If you enjoyed any of the Civil War parodies then you’ll love the following news.  Chris Bird, the guy that did all the Civil War parody comics has announced that he wants DC to make him the next writer for Legion of Super-Heroes.

As DC Comics has not yet announced a new writer for Legion of Super-Heroes, I feel the time is ripe for a somewhat satirical internet campaign self-promotional effort to get myself a proper creative-creating type of a job.

Thus, my new Internet effort! Every day this month (well, except yesterday, but who starts these things on a Sunday, I ask you) is a celebration! Namely, the “Christopher Bird Should Write The Legion” celebration. In addition to my regular and thoroughly glorious posting schedule, I will be adding a daily graphic to make sure everybody understands how awesome a Legion comic written by moi would be. I furthermore encourage all of you out there in Internet-land to link back to this post (which I’ll be updating with links to the subsequent reasons as I post them) so that Googling “new writer Legion of Super-Heroes” sends people here! And also to sign the petition that each image will link to!

If you folks do all of that, then DC Comics will have no choice but to… well, do whatever they want, actually, but so what. I’m gonna have me some fun with this. Some of my reasons will be slightly silly, some of them are serious ideas I’d actually like to write in the comic, but they’re all - and I guarantee this - stuff about the Legion that is awesome to me. So at least in that, this campaign is one hundred percent honest!

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His reasoning:

1.) Although Mark Waid and Barry Kitson’s output on Legion of Super-Heroes has been workmanlike, the critical reception has been, at best, mixed, and any metaphorical description of the sales on Legion would probably and unfortunately have to involve cliff divers.

2.) When one of the most reliable and steadfast creative teams in comics - one with a proven track record for producing popular and high-selling books - fails to hit it out of the park, it is officially time to start throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks.

3.) Christopher Bird would, we think, probably write a reasonably awesome Legion comic.

3a.) He also qualifies as “shit”, in the previous metaphor re: throwing.

3b.) He may also owe some of us money, and being paid to write comics would no doubt mean we’d see that faster.

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Good stuff. I love the internet.