Long Live the Legion

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23 You may ask yourself, why do comic companies release multiple covers? Supergirl and the Legion #22, continuing the downward sales trend from the boost of adding Supergirl to the book, sold 36,731 copies. This issue, featuring the two covers you see above (and an Adam Hughes cover at that!), sold 41,535 copies. Does that mean there were almost 5,000 people who would buy a comic they didn't care about solely because Adam Hughes drew the cover? Anyway... we're back with the regular creative team of writer Mark Waid, penciller Barry Kitson, and inker Mick Gray. We begin this issue as Supergirl wakes up on the planet Krypton. She's back home and everything is just a bad dream... Until it isn't, and she's greeted by Brainiac 5, Light Lass, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy. I guess we're finally going to wrap up this long-running subplot. But before we do that, we head to somewhere else in Metropolis. Element Lad and Triplicate G...

  Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #21 Please let this be the end of this silly story as Brainiac 5 continues to try to figure out how to bring Dream Girl back to life... Our creative team this issue (and for the first time, they're providing these at the end of the story): Mark Waid & Tony Bedard on the script, Barry Kitson on layouts, Adam DeKraker on pencils, and Rob Stull on inks. So here's my dumb question - does that mean no one plotted it? Or Kitson did? We begin in (snicker) Big City, Antarctica, where Micro Lad is still watching over the giant criminals captured last issue. He's not happy that the news has connected him to the bad guys and think he may be responsible. Three Science Police officers arrive to transfer the prisoners and when Gim calls Legion HQ for confirmation, he makes the discovery that we have more S.P. imposters. One of them blasts him with blue fire and he falls back, stunned. Before we can see Gim fail... again... because that's...

  Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #19 Another excellent cover - artist Barry Kitson really knows how to grab your eye and make you want to check out the book. My only quibble - no green blood? Our creative team this issue - Mark Waid on pencils and Barry Kitson handling the artwork. I do love when an artist handles pencils and inks because you know you're seeing exactly what they want to present to the reader. Kitson being supremely talented doesn't hurt, either. This issue begins in a Science Police interrogation room and a couple of officers are trying to break suspected murder Reep Daggle. Or Chameleon, as most people know him better. It's, I'm guessing, a bad cop/bad cop scenario as we get a bunch of hatred for both Durlans and the Legion and Reep gets to be suitably naive about the whole process. He actually tells the S.P. that if they just let him go, he could find the murderer. The story begins as Cham tells his side of the story. He infiltrated the S.P...

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #17 Is this all a dream? Have we entered Supergirl's mind and we're in deep REM sleep? Does the sight of Ultra Boy leering at Supergirl on the cover fill me with dread? Is Micro Lad hitting on Shadow Lass? We answer some of these questions this week as we continue rereading the Threeboot Legion. This issue is brought to you by writer Mark Waid, penciller Barry Kitson, and inker Mick Gray. We begin somewhere dark. A robot comes to life, surrounded by other robots, and they start talking about carbon reduction. Is this the DC version of Ultron? The S.P.s and the Legion burst inside, both groups intent on stopping this new threat before it starts. Phantom Girl gets to be the sarcastic team member this issue, ripping apart the Science Police and the officer criticizing her. As the robot changes into a huge electrical threat, the Legionnaires start to realize that they may be in big trouble. Supergirl shows up, unplugs the robot, saves the da...