Long Live the Legion

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...

Legion Secret Origin #5 I'm not going to lie - if you had told me that Legion Secret Origin would be the best of the three Legion books coming out of the New52, I don't know if I would've believed you. I'm waffling between this and LSH. Legion Lost is a, no pun intended, lost cause at this point. This, admittedly, is kind of a roundabout way of saying that I'm going to miss it when it's gone, flaws and all. So, of course, because I've started this review so positively, I'm fully expecting this issue to be horrid. "Time" is written by Paul Levitz, pencilled by Chris Batista, and inked by Marc Deering. We begin at what might possibly be the most important moment in Legion history. Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy are in the Time Bubble, heading back to meet Superman. What? Not Superboy, you ask? Don't you remember during the Adventure Comics run that the Legion was trying to recruit Superman but "accidentally" ended up in ...