Bensam: The Perfect Storm: The Death and Resurrection of Lightning Lad (9) John G. Hemry: Liberating the Future: Women in the Early Legion (37) Christopher Barbee: The Silver Age Legion: Adventure into the Classics (49) Chris Sims: The (Often Arbitrary) Rules of the Legion (59) Jeff Barbanell: Shooter’s Marvelesque (64) James Kakalios: The Legion’s Super-Science (86) Scipio Garling: Bridging Past and Present with the Future: The Early Legion and the JLA (100) Sara K. Ellis: Decades Ahead of Us to Get It Right: Architecture and Utopia (113) Greg Gildersleeve: Those Legionnaires Should Just Grow Up! (126) Timothy Callahan: Thomas, Altman, Levitz, and the 30th Century (136) Lanny Rose: The Amethyst Connection (166) Julian Darius: Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Giffen’s Legion (179) Alan Williams: Coming Out of Future Closets: Gender Identity and Homosexuality in the Legion (231) Matthew Elmslie: Diversity and Evolution in the Reboot Legion (248) Martín A. Pérez: Fashion from the Future, or “I Swear, Computo Forced Me To Wear This!” (267) Matthew Elmslie: Generational Theory and the Waid Threeboot (290) Paul Lytle: A Universe in Adolescence (301) Jae Bryson: The Racial Politics of the Legion (315) Barry Lyga: Afterword (326) About the Contributors (331) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |