Long Live the Legion

  Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #14 Whenever people ask me why the Legion has struggled with gaining new readers, I think this version of the book might be the perfect encapsulation of the problems. We're on reboot number 4 here and the book doesn't even get to run a year and a half before DC shuts everything down and starts over... kinda... Instead of looking to the future, the Legion, once again, wallows around in its past. There's no breaking new ground. They're just calling back to yesterday. But only a certain yesterday. If it's the wrong yesterday, not the "real" Legion, then it's ignored or treated with contempt. So you're ready to piss off a whole group of Legion fans.  Finally, even when pretending to cater to the middle-aged fans who want their "real" Legion to come back, you've got to come up with numerous plot lines that will piss them off again and again. This is what killed 5YL. And Reboot. And Threeboot. And this on...

Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #13 Welcome back - I hope everyone's had a great week and is ready to continue our deep dive into the Legion versus the Legion of Super-Villains. To recap, the LSV is on Colu and trying to figure out where a planet they want to destroy is located. That's all you need to know... "False Hopes" is brought to you by writer Paul Levitz and artists Yildiray Cinar and Jonathan Glapion. We begin on the 1,000 Mirror Lake on Colu, where Element Lad is facing off against Immortus. We finally get a little background into our villain. He was built on Zuun and has a body of self-regenerating inertron. Jan can't take handle this new threat. As he puts it, Immortus is generating inertron faster than he can stop him. So he generates oxygen and white phosporus and creates a big explosion. That's just like high school chemistry class! Immortus magically disappears and a bleeding Jan tells Invisible Kid (who I guess was hiding this whole time) th...

Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #12 Welcome back as we continue looking at the final storyline of volume 6... which is very weird to say, considering this title didn't even last two years before everything in the DC universe was ripped apart and rebooted... kinda... The recap: The Legion of Super-Villains is back, led by Saturn Queen, as she wants to destroy the four planets that symbolize good in the universe. They've already blown up the Rock of Eternity and now they're on Colu, which has gone silent. Dawnstar is flying around, searching for a blue energy force that put her in a coma. Brainiac 5 is both sexist and a horrible teammate... but at least he's trying to save Star Boy. Anything else, we'll get to it as we go. "False Trails" is written by Paul Levitz with Yildiray Cinar and Jonathan Glapion on art. We begin on Rimbor, where Lightning Lord and Atta, LSV members who are tasked with finding new members, are seeing just what Stegus, a...

Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #11 Saturn Queen has turned psychotic, causing a riot to destroy Takron-Galtos and cover her new Legion of Super-Villains escaping from prison. We have an angry Lightning Lord, struggling with her leadership, Sun Killer, Questor (a Coluan), Zymyr, Immortus, Akka, and Orion the Hunter. Mekt and Akka are on Rimbor to recruit more villains to the team. "False Start" is brought to you by writer Paul Levitz and artists Daniel HRD and Wayne Faucher. We begin on Rimbor and the Legionnaires have arrived to round up as many of the Takron-Galtos escapees as they can. They burst into a building and Phantom Girl tells them that she spots three matches from the list. Sun Boy, Ultra Boy, Lightning Lass, and Wildfire make quick work of them. We also get an interesting exchange:   Wildfire: Now let the boys collect them. Lightning Lass: Let's not be sexist -- that's centuries out of style. Phantom Girl: They didn't mean anything, Ayla. ...