Urban Sprawl in Comics Redux?

[dewline]

The latest version of Legion of Super-Heroes mentioned something interesting in passing in a recent issue written by Mark Waid: their version of 31st Century Metropolis runs across nearly the entire North American Atlantic seaboard.

Question: how chilling(or not) do you find the implications of a single city running all the way from Cape Breton to Key West?

Yours, whilst still wishing I'd gotten that Daily Planet Guide to the Legion Worlds project with West End Games past the outline stage,

Dwight

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Didn't the original Legion, at least under Levitz, also have a giant East Coast consuming single city of Metropolis?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Under Levitz and Giffen, they'd confined their 30th-Century Metropolis to the general neighbourhood of Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York State from the east end of Long Island to as far up as the nearest of the Catskills(I think), and the northern half of New Jersey. There's a map that saw print in the comic itself somewhen in the mid-1980's.

Side Note: That map is part of what I've long based my personal assumptions re: 20th and 21st-Century Metropolis' location. It had to be located somewhere in that region, regardless of previous materials referring to Delaware.