Former President & Publisher of DC Comics Paul Levitz was announced to step down from his position and head back to the writer's chair upon DC's "restructuring" into DC Entertainment late last year. Fans rejoiced when they learned that Levitz would be taking over Adventure Comics, where he'd get to once again tackle the Legion of Super-Heroes, the characters featured in his most renowned work, the "Great Darkness Saga".
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Well fanboys, I can do you one better. DC announced today that not only would Levitz be handling Adventure, he'll be launching a brand new Legion of Super-Heroes monthly along with artist Yildiray Cinar, beginning this spring. With the announcement, DC released some stellar character sketches of Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy, along with a pencils only look at the cover for issue #1.
In an interview with IO9, Levitz said that his love of the characters stemmed way back to his childhood. "Legion was the first book that I really fell in love with as a kid, the first book I collected... My bound volumes still include a lot of my subscription copies with the damn crease in the middle. I used to make little Legion figures out of paper dolls and Creepy Crawler molds when I was really young, so it's very satisfying to a very small person within me."
As for where the new series fits in continuity-wise (I mean, it is a Legion series), Levitz said the series will take its cue from Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" from their run on Action Comics. "The first page of the first issue deals with Earth Man getting dealt with by the Science Police, and not necessarily gently, and it kinda goes running from there. I imagine I'll go back and explore things that happened in the inbetween on occasions, but I don't think those will be flashbacks. I think you'll pick up the story when the story is and you might learn things that happened that you didn't know about."
Levitz also mentions that Legion is scheduled for a May release date, whereas his run on Adventure will begin in June.
