Long Live the Legion

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...

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #29 Two things stand out about the cover. First, the dead Dominators. I've mentioned before that I'm not sure if the Legion Code against killing still exists in this version and now I'm fairly certain it doesn't. I think it's kinda weird that Mark Waid took that off the table, especially considering how much he loves the Silver Age team. But the bigger thing that stands out is that we have different creators. Writer Tony Bedard, penciller Kevin Sharpe, and inkers Mark McKenna and Jack Purcell are working on the book, taking over mid-storyline. You may ask why? I'm asking why. Why have the main creative team drop the book for an issue right in the middle of a the big, multi-part story? I can understand the artist needing a month, but the writer? The answer may be this. This issue is cover dated June 2007. Do you know what other book is cover dated June 2007? I know I'd be pissed if I saw such a horrible drawing of Kara...

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 #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...