Long Live the Legion

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #25 To recap everything that's been going on (by the way, I do this as much for myself as for all of you... this book drops subplots like they're on fire): Sun Boy and his group of former murderous criminals have been blipped out of the universe Brainiac 5 still has Lemnos, the villain who led those criminals, locked up somewhere A new group of villains, made up of one who creates sonic waves when he farts, a Titanian who's almost as powerful as Saturn Girl, a bunch of giants (like Micro Lad) from Big City, Nemesis Kid, and Tarik (we don't know if he's mute yet), have about to attack the Legion HQ on Earth and no one saw it coming... you would think, even if was a transmatter jump, there'd be some sort of early warning system... That same group of villains broke into a museum in Kandor to steal the Phantom Zone projector, even though there's absolutely no reason they would have a clue it existed The Legion grabbed th...

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 #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...