This is a dream come true. The 5YL storyline was the start of my US comic book collection, the team had grown adult just like I had (LSH hadn't been published in Germany since 1984). It was a joy to unravel the puzzle, loved the 9 panel grid and the tons of information you could get out of one single issue. Loved that this was rather a SciFi dystopia than a regular superhero story. The overall storyline is phenomenal, was way ahead of its time and basically, with this volume you have the bulk of the 5YL storyline - a second storyline is not really needed. So glad you showcased this treasure, I got it the day it came out even though I have all the single issues. ❤️🙏👍

Five Years Later had a love/hate relationship even with old school Legion fans. I personally think it is the second best era after Levtiz original long Legion run. Got my copy ordered and on its way. Great overview, Omar.

In the old days part of the fun of comics was not knowing what was going on until a few issues when everything would click.

The constant 9 panel grid would actually drive me crazy reading this.

My copy is in transit and will be here tomorrow. I watch the video because it was 100% a blind buy and I don’t know a single thing about it. Keep up the great work Omar.

Wonderful review Uncanny Omar! The key with the LSH was that they were created at a time of optimism in America shortly after WW2 and all of the great space television serials (Lost in Space, Outer Limits, etc). The Shooter-Curt Swan era of Adventure Comics had some of the greatest stories including the Death of Ferro Lad. Then when they took over Superboy's own comic you had great art by Mike Grill and by Dave Cockrum - each had their own distinctive runs - this took place around the time of Paul Levitz's first run which included an amazing one-shot story written & illustrated by Jim Starlin when the comic was double-sized and featured Ultra Boy as the main character for that issue - yes Steve Ditko then was the artist for some time but that was during a period when his artistic talents began to fade a bit, but then Levitz returned with Pat Broderick (remember Marvel's Micronauts?) and when Broderick left, we got the famed Levitz/Giffen/Mahlsted run which gave us the Great Darkness Saga and a creative team equal in some respects to the Claremont/Byrne/Austin triumvirate. Great stories from these creators followed and then as you said, there was a hiatus and then the 5 Years Later period which was spectacular - at this point Giffen heavily influenced by a South American artist had changed his style (first seen in his fabulous Dr. Fate 4-issue mini-series co-plotted by writer JM DeMatteis) and adopted the Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons Watchmen 9-panel/page format (which had been originally pioneered by Steve Ditko in the Dr Strange run he did back in the 1960s in the pages of Strange Tales). Then there were no great Legion stories UNTIL the amazing Legion Lost run by Abett/Lanning and then the Legion Annual from five or six years ago by Levitz/Giffen featuring the Emerald Empress. Bendis is currently writing the Legion but I have no idea if its any good. Sorry for the long comment.

Legion of Super-Heroes !! YEAHH!! Cant wait to have my 5YL Omnibus! I Really hope they sell well enough for us to FINALLY get Legion of Super-Heroes Bronze Age Omnibus!!

Beautiful design on this book. I'm getting it just because of that And because LoSH is awesome

I bought this off the rack back in the day. It’s one of my favorite comic runs ever. Oddly enough, I wasn’t a huge legion fan. Basically my favorite legionnaires either were dead, radically changed, or missing. I think 80% of the Easter eggs planted went right over my head. Aside from Cosmic Boy and Mon El, they might have been all new characters. But...the book is soooo GOOD it didn’t even matter. I had to read the letters pages just trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s super dense and actually worked on one issue a month. I LOVED this, and hate that it doesn’t get the love it deserves. Plus, I think Giffen draws some SEXY women.

Thank you for this Omar!! Was looking forward to this overview all week. I’ve heard nothing but great things about this run, and am seriously considering buying this Omni or Thor by Walter Simonson next. Your videos have honestly made this quarantine super bearable, and you have helped me get back into comics dude. Keep up the great work! So happy I discovered your channel!

Crazy, I was literally just thinking “when is this review coming”

Thanks Omar for the review! Beautiful Book! Long Live the Legion!

The biggest problem with Legion of superheroes continuity is nothing to do with the actual "LEGION". It's due to DC rebooting their mainstream continuity so often, so they feel they have to retcon the whole LSH history. They could've just left it alone and kept it as "A Possible Future". Thanks for this.

Perhaps Omar has given me a reason to pick this omnibus up. Great review as always my dude Omar. That spine is 🔥.

I guess I’ll read the character bios before going into the rest of the book.

Thanks for this spoiler free review!

Hype to get my copy. The Volume 1 and “first half of the epic” on the back are such a tease. Especially since no one expected them to go further since this is all of the Giffen run. Hope they follow it up. Design looks great, especially those starry boards.

X-men: Thousands of characters in a decades long superhero soap opera with multiple timelines and impossible to explain continuity Legion: HOLD MY BEERS!

I'm a big fan of the Legion of Superheroes, I'll have to get this omnibus it looks great!

I really liked Shooter's 2nd run on Legion can't wait to see that review someday. Thanks for the show.

Brilliant Omnibus, nice extras, fgreat story! That cover is such an odd choice though

Lol this is great video. “You have to do a lot of work” haha I can’t wait!

I love the design of the cover under the dust-jacket , looks awesome.

Ordered this yesterday. Long Live the Legion!!

Commenting before watching! Better be good I already ordered! Spine sold me

I have every LOSH to date except this run. Didn't care for it. Thanks for the review. Been on the fence with this one.

Great video! ; Looking forward to the delivery from dcbs this week; looks to be a good re-read

Im a big fan of LSH and I remember reading these stories when they came out. I had been reading the Legion since 1975. It sure was a plesant surprise they decided to make this omnibus

2 years later, lol, I'm finally starting to read this. It is NOT a quick read (for me anyways) but enjoying it. Been watching several reviews, one from Waid himself, and agree 100%, this was ahead of its time. And hats off to Lars btw for picking this one (or was it vol 2) as his pick for best of 2022 in your content creators year end video!

Time to give us an overview of the volume 2 omnibus!!

That is a thing of beauty

Just ordered mine today. You convinced me with this overview. Thanks

Cool. Thanks a lot Omar. I will defiantly take a look of those books in that order. Thanks again!

I really like the idea of being dropped into the middle of a story

Thanks for this, Omar! My copy is still in transit (or waiting to be boxed!) by IST. I agree that the book is dense, but you are getting more excellent story for your comics buying buck. I really like the nine panel grid and the art by Keith Giffen. You call the nine panel grid "traditional" but I have a hard time thinking of anyone else that used it other than Dave Gibbons on The Watchmen. (Bernie Krigstein and Jim Steranko used nine (or more) panels occasionally.) (I know I'm nitpicking!) This omnibus (and the recent Spectre and Green Arrow omniboo) restores some of my faith in DC Comics, as these require more effort than the Dini Batman or Morrison Batman omniboo. ( Of course, these type of books are routinely being issued by Marvel!) Hopefully, the good sales will encourage DC to continue these efforts.

That's just weird about the retain re superboy. The art looks great, though. Thank's for the review, Omar.

I’m one of those who HATED this run. I was a huge fan before this and for me the Legion never recovered from the five years later era.

I have been waiting for this review. This is my favorite Legion run, but I’m so on the fence about this format. I was more excited about the deluxe HC that was solicited initially, but it was cancelled and about a year later I find out about this honker. I have a few omnibus collections, but some are too cumbersome and heavy, and this one looks no different. Also not crazy about the price tag. And I think the cover to issue 12 would have been better for this volume and then gone with issue 25 for volume two. Actually issue 41 would be a great cover for volume two.

I'm pleased this epic story has been released in the Omnibus format. Most of what you stated is quite true, in that it is a jarring take on the former "clean-cut" team from the future. I read and have collected all of the issues in the book, but this is a great format to have them all without having to open up the Mylar bagged & boarded individual issues whenever I might wish to read them. I've been a fan of the LSH since the '60s and yes, I'm one of those Silver Age fans who love this stuff. I indeed would like to buy a future Volume 2 compiling the runs of both the Legion and the Legionnaires. I did enjoy your video and I reminisced as you went along. I didn't enjoy the Legion Lost series, though I started buying it at the time of release until I couldn't stomach the art anymore as it went on. You may think this series was dark but it's nothing unlike the darkness of Legion Lost. My opinion I get it, as there are many fans fo the series. The LSH has been rebooted so many times that there are versions that many might hold dear; this series up until after Zero Hour ended was it for me.

This is a beautiful book. I've only ever read The Great Darkness Saga as far as LoSH goes, maybe I ought to use this to get into it. I just keep piling up more and more stuff I need to get, no matter how much I buy and read it's like I'm not even scratching the mountain of things waiting for me.

They should have included the SOURCEBOOK, which adds further detail to the storyline and clearly explains the whole saga to those who found it confusing. Instead of the Who's Who pages or the Timber Wolf series.

It wasn't until the 1977 JLA/JSA/ Legion team up that I became a fan of the Legion.

definitely would love reading order. I remember the legion getting trapped in time during theTeen Titans by Geoff Johns. Would love to find out more!

Great review. I was getting ready to say he doesnt know the history he is just winging it. But you did the work and gave a great review. I collect legion since the 1970;s. Mike Grelll ,Dave Cockrum, Jim Starlin Giffen. It hurst me that after all the lore and history Superboy was erased. However when this series started they address that issue with Moen-el which is epic so they did it justice. Giffen is great but the writing of the Bierbaums are fantasic layered with depth. The reimagined charters are great and subtle. They were way ahed of their time Profem ! Rise and fall of Sun Boy SWG batch battle for planet earth. This is the best legion version ever. Like i said iam a collector from the 1970's and heave read most if not all books from 50's 60's 70's and 80's. Legion was one of the first to give prestige printer Baxter version. I highly recommend this. The writing like you said makes you work for it but it is so rich the more you read the more you appreciate it. Like a i said great review ad Long Live the Legion.

Checking on line now to buy

Epic. I am so glad tgo have this and be re reading this story

Really looking forward to my copy even if I own the entire run in floppies. Still think featuring the Legionnaires on the cover is an interesting choice.

I really liked this run. I love Giffen's art on this. My only complaints are that too many new characters were introduced such as Celeste Rockfish, Kono, Kent Shakespeare, and Devlin O'Ryan (Laurel Gand was cool). I also didn't like how some of the original Legionnaires were transformed too much like Timber Wolf, Dawnstar, Cosmic Boy, Shrinking Violet. Valor and Glorith rocked!!! I think the cover to this omnibus should've featured Giffen's artwork.

omar this was an excellent overview, love to hear your thoughts and background info about the book

Literally the only Legion I’ve ever read is the recent BMB run. And while I did enjoy it, I’m not sure I’m willing to put in the insane amount of time necessary to fully grasp even one Legion story. Like, I know they’re good. I’d like to read the Great Darkness Saga. But also that’s like fifty hours of catchup for one story I might not even like.

I would love to pick this up, but I've already got so many characters I'm following, I feel like if I add the Legion, it's a HUGE rabbit hole to go down.

I actually love the art you showed off and I enjoy the 9 panel grid because its a nice break from the norm. I may wait on this one though. It's a heavy investment and knowing the previous and future renditions of this team are retconned to be different forces me to reevaluate if it's worthy of my time right now. I'm still intrigued though. I really appreciate your overview. I am majorly on the fence on this and feel better now not being totally upset with FOMO.

I have every issues of this run and Legionnnaires. I did the same as you back in the day. I ended up buying a lot of the ignites run. Unfortunately, I got rid of those a while back, but everything from this storyline on up, I kept. It’s great this has been collected. While it is true that people all be confused by some stuff, it really kicks into high gear once issue five happens. After Mon-El takes care of stuff in #4, it gets better. That was a boring issue, but it takes care of the Superboy thing. BTW, Superboy was still in Legion continuity after Crisis.

Sold. Fucking gorgeous book.

DC is best when it's making you work for it:) Sold!

I have said forever that the "Five Years Latter..." Legion was Vertigo before Vertigo was a thing. This series would have fit in perfect with books like Morrison' Doom Patrol.

Well you got me interested in this one.

I have this coming in from Cheap Graphic Novels. Hoping for Volume 2 of this and the Green Arrow Long Bow Saga omnibus

This run was, if nothing else, daring. But take them out of costume and have them drawn by an artist whose style made it difficult to differentiate which Legion member was which and that made it hard to follow. Really hard.

Great overview, Omar (as usual). I hope you can verify if DC will soon reprint The Great Darkness Saga? I know they're coming up with "Before the Darkness" HC, so I assume DC will eventually do The Great Darkness Saga reprint. Am I right?

This is one of my most anticipated books of the year. I was going to make custom bind. I really hope we get a volume 2 and an omnibus or HC of the Baxter run. I have the Baxter run issues and will make a custom if DC doesn’t. Got my copy last week it I like seeing what your take was. I’m surprised you didn’t mention Ferro lad and how his death is must read LOL

Sooooo. Any chance this goes back into print. I decided to wait for a price drop to get it sub $100. The darn book is $500+ now for some reason.

I had a dream about this book. Nothing would be strange, if not the fact, that this dream was 2 years ago.

Excellent overview as always. Maybe I will try this LSH Omnibus. So, this storyline is after the great darkness saga? I would like an omnibus or OHC of this previously era.

would we be better off reading the back (who's who) before we read the start of this?

I really want to get this omnibus but i do wish DC had fully collected the previous volume including the magic war before getting this out.

Got a lot of wiki reading to do while I wait for the book lol, was on the fence but got it on Amazon for 50% off!

Great review Omar, I reading now, and wow! Is a great history, a few heavy, but you get used to it. Do you know the date of the Launch for Volume 2? And also, do you know if DC has some interest in launch Omnibus for the Paul Levizt era?

Cowabunga fam 🤙🤙🤙

Batman by Snyder omnibus 2 please DC!

I've never really been interested in the Legion, mainly because of the continuity and all the characters. I did buy Bendis' first issue since it came with a free ring. You got me really interested in this series though, both with the premise and the art. It seems to be a sort of retro style, but with slightly more modern detail/refinement. The colors popped out at me too, since they look quite nice. Not sure I'll buy it with the huge price tag (I also have like four omnibuses to work through, right now).

Is this Omnibus out of print? I only see it at 1 place online and it's at full cover price so I am wondering if this omnibus will have a reprint in 2022 or if it's still possible to get it for cheap?

Been looking forward to this one. Blind buy for me. Completely unfamiliar with the Legion from this era. Is it wrong I'm watching this at work? Let's not dwell on that one :)

Hey Omar! Love videos and all the other ones you do. I always watch your reviews before I buy or check out a book at the library or hoopla. But any way I have a random question for you. My bday is coming up and I’m stuck on which omnibus I should get. It’s between Batman 66 Punisher max by Garth ennis vol 1 Star Wars by Jason Aaron vol 1 Venomnibus vol 1/2 Do you have any suggestions on which one I should get out of those or now any better ones? Your options would be appreciated. Thanks man. Love your vids and keep it up!

I thought the 5 years later story finished in 39, as the legionnaires were introduced and the two series became c.onnected

This omnibus is Tom King’s wet dream

I kinda wanna buy this, but i really wanted to read the levitz stories that came before first.

I was just about to be buy this, because I'd read some other Legion stories later on, but this 9 panel thing just killed it. I'm sure the story's somewhere from good to great, but I read comics for visuals more so than the story. I consider a good to great story a bonus to the art. I'd need a steeper discount to buy this book and I don't like buying used, so count me out for now. Thanks for the review.

That spine is gonna pop on any bookshelf! Can't wait to add it to my collection

Is this your own copy or DC sent one for review? I'm wondering if you were able to find a stable contact there

I haven't read any LoS comics but I've seen them in other mediums a couple of times. I've always thought they were the most incompetent group ever. They get their asses kicked by everyone! Whenever I see them, I actually felt bad and scared for them 😅

Keith giffen is a beast period. I love dc they where so great at this time . Dc will make it back they got some great young talent. Rumors don't mean anything. Att knows they are sitting on something special.

This is the nerdiest omni I've seen possibly ever.

Ah yes the Five year dive into the grim and gritty universe that killed the franchise, I remember it with all the distaste it deserves.

I hope DC fixes the poor construction of their omnis, mainly the binding, very small eye, and gutter loss, making it hard to read and enjoy the art. Change printers if you have to, or stop at 1000 pages.

What is best starting point for knowing LoS? Legion of Super-Heroes is confusing as balls. I know The Legion of Super-Heroes has some very good stories, but i am having a hard time to figure out how to get into. thanks!

Great overview. The panels close to the gutter seem a little difficult to read. Is it just my impression ?

Any news regarding the deluxe editions of blade of the immortal deluxe Edition?

Can i do research from info pages at the back of this or is there major spoilers :D

So would this be a good place for someone new to the legion to start

I really liked this run. However, I wasn't going to pay $150 for an omnibus. DC is hit or miss with their omnibus quality and I didn't want to take a chance on it.

Would anyone recommend 5 Years Later to someone who knows next to nothing about Legion of Superheroes? (i.e. me) 🤔🤔🤔

Keith Giffen changed his art style to copy a French artist. Caught some shit over stealing the style. His art sucks now. During the Great Darkness Saga he was top tier and on point. No idea why he so drastically changed to a lesser style.

Legion of Superheroes were never my cup of tea. The omnibus looks really great tho 👌

I really dislike Giffen’s style of drawing. I also disliked comics in general during this time period because this style was prevalent and the colors seemed muted and simplistic. 80’s-90’s comics feel dated to me as well because the clothing and hair styles mirrored the times and it feels dated in a way that comics from the 60’s-70’s oddly don’t.

Hmmm not for me...

You should never ink yourself...

I gotta say...I normally buy into Omar’s reviews....but man, I hate this Omni. The art-work and art direction is just terrible. The 9 panel grid is bad enough, but to often the artist has the focus of the panel off-screen. It’s hard to follow the flow. I don’t think I have the inner strength to finish this one.

This is a terrible binding for a book this size.