Teenagers From the Future!

[eliyes]

So, a book arrived in the mail this morning. It's not mine -- it's for my roomie, who isn't here and gave me advance permission to open the package.

It's a book of essays about the Legion of Superheroes. Or, really, the Legions -- all of them so far.

Teenagers From the Future: essays on the Legion of Superheroes

Just reading the foreword has me all excited. The Table of Contents has me bouncing with glee like Chuck Taine. Here's just sample of some of the essay titles I figure people on my f-list might be intrigued by:

Liberating the Future: Women in the Early Legion

Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Giffen's Legion

Coming Out of Future Closets: Gender Identity and Homosexuality in the Legion

Generational Theory and the Waid Threeboot

The Racial Politics of the Legion

There are eighteen essays, plus foreword, introduction, and afterword. I am really looking forward to reading through this. :D

Comments

[kalloway]

Sounds fascinating (and I have no clue, seriously, about superheroes)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I hope it will be! :3

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

:o

You must give us a review, sir. :D

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I shall! :D I figure I'll be reading this at work (essays are much better to pick up and put down than a novel) and so I should definitely be done by the end of the weekend.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

So far, so awesome!

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

Is this the one with Emphatic Lad on the cover? That looked really intriguing. *grabby hands*

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yes it is! And yes, it is. :D