DC Nation del 2/12/2009
Mentre sul web esplodeva la notizia di un ritorno en masse della Legione, previsto per marzo (ulteriori informazioni a questo link), la DC Comics apriva anche sul fronte cartaceo una gradita finestra sulla Metropolis del 31esimo secolo.
L’ultima pagina degli albi DC usciti negli States questa settimana, infatti, riporta nella rubrica “DC Nation” un breve articolo di Paul Levitz, futuro regista titolare di “Adventure Comics” (vol. III). L’ex President & Publisher, restituito al ruolo di sceneggiatore dopo lunghi anni da manager, confessa l’emozione di tornare al lavoro alle redini della Legione.
L’articolo, pubblicato anche sul sito ufficiale dell’editore newyorkese a questo link, è corredato da una maestosa immagine della “Great Darkness Saga”, indimenticabile storyline del 1982 con la quale Levitz si consacrò come supremo scriba legionario.
DC Nation: It’s like attending a reunion…
December 2, 2009…years after you last saw your home town and friends. They’re all familiar, but with a few odd touches…some of the relationships have shifted around, some of the gang don’t quite sound the same, and good lord, the haircuts and the outfits! Except that you’ve been elected to report on everyone for the special reunion website, and you have to figure out what’s happened in their lives. Got the moment captured? That’s what I’m feeling like, coming back to the Legion.
Except that I get to exercise my super-powers as writer, and start screwing up their lives and reality all over again. I’m figuring to start slowly, by destroying a Legionnaire’s home world in “The Scream Heard ‘Round the Universe,” and after I get warmed up, who knows what kind of havoc is possible? Seriously, half the fun of writing the Legion is the ridiculously large cast of characters you can put through their paces—killing them, marrying them, starting adulterous affairs, and all variety of human joys and tragedies. It’s part of what I loved about the book when I was a reader (from the death and resurrection of Lightning Lad on), and even more when I got control over the characters. Then you have the cosmic scope of the adventures (Keith still hasn’t forgiven me for the art direction “the entire population of the planet Daxam rises as one into space” and asking him to do it in a one-fifth page panel.)
Brian Cunningham’s starting to get a nervous twitch when I walk past his office, afraid that I’m poking my head in with another dumb question (how did Quislet get back?) or evil plot to foist on my old favorites. But Dan gets revenge for the whole editorial department—reaching across the hall, saying can you do a DC Nation on coming back to the Legion…it’s not due for a whole 20 minutes? If it’s 22 minutes, have I blown my first deadline back as a writer, Dan?
-Paul Levitz
Che entusiasmo! Ancora una volta, bentornato al vecchio leone del word processor.
Però, ehm, Paul, spero che quella tua frase sul pianeta da distruggere fosse davvero una battuta, perchè negli ultimi anni questo espdiente è già stato sfruttato da cani e porci (in primis Mark Waid, nel suo sfortunato “volume V”). Vabbè che sei stato lontano a lungo lontano dal fronte, però…!
Tags: Adventure Comics (vol.III), Brian Cunningham, DC Nation, Great Darkness Saga, Keith Giffen, Legion of Super-Heroes (vol.II), Mark Waid, Paul Levitz