There are people who are generously coming online and telling me, “Hey, thanks for that 20 minutes I didn’t have to think about what the real world is giving me. I really needed a break so thank you.” Or, “I really needed some hopeful thoughts in my head.” That is something we can offer the audience that they’re not getting anywhere else, so I’m happy to. I’m so happy that the Legion’s legacy, going back to the earliest days, has always been about peace. This isn’t something new, this was the most hopeful world in comics.

Where does the Legion fit into the Modern DC Universe?

There have always been people that were like, “I’ve heard about the Legion but where do you start?” Well, you don’t have to worry about that because the way it lines up, the Legion has actually never appeared in the DC Universe. When you read their first appearance, that’s actually the first time Superman is meeting them or anybody. Their first appearance will be in Superman #14 and #15, so you’ll meet them along with the Superman family. The Legion will have a big offer and the offer will then generate where we’re headed which is a future where excitement awaits.

We’ve had a whole year and change to build something new, something magical, and, you know, because it’s such a buy in, we’re doing Legion Millennium. It’s a two issue series that is a DC artistic jam event where each chapter is done by one of the great artists working today. We came up with this interesting idea where there’s a character, right now, in today’s DC Universe who will discover, “I’m not aging. My powers, I’m not aging,” and from that discovery, which is scary and terrifying, she walks us through all the DC futures and histories that are coming, some of which people know very well, some of which we get to reintroduce. We’ll line them up in a way that they haven’t been lined up before and then this character will take all those experiences and all those futures, including the one we’re living in right now, and walk up right up to the Legion of Super-Heroes’ front door and start a new chapter for all of us.