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Cosmic Boy resigns as Legion leader in both books! Darkseid is back... kinda! Phantom Girl freaks out Superboy! We take a look at Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #4 & Adventure Comics #518

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Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #4 Whenever I write these columns, I'm always struggling with how nitpicky I should be. For example, should I point out that Lightning Lass has toothpick arms or not?Or that Saturn Girl's right arm is anatomically... questionable? Yep, we're leaning into nitpicky this week. The lightning-fast recap: Garth, Imra, and Ayla have headed to Avalon, which is a medieval planet that's been taken over by Darkseid. Or is worshipping Darkseid... Or really likes stone-faced dictators... Earth-Man has thrown away his Green Lantern ring, Saturn Girl was defeated by a really powerful Sensor Girl, and Shadow Lass is single. This issue is brought to you by writer Paul Levitz and artists Yildiray Cinar, Francis Portela, and Wayne Faucher. The trio who've gone to Avalon are just a little bit surprised that everyone on the planet is worshipping Darkseid. We're going back to the Great Darkness saga because, why not? They even reference it as Imra me...
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Writing Battle - The Crossing Guard

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There's a website called Writing Battle  that has monthly competitions for short story writers. Each time, they assign you three story elements that you use to create your prose.   This is the second story I wrote for one of the competitions and wanted to post it here. Please enjoy! The story elements I was assigned: Genre: Swashbuckler Character: Volunteer Object: Typewriter  The Crossing Guard by Jay McKiernan   "Okay, tell me what happened." "That man is crazy! I was just walking with my girlfriend, minding my own business, and this old man comes up and start flirting with Jenny. She's fifty years younger than him and he's asking her out and wanting to buy her dinner. I step up and tell him to leave us alone, as polite as I can be. Then he starts whacking me with his stop sign! I didn't fight back because I'd kill 'im. But there's only so much a man can take, you know?”   "Okay, tell me what happened." "It's...
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Writing Battle - Across the Library

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There's a website called Writing Battle  that has monthly competitions for short story writers. Each time, they assign you three story elements that you use to create your prose.   This is the first story I wrote for one of the competitions and wanted to post it here. Please enjoy! The story elements I was assigned: Genre: Alternate History Setting: Sanctuary Character: Single Parent I'll also put a warning - this story contains racism/xenophobia.     Across the Library  by Jay McKiernan    There’s a library that sits on the border of the United States of America and Canada. It was built in 1905, when people from both countries wanted to create a safe space where everyone could come together. The province of Quebec and the state of Maine welcomed the Haskell Free Library with open arms, happy to spend time with their neighbors. One entrance sits on the American side. There is immaculate brickwork on both sides of the large wooden double doors with bras...
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Earth-Man saves insects! Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy hookup and she wipes his memories... and she's the hero?? Let's look at Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #3 & Adventure Comics #517

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Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6) #3   Welcome back. We've reached the third issue of the Legion and I wanted to share something... yes, more statistics! (And I'll apologize for my bad Excel work right now) As I was looking over the sales numbers, I wanted to compare to other DC books launched the same month and see if the Legion titles were dropping at a faster rate. They aren't. Both Birds of Prey (which should be a big seller because of the Batman connection) and Zatanna (not as big of a seller because she wasn't that popular in the early 2010s) drop over 10% from the first to second issue. Birds of Prey has a weird jump for issue 4 (I'm honestly not sure why) and then craters to Legion level of sales with #5 and #6. I'm starting to think this is just indicative of most DC books of the time, regardless of the characters or creative team... except for Batman. Or big crossovers. What's most fascinating about this to me is just how consistent it is. I wonder...
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