Long Live the Legion

    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...

Adventure Comics #8 or #511 We've now reached the Last Stand of New Krypton story. It works its way through the Superman titles and results in... something, I guess. I've never read this before, so this will be all new for me. Hope you enjoy my take and I hope I'm able to find all the separate issues. This cover makes me a little sad in a... what might have been... nostalgic sense. Artist Francis Manapul had a nice little run on the Threeboot Legion, made the book look really good, even when the stories weren't matching his work, and if only they could've gotten him back at this time, when he was firing on all cylinders, we might've seen more readers for the Legion. Speaking of readership, here's what Adventure Comics did post-Legion of 3 Worlds: Adventure Comics #1 - ranked 30th with 56,646 in sales Adventure Comics #2 - ranked 44th at 47,256 Adventure Comics #3 - ranked 40th at 44,404 Adventure Comics #4 - ranked 6th at 85,106 Why so high? This month, DC i...