It’s called Retroboot because Geoff Johns retroactively inserted his version of the team back into the original continuity just after Crisis on Infinite Earths before handing the team to their author from that period, Paul Levitz. However, there is a fourth reboot tucked into 2009 called “Retroboot” that kicks off with the Lightning Saga crossover. Characters are sometimes referred to as “New Earth” versions. This is known to LOSH fans as “Threeboot” era. Then, DC rebooted LOSH continuity prior to Infinite Crisis. LOSH’s first major inflection point comes with Zero Hour in 2004, which begins what fans refer to generically as “Reboot” continuity.

While they did have a slight pivot after Crisis in 1989 with “Five Years Later,” it was still within the same era of storytelling. Yet, the original LOSH) stories extend from the Silver Age through the Bronze Age and past Crisis on Infinite Earths. You can read and enjoy any LOSH story or series on its own, but to understand how certain stories rely on each other and where you can follow a specific group of LOSH characters, it makes sense to think in terms of reboots.įor many DC heroes, the first examples of this come with the Silver Age, or immediately after Crisis on Infinite Earths. Sometimes this happens right in the middle of series! LOSH is considered to be rebooted whenever their future continuity is radically changed such that not all new LOSH stories line up with prior ones.

LOSH fans do think about their heroes in terms of continuity reboots, but those do not line up DC’s publishing eras. We usually think of DC comics as arranged by their publishing era, like Silver, Bronze, Post-Crisis, or New 52, which also tend to come with a continuity reboot (or, at least, a light reshuffle). Think of it as a cross between the Teen Titans and the Green Lantern Corps. Last updated August 2022 with titles scheduled for release through December 2022.ĭC’s Legion of Super-Heroes (LOSH) are a far-future team assembled from the best and brightest young heroes from many different planets, each with their own unique powers and physiology. The definitive issue-by-issue collecting guide and trade reading order for Legion of Super-Heroes (LOSH), Legionnaires, & Legion Lost comic books in omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback collections. Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics.

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