It's Thanksgiving week, and one of the things I'm thankful for recently was the opportunity to have some questions answered via email by former Legion writer,
Tom Peyer!
Tom began writing the Legion in 1994 at the dawn of the post-Zero Hour reboot, and was one of the architects of a new future and helped develop a new vision for the 30th century. Please check out the Q & A below, in which Tom talks a little about his time on the Legion.
Also, be sure to check out Tom on
Twitter, and his latest work, co-writing (along w/ Mark Waid) the fantastic
Captain Kid, published by
Aftershock Comics.
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How did you come to write the Legion/Legionnaires? You were working on REBELS at the time, correct? Were you always a Legion fan?
I was a kid in the Silver Age, so I'd read a million Legion stories. But
part of me held it against the Legion that their series replaced "Tales
of the Bizarro World" in the back of Adventure Comics. That "Bizarro
World" was the far superior series should have been obvious to
everyone--but people are fools. They refuse to see. Many years later,
in writing the Legion, I was finally able to make my peace with them.
Bringing me aboard was Mark Waid's idea; it was the start of a writing
collaboration that continues to this day with
Captain Kid.
Was
the idea of a fresh start for the Legion appealing? Any regret not
working on versions of the Legion characters you may have read &
enjoyed in the past?
Like I said, I was a Silver Age kid. To me, those are the real comics
and most of what came after is karaoke. I would have enjoyed calling
the Legionnaires by their 60s code names--This Lass and That Lad. The
rocket clubhouse, Superboy, Proty--I missed all of it.
