The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1918: Legionnaires #12, March 1994

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I decided while I was looking for publishers from throughout the alphabet that I hadn't read any DC comics for far too long, and that I hadn't read any of my Legion of Superheroes stuff that's in the collection. So as a brief break from the indies, we'll have a look at some LOSH titles.

The most significant thing about this comic is that it came out around the same time I met my wife of the last 25 years. I hadn't realized that until just now, and it really gives a nice weight of time to the comic. A lot of the time I can't really reconcile, or I don't really reconcile, the distance in time a comic is separated from me when I read it. If I read a comic from the 50s, I have no context for the age of the piece, really. Even with comics from the 80s, the earlier parts of that decade are blurred with youth. But I definitely know where I was in early 1994, and what was happening in my life (and oh my gods, I was so tired of being in university at the time). So that's interesting.

It's also Chris Sprouse, who will forever have a place in my heart as the greatest Supreme artist of all time. Aside from his work on the second greatest Superman story ever, I'm always surprised to see Mr. Sprouse's work show up in early Image titles - his is not a stereotypically Image look. I think that's what I really appreciate about his art, though - he manages to convey both the human and the superhuman in his characters. They're definitely stylized characters, presenting the usual over-inflated physicality of the superhero, but at the same time their builds aren't outside of the realm of possibility for the realm within which they exist.

If that makes any sense.

More Legion to follow for the next few days.

Further Reading and Related Posts

A few other things I've written about Chris Sprouse's work.

And the scant posts I've written about the Legion, which will multiply this week!