Long Live the Legion

Legion of Super-Heroes (vol 7) #10 I hope everyone pre-ordered Legion of Super-Heroes #1 from your local comic shop. If you didn't, why not? "Choices" is written by Paul Levitz, pencilled by Francis Portela & Andres Guinaldo, and inked by Dan Green and Portela. I'm assuming we're going to get a dramatic shift in art styles for no other reason than they've let us know who did which pages in the credits. No trusting us to be able to figure it out, right? We're in Metropolis and Cosmic Boy is nearing some weird building... the Dominators' embassy. What? The Dominators have an actual embassy on Earth? Does that make any sense whatsoever? Rokk causes a huge spike in power, wrecking everything around him, and then just slips inside. He's looking for evidence behind the kidnapping of Dream Girl and Brainiac 5 last issue so that the Legion can go and save them. In case you forgot, Earthgov told them not to interfere, so the still-unable-to-walk Star Bo...

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...