I hazily remember there was a Reboot kid of Tinya, but that was in a time period when I was way beyond caring for the characters... one word: COCO :-P
But I always cared very deeply for Tinya and Jos relationship, it was some kind of fundament of the Legion (together with Imra/Garth and Cos/Lydda). It was made even more iconic with Tinyas tragic end.
They actually made me care for the Reboot once: When Tinya died AGAIN (which I felt was even more tragic because of the repetition) during White Triangle. But she got resurrected very quickly, so the effect was lost.
As for caring: I don't know how you feel about it, but I CARE very much for this Action kinda Preboot Legion. While I did never much care for the reboot and the fate of the Threeboot characters left me cold from the first moment on, I deeply feel with those captured Legionnaires and want them to get free. So no matter what the scientists say about this old/new incarnation: Geoff Johns managed to make me care with only a few issues... good job!
From: Bamberg, Germany | Registered: Feb 2007
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Oh by the way, Booster Gold #5 that comes out tomorrow has some notes on a chalkboard in Rip Hunter's lab again, it says: "Lightning Saga(s) Strike Twice?"
Interesting. There's also a mention of Rip having some of Brainiac 5's computer tech from the 31st century in his lab.
Here's a link to the pages! It is for all the DC previews coming out tomorrow actually.
-------------------- Craig C.
- Time travel stories are told in chronillogical order.
From: Santa Ana, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Thanks Craig. Booster Gold is getting pretty good!
Chemical King, I'm sure (well, I hope) we'll see the Action Legion on a more "permanent" base after the end of the Action arc.
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Actually it says "Lightning Saga(s) Strike Twice? 3000 + 8"
So I guess Brainy is gonna try to do something next year again with lightning rods?
-------------------- Exnihil: Novelty, if he had a power, the obvious one to me would of course be "The Power of Grayskull"
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Looking at all the graphitti, I'm wondering if all those elements will play into Final Crisis. There are references to superman's death, "who is Supergirl working for?" and even "The Sun Devils will save us all!" (maybe it's time to dig out that series for eBay!)
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Geoff Johns's interview over at Word Ballon has some interesting Legion-related comments.
Johns discusses how the Legion story in Action Comics won't answer any questions about Legion continuity (that will come later, he says), but this story is designed as a character piece, as a way to show how important the Legion is to Superman. He recommends readers leaving their Legion baggage at the door and looking at what this club means from Superman's perspective.
Johns does address the continuity question, vaguely, in the interview. He says that this incarnation of the Legion picks up from the Levitz Baxter run, but ignores the post-Crisis stuff and the 5 Year Gap. I think he's mentioned that elsewhere, but he confirms it in the podcast.
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I just want to know what the freak happened to the Legion at the beginning of "Lightning Saga" and why they ended up where they did. The more I think about it, the more "LS" seemed like only half a story.
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It certainly is only haf a story - if even that much. As it is, we still have no idea why the Legionnaires went back to the 21st century. All we know is that something or somebody (was that face an image of what's in there, or a reflection of the Legionnaire looking at it?) is now contained in one of those lightning rods. We can speculate who or what it is (Barry Allen?) but there's no clue whatsoever as to why the Legionnaires needed it.
-------------------- Chaim Mattis Keller ckeller@nyc.rr.com Legion-Reference-File Lad
From: New York, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 2003
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I guess we'll know some time in 2008 in Legion of Three Worlds or Final Crisis or in whatever DC has planned for the 50th anniversary.
From: Somewhere in the Multiverse | Registered: Apr 2006
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So, Karate Kid and Luornu's third body have been brought back from the dead. I wonder if Lyle Norg, Chemical King and Ferro Lad have as well?
Notice that Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl appear noticeably older than the other Lightning Saga characters (who were called 'kids' more than once by the 21st century heroes)? Maybe Lightning Lad's supposed to appear similarly haggard, but I didn't find it as noticeable.
Could it be that the former dead Legionnaires were brought back at the expense of the founders' personal time or life-force or something?
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Hmm, Dawnstar also looks older in Action than she did in Lightning Saga.
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