Due to legal issues involving the estate of co-creator Jerry Siegel, who wrote some of the Legion's earliest comics stories, Clark Kent (Yuri Loewenthal) takes up the mantle of Superman when he travels to the 31st century with Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and, subbing for co-founder Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy. Apparently, they wanted him for comedy relief.
Anyway, the series lasted two seasons, but because Chumptoon Network wouldn't flip over any coin to corporate sibling WB for the rights to the series, reruns never aired there or on Boomerang. Today, DC Universe has the rights, making the show available for the first time since it signed off in 2008.
Here's the intro:
Today, DC is in no hurry to bring back the Legion, despite a crossover with their Batman '66 franchise and with Bugs Bunny a couple of years back. Hmmmm.
As you can see, the producers opted to make Brainiac 5 more of an artificial intelligence, as opposed to the more humanoid appearance he has in the books and on Supergirl. I guess they wanted all of the Legionnaires to be active in battle.....
Rating: B.
Today, DC is in no hurry to bring back the Legion, despite a crossover with their Batman '66 franchise and with Bugs Bunny a couple of years back. Hmmmm.
As you can see, the producers opted to make Brainiac 5 more of an artificial intelligence, as opposed to the more humanoid appearance he has in the books and on Supergirl. I guess they wanted all of the Legionnaires to be active in battle.....
Rating: B.
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Around the time of Legion's debut, I heard tell that the series was originally supposed to have been titled "Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes" with Kara Zor-El subbing for Kal. The series was said (at the time) to have been a direct follow-up to the JLU episode "Far from Home", which ends with Kara staying in the 31st century, but I have yet to find an official source confirming this, however, so it may have just been an internet rumor.
There were unconfirmed rumors to that effect back then, but apparently the creative personnel, including James Tucker, decided to go in a different direction, because at the time, Superman still had more name value, and the movie, "Superman Returns", with Brandon Routh, had been in theatres earlier that summer.
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