Long Live the Legion

Legion of Super-Heroes (vol 7) #9 If you haven't yet, I urge you to go down to your local comic shop and place an order for Legion of Super-Heroes #1. You've got until August 10th to get that pre-order in. We want to do everything we can do to send a simple message to both the comic shops and DC Comics - we want a monthly Legion comic! Anyway, last issue of LSH was kind of a placeholder. Cosmic Boy and Night Girl look like they're back together and, more importantly, someone's trying to put the Fatal Five back together! "Capture" is written by Paul Levitz with art by Francis Portela. In Metropolis University, Harmonia, Brainiac 5, and Circadia Senius are discussing whether time travel is possible or not. Brainy refuses to believe that it's been shut down and is certain they can get to the past. Dream Girl has shown up just to let us know that she foresaw something important happening there today... she couldn't have called? A black circle opens up behi...

Legion of Super-Heroes (vol 7) #8 First, before we do anything else, please check out this public service announcement: https://youtube.com/shorts/fga8wL-f0H8 With that out of the way, let's get started! We just wrapped up the Dragonwing story which was a little anticlimactic as best and disappointing at worst. We also learned that Sun Boy is powerful enough to burn away an entire Sea of Fire. Let's see where we go from there. This issue, titled "1 of 5," (I wonder if that's where Josh Williamson got the idea for the new version of Brainiac 5) is written by Paul Levitz with art by Steve Lightle. I always love it when Lightle comes back to the Legion, even if it's never for long enough. We begin in a medi-center on the planet Zardon, where a cat-looking woman is threatening a doctor. She wants to find something and the Doc just won't share the information. A big Venom-looking creature kills another staff member and they hope that's enough to get the doc...

Legion of Super-Heroes (vol 7) #7 I really have only one question about the cover. Since when did a Legionnaire wear their Flight Ring on their middle finger? Anyway, welcome back after my week vacation. I have a vague memory of what happened in the issues I read before I left, so let's hope things make sense. If I remember correctly, we're in China and Dragonwing is facing off against Phoenix, who is her sister's criminal boss. Chameleon Boy is also there, as well as a dog. Elsewhere in China, a huge part of the world has become a lava lake and, for reasons that make absolutely no sense to me, not only are people living right beside it while being protected behind force fields, the Earth isn't trying to fix it at all and is only using a catalytic converter to cut down on the pollution. Also, just know that every time they mention "the Sea of Fire," I will be thinking of the epic scene in Flash Gordon when our heroes fly through the universe to the planet Mong...

Legion Lost (vol 2) #6 Legion Lost #1 sold 41,726 copies. Legion Lost #6 sold 17,502 copies. That's a 58% drop. I think I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall inside DC Comics offices when these sales numbers were coming back. "But we have Fabian Nicieza writing this! He's super popular. Remember when everything he touched at Marvel was flying off the shelves? We have artist Pete Woods, who did some amazing work on some of the Superman books... and he's doing some of the best work of his career. We even added Tom DeFalco to help with the scripting and he's taking over the book next issue. And to help Pete make his deadlines, we've got Matt Camp providing some artwork, too! Let's get an amazing cover as well, showing the entire team bursting off the page. We've brought back Gates and Yera, so all the fans should be happy. Right? Right?? We've got three of the most popular Legionnaires of the past 40 years - Wildfire, Dawnstar, and Timber...