Black Witch giunge a Sorcerer's World, da "Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds" #5. Disegni di G. Pérez

Riassunto delle puntate precedenti: libero dal ruolo di President & Publisher della DC Comics, Paul Levitz è tornato al vecchio mestiere di scrittore di fumetti. E, nello specifico, alla Legione dei Super-Eroi, comic che l’autore di Brooklyn, NY, portò ad una significativa notorietà per tutti gli anni Ottanta.

Dan DiDio, Leader Maximo della redazione DC Universe, commenta così a Newsarama il passaggio di consegne tra Geoff Johns, sceneggiatore uscente della collana legionaria, “Adventure Comics” (vol. III), e la scongelata vecchia gloria Levitz:

1) Lost_Daughter wrote: The Adventure Comics changeover. How did that happen? Was it planned? Will Legion be the stars? Will Levitz continue with Geoff’s plans?

Dan DiDio: The change was in the works already before Paul stepped into the mix. And the change started at the moment we decided Francis was going to be the artist on The Flash.

What we’re planning to do with The Flash ongoing series, we needed to get Francis and Geoff off the Adventure Comics series so they could concentrate on The Flash ongoing.

So we knew we had a change there. We just weren’t sure exactly where and when. And we were going back and forth on which issue it was because Geoff had a really wonderful Superboy story that he wanted to tell that, unfortunately, will have to be pushed to a later date.

But my goal now is to get those guys going on Flash as soon as possible. And then when all the changes started to occur, Paul was our only choice for the series. And to be quite frank with you, before even knowing everything that was taking place, Paul was the person we were thinking about approaching for the series as well, given his association with the Legion, given his association with Adventure Comics, and his love for the title, and his love for those characters. It only made sense for him to be the one to take this and move it to its next incarnation.

Newsarama: There’s no doubt that when you think of Paul, you think of Legion of Super-Heroes. But there are Conner Kent fans out there that are wondering – what’s going to happen to the Superboy piece of this comic?

DiDio: We’re going to see Conner’s, probably, gradual leave from that book. But that’s not to say Conner won’t be joining a team book soon, or appearing in another series of his own at some point.

C’era da aspettarselo: la posizione ufficiale di DiDio è che non ci troveremmo di fronte a una frettolosa inversione a “U”, ma al naturale evolversi di un progetto editoriale prestabilito. Hmm. (continua…)