Long Live the Legion

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #35 Oh no... we've reached that time again... when the cover doesn't match the story inside. It's always the first sign that the Legion is headed towards bad times... Also, if you told me that Light Lass wasn't on the original version of this cover and got Photoshopped in later, I'd totally believe you. It's The Quest for Cosmic Boy: E.R.G.onomics part 2 by writer Tony Bedard and artist Dennis Calero. For those of you who missed last issue, and this Bedard run, here's the quick recap. Supergirl was elected team leader but Brainiac 5 is running the show. Cosmic Boy disappeared (he actually joined a super-team 1,000 years in the future) so Brainy figured out three places where he may have gone. Atom Girl, Shadow Lass, and Timber Wolf headed to Lallor to try to find their former leader and discovered a plot to assassinate Lallor's president because he wants the planet to join the U.P. A super-powered assassin named E...

  Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #33 Okay seriously now - who's the Legionnaire at the bottom of the cover? According to the Grand Comics Database , it's Star Boy. Do his eyes glow? Is he bald? Do they think he's Cyborg now? Man, I'm confused. They also say that it's not Saturn Girl, it's Jeyra Entinn, the Wanderer who is a cold-blooded murderer and possible new Legionnaire. Yep, standards have dropped... everywhere... We've reached part two of The Quest for Cosmic Boy. Last issue, Sun Boy, Star Boy, and Mekt went to Winath to find Rokk. Tenzil Kem, a U.P. prosecutor, showed up as well to arrest Rokk. They went underground to find the missing people, Tenzil got buried under a pile of grain, and Mekt got zapped by some Winathians, including his parents, who are worshiping Validus, the god of lightning. This issue is brought to you by writer Tony Bedard and artist Dennis Calero. After the Dominator war, we're taking a step backwards and slowing t...

  Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #31 I'm always a sucker for covers that just show the team flying out towards the reader, but I have to wonder what happened to Supergirl - Barry Kitson has never drawn her like this before. It's the official beginning of the new era of Legion stories. Series creators Mark Waid and Kitson are gone and they've been replaced by frequent fill-in writer Tony Bedard and, for this issue only, artists Kevin Sharpe and Robin Riggs. We get an interesting change to the Roll Call page as well - it's back to Atom Girl so I guess that's her official name now... And Mekt is listed as a Legionnaire, which makes no sense. Oh well. We begin in another one of Brainiac 5's dreams - he's the hero, having saved the Earth from the Dominator threat and Bedard uses this sequence to provide tons of exposition about what the future is like and what they did to win the battle last issue. Is he assuming that no one has read the previous issues...

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #29 Two things stand out about the cover. First, the dead Dominators. I've mentioned before that I'm not sure if the Legion Code against killing still exists in this version and now I'm fairly certain it doesn't. I think it's kinda weird that Mark Waid took that off the table, especially considering how much he loves the Silver Age team. But the bigger thing that stands out is that we have different creators. Writer Tony Bedard, penciller Kevin Sharpe, and inkers Mark McKenna and Jack Purcell are working on the book, taking over mid-storyline. You may ask why? I'm asking why. Why have the main creative team drop the book for an issue right in the middle of a the big, multi-part story? I can understand the artist needing a month, but the writer? The answer may be this. This issue is cover dated June 2007. Do you know what other book is cover dated June 2007? I know I'd be pissed if I saw such a horrible drawing of Kara...

  Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #27 This is the first page of this book... it should be the cover:   The Dominion invasion has begun. Last issue, a big robot released something red into the air and Brainiac 5 let the Legion know that they were already defeated. Other stuff is going on but who cares... let's get into the action. This issue is brought to you by writer Mark Waid, penciller Barry Kitson, and inker Mick Gray. Three issues in a row - congrats! We begin on the Dominion Homeworld, where two of the leaders are happily providing exposition and bringing us up to speed. It was the A.I. Virus that they released in the red cloud last issue and all technology is now under their control. Everyone on Earth is panicking because there's no more food and the Dominators are confident they've already won the war. The one with the biggest disk on his head (so the leader) turns and we see that Sun Boy and his team are being held captive. The Dominators have scraped thei...