Long Live the Legion

The Brave and the Bold #5 Let's take a short detour away from the regular series and see what Mark Waid can do with the Legion on a different book. For those who are curious, this book came out the same month as Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #32 but I didn't want to break up the Quest for Cosmic Boy just to see what was going on here. I find it kind of strange that Waid brought the Legion over to the Brave and the Bold right after he quit the regular book, especially as the Legion was losing many readers each month. Do you put the Legion into the Brave and the Bold to save the Legion, or for another reason? Before we begin, can I just point this one thing out? I think Tom Smith was one of the better colorists during this time period and he really brought a lot to George Perez's work. But what he did to Karate Kid on the cover? Wow... and I thought 70's comics were bad for their yellow face... We're midway through an extended story (that's been going s...

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #35 Oh no... we've reached that time again... when the cover doesn't match the story inside. It's always the first sign that the Legion is headed towards bad times... Also, if you told me that Light Lass wasn't on the original version of this cover and got Photoshopped in later, I'd totally believe you. It's The Quest for Cosmic Boy: E.R.G.onomics part 2 by writer Tony Bedard and artist Dennis Calero. For those of you who missed last issue, and this Bedard run, here's the quick recap. Supergirl was elected team leader but Brainiac 5 is running the show. Cosmic Boy disappeared (he actually joined a super-team 1,000 years in the future) so Brainy figured out three places where he may have gone. Atom Girl, Shadow Lass, and Timber Wolf headed to Lallor to try to find their former leader and discovered a plot to assassinate Lallor's president because he wants the planet to join the U.P. A super-powered assassin named E...