Long Live the Legion

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 ...

Legion of Super-Heroes (vol 7) #5 A Walter Simonson cover! And Walter Simonson interior art! Wow... If nothing else, I know that Star Boy's beard will never look better... Not much to recap because we wrapped up the Dominators/Daxamite storyline last issue so I'm guessing we're going to be setting the foundations for all the future plots with this one. Or plots that we're going to completely forget about as soon as it's convenient (cough...Mekt's brother...cough). "One day, a thousand years from now..." was written by Paul Levitz, pencilled by Simonson, and inked by Dan Green & Sean Parsons. We begin at Legion HQ, and every time I stare at that upside-down rocket ship, I wonder why they went back to this after the cool volume 3 headquarters. Yet another point in my "this isn't the OG Legion" calculus. At 6:00 AM, Star Boy is just waking up and discovers that Dream Girl is already up. He wonders if she had any bad dreams, but she says ...

Legion Lost (volume 2) #4 I do love tribute covers. And it is great that they're paying tribute to a cover of a Keith Giffen classic (yes, drawn by Kevin Maguire, but Giffen plotted the book). But were there no Legion covers they could work with? Anyway, because I have to, here's the recap of the drek that came before this. Timber Wolf's been chasing a murderous alien around Minnesota and North Dakota, spreading the pathogen he's been infected with all over the place. He faces off against this killer in a huge shopping mall and it's broadcast across, at the very least, the U.S. Because of the pathogen, he can shoot claws out of his finger tips. Then it's revealed that the killer is only targeting those infected humans who are developing Durlan powers. And the killer is... Yera, otherwise known as Chameleon Girl and Colossal Boy's wife. Let's place bets now, since we're probably finally going to give Yera some dialogue, on what's the over/under on...

Legion Secret Origin #3 Welcome back, everyone. I don't know if we really need a recap for this series. After all, they're basically just retelling the Legion origin story. I guess we could talk about how Brainiac 5 is being written like an eccentric idiot. Or how there's a trio called the Security Directorate who I originally thought was working behind the scenes, but now are out in the open, and originally were pro-Legion, but now seem to be anti-Legion... well, the human, Mycroft, is. The Coluan, Zarl, and the Naltorian, Anisa, seem to view them as a good thing... or a sign of the bad things to come...  At this point, I'm just leaning back, enjoying the amazing artwork by penciller Chris Batista and inker Marc Deering, and trying to get through the confusing story by Paul Levitz. Let's take a look at this issue, called "Connections." Onboard a U.P. military vessel, "parked" at Metropolis Starport, some of the soldiers are panicked and trying t...