Long Live the Legion

  Superman #699 Once again, we recap! Lex Luthor has stolen one of the bottled cities. Supergirl, with the help of Brainiac 5, destroyed Brainiac's ship's core so I guess it doesn't have any power. As happy as I will be when this story is over, the thing I will enjoy the most is not having to type out "Brainiac" over and over and over again. General Zod leads a group of Kryptonians (the Brainiac Revenge Squad) through Brainiac's ship to stop him and get revenge for Kandor being attacked and shrunk... again... The Legion stand around and do a whole lot of nothing. Superboy is trapped inside Kandor. Mon-El is hooked up to some machine and dreaming of being back in the Phantom Zone (okay, more like a nightmare). We've reached part 8 of this saga and it's brought to you by writer James Robinson and artist Bernard Chang. We begin with something I never thought I'd see - Superman and Zod fighting side-by-side against a bunch of drones. The entire Brainia...

    Adventure Comics #10 or 513 Let's recap, as we always do. Brainiac has bottled Kandor again. The Kryptonians within were bathed in red sun energy and have lost their powers. General Zod, the leader of the Kryptonian defences, is happy that happened and seems to think they're ready to defeat Brainiac. Superman, after futilely attacking Brainiac's ship, was blasted with red sun energy and is falling through space towards New Krypton. Mon-El was also defeated and teleported somewhere.  Brainiac 5 has travelled back in time to save Superman's life to protect the future. The Legion, Superboy, and Supergirl spend a lot of time standing around and explaining things when they're trying to save all the bottled cities on Brainiac's ship to make sure they get to their correct planets to ensure the United Planets develops the way it should. Oh, and to save New Krypton. Tellus wants to use his telepathic powers, combined with the telepathic powers of all the Lanothians (...

Last Stand of New Krypton #2 Yes, a *George Perez* cover! Gotta love these pleasant surprises! Let's do a bit of a recap, shall we? Superman and Mon-El face off against Luthor, Brainiac, and a bunch of Brainiac drones while they try to save a bunch of bottled cities that contain many different alien races. The Legion Espionage Squad (in name only) are also trying to save these bottled cities and return them to their home planets to ensure that the 31st Century develops they way it's supposed to. They're trying to figure out how to get into Brainiac's ship... even though Tellus shared that info already and should know. Superboy and Supergirl seem to be part of this as well. Oh, and Tellus is also going to combine powers with the Lanothians (a telepathic alien race living in a bottle) to make every Kryptonian love each other and stop fighting amongst their guild or class divisions. So no free will, right? Brainiac 5 has come back through time by himself to prevent Brainia...

Superman #698 We're hip deep in this big story, so let's do a quick recap: Mon-El has flown to Brainiac's spaceship to rescue Superman, who was captured by Brainiac and Luthor (not sure how that happened, they just showed an unconscious Supes). The Legion has been released from custody by Alura, Supergirl's mom, and have taken off, heading to the same ship, alongside Superboy. General Zod and Ursa run New Krypton's defences and want to do something they know the Kryptonian council won't like. Brainiac has sent thousands of robots, armed with red sun energy, to kill as many Kryptonians as possible. Supergirl has been fighting to stop them but it looks like the city is being overrun.  We've reached chapter 34 of the Superman books in 2010 - this one is written by James Robinson with art by Javier Pina & Bernard Chang. Zod and Ursa provide the recap this issue. It's so nice when they stand in dramatic poses and provide the exposition so we know what...

Action Comics #887   Welcome back to the second part of my continued look at the Last Stand of New Krypton. What did we learn last week? There were over 80 stories that came before this, so I'm going into this huge crossover with a ton of questions. New Krypton is a planetoid on the other side of Sol where the citizens of Kandor now live. Brainiac and Luthor have teamed up and Brainiac's ship is flying over New Krypton while his robots are killing Kryptonians with red sun energy. General Zod is heading the New Krypton defences and has some huge new plan that he's gotten Supergirl's mother, Alura and also the leader of the planetoid, to sign off on with a promise she won't do anything to stop him. And the most important characters for me, the Legion of Super-Heroes, have been arrested by Zod (along with Superboy) and taken into custody. They were trying to convince them to not destroy Brainiac's ship because it contains bottle cities of worlds that need to be bro...