Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc From: [a 905576] at [tiuk.ti.com] (David Pardoe, (0013 spif)) Subject: UKCAC: Zero Hour (possible spoilers) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 14:44:43 GMT The following is an except from an interview with K C Carlson that took place on Sunday afternoon at the UK Comic Art Convention. For the full interview (loads of Legion spoilers) see the next Omnicon. K: The big project I keep refering to is a cross-over project, the title of which is called Zero Hour. basically it came apart... it came together... it may come apart later :-) it came together under bizarre circumstances, because I came into DC working on the Legion and dying to make the Legion more popular and more visible at DC which is something that hasn't happened very much and the one thing that's always bothered me whenever we've done one of the major cross-over things like Legends or Millenium or Crisis on Infinite Earths or things like that. The Legion's always been kind of off in the background, I mean they've never been a real big part of that. So I said this is time to change that and I said I want to do next year's cross-over and I want the Legion books to be a very big part of it. At the same time, Dan Jurgens from the Superman family had submitted a proposal for a cross-over series dealing with time travel. So from two opposite directions we're coming at the project, and we've decided to work together and the name of it is Zero Hour and it involves time travel. It also involves the DC timeline, there'll be some changes therein, some of the status quo. We've been through some contnuity buffets in the Legion and you can imagine what some of the things may be happening, and hopefully they'll be straightened out for the final time. We're going to get it right this time. I tend to refer to some of the continuity implant things that were forced onto the Legion because of other books as bandages. Hopefully we feel that we're coming onto a structure that's healthy enough that we can take the bandages off and hopefully satisfy a lot of people who enjoy the past as well as looking ahead to the future. Zero Hour will be a 5 part limited series. It won't be an annual cross-over like our last couple. It will be issued weekly at the end of the summer of 94, pencilled and written by Dan Jurgens and it will affect most of the DC universe. We haven't worked out all of the plot details yet, but we're probably going to be seeing a shattering and re-ordering of the DC timeline, and trying to straighten out a few of the major continuity glitches of the DC universe that have been hovering around since the conclusions of Crisis on Infinite Earths. R: So is this going to explain the origins of the Legionnaires? K: Exactly. We will find the true genesis of the Legionnaires R: and Valor? K: Yes. R: Superboy? K: Yes. - David