At ComicBook.com, DC have announced “Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium,” a monthly two-issue comic that will lead into a new Legion ongoing by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Ryan Sook. “Millennium,” which will be written by Bendis with art by several big names like Jim Lee, Jim Cheung, Nicola Scott, and Dustin Nguyen, will follow “a familiar face to DC fans who finds herself suddenly immortal,” as she lives through the next one thousand years of the DC Universe before the founding of the Legion.
In an interview, Bendis said that “for people who have never read Legion before, or have only heard about it (usually in very positive tones), it’s up to us to invite them to the 31st century. It’s a buy-in, right? You’re coming to a new part of the DC Universe, so we want to invite you.” He conceived the story as a means to have the reader genuinely walk with a character from the present day DCU, through the various disparate futures seen in other comics, to the Legion’s 31st century time and place.
“This is what ‘Millennium’ is,” he said, “every chapter is by a different artist, some of the greatest artists working in comics today. Each I handpicked, or [the artists] handpicked, the future they wanted to do. And a character is walking literally from today to the Legion’s front door, connecting everything from Kirby’s ‘Kamandi,’ to Dan [Jurgens]’s ‘Booster Gold’ to ‘Batman Beyond’ and ‘Tommy Tomorrow.’ All of it, it gets threaded together in a very exciting timeline. If that seems like a load of work and research, absolutely.”
Among the characters featured in the first issue, due out September, are a near-future version of Supergirl, drawn by Jim Lee; Batman Beyond, as drawn by Dustin Nguyen; Kamandi, by Andrea Sorrentino; and Tommy Tomorrow, illustrated by André Lima Araújo. Issue #2 will include Booster Gold by Nicola Scott; OMAC by Jim Cheung; an “off-world” chapter by Jeff Dekal; and finally Sook’s take the Legion of Super-Heroes.
In the meantime, head on over to ComicBook.com for much more from Bendis, early artwork from “Millennium,” and Sook’s concept art of the Legion – including Saturn Girl, who was last seen stranded in the present in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s “Doomsday Clock.”
