Topic: Legion of Super-Heroes #5 (Preview & Spoilers)
future king
Excuse me but can you please direct me to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles?
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I half expected Dream Girl to be given the ring for a second there... Can you imagine the sheer power a GL would command if they had the ability to see into the future? What a friggin' cool idea that would be!
(and maybe they just might do that very thing if they are, in fact, building an army of Lanterns for the 31st century)
From: ontario | Registered: Feb 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Candle: Having both rings sitting on the table next to the bed on the coming cover doesn't bode well for Shady, if the ring is what is controlling his hatered of aliens.
He didn't look smitten on that cover. brrrr But, she knows about the rings special properties. So?
Just because the ring affects his mind doesn't mean he instantly goes back to normal when it's taken off. It could very well be an effect that wears off.
It's also possible that Shady doesn't know about the ring's effects, since Brainy was being pretty vague about it.
It may also just be creative license on the cover to show that he's sleeping with a Legionnaire. He might not actually remove the ring in the story itself.
From: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Sep 2004
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i think the guardian's comment can have some fact to it...considering that the guardians didnt learn their lessons.
-not reacting fast enough to the first crisis. -not helping out their "favorite" green lantern hal jordan when he was suffering. -not telling the truth about the being that's the avatar of the white lantern. -not evolving themselves like Ganhet did to be a more effective and hands on guardian.
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From: nyc | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Superboy-Supergirl: i think the guardian's comment can have some fact to it...considering that the guardians didnt learn their lessons.
-not reacting fast enough to the first crisis. -not helping out their "favorite" green lantern hal jordan when he was suffering. -not telling the truth about the being that's the avatar of the white lantern. -not evolving themselves like Ganhet did to be a more effective and hands on guardian.
I guess the problem with that sort of thing is that, as someone who hasn't read much of the latest Green Lantern stuff, I don't have any idea what any of those things are about. Nor, as a Legion fan, do I really think I *need* to know about 20th century Geoff Johns storylines, just as I don't really expect to need to know who Damian Wayne is, or whether or not 'Sword of the Atom' is still in continuity to make sense of something being said in a Legion of Super-Heroes story set 1000 years later.
Sure, Harmonia Li said 'least wise,' but she could have, much more accurately, said 'least relevant to this comic book.'
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yet some of what happend in the 21st century can be touched on in the legion...since it is the same universe. You don't have to know everything but gotta respect its a shared universe.
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From: nyc | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Candle: why does Dyogene keep picking the wrong people? I thought that the rings themselves picked their new user.
Something to do with fact that the GL planet Mogo no longer exists as a guiding force which has prevented rings from seeking new bearers on their own.
No much happens in the issue, other than Harmonia Li giving off even more sinister vibes, poor Kimball Zendak being assassinated (though you'd assume that SP's would keep their landing bays under much heavier surveillance), and the "revelation" of Shady being with Earthman. Have never got the impression that Niedrigh was a true xenophobe, (as such a person would have never sought out Legion membership in the first place), merely one in word, and only when it served his own personal agenda. Therefore his "betrayal" of the cadre of "Earthers for Earth" leadership was not much of a surprise. Still wondering if "Nura" is really a Durlan plant, and it is his desperate search for the captive Dream Girl is what is preventing Thom from returning from the 21st Century...
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quote:Originally posted by Korbal: Still wondering if "Nura" is really a Durlan plant, and it is his desperate search for the captive Dream Girl is what is preventing Thom from returning from the 21st Century...
Interesting posit, and, in light of her sudden blondeness, amusing. (Although the Durlan infiltrators seem to be more likely to be recognized by distorted eyes and facial features, and not incorrect hair-color...)
It is a bit odd that Dawnstar and Gates are still just sort of chilling on Naltor, for no apparent reason, other than to be there and look unimpressed when Harmonia Li rejects the ring.
Didn't they have stuff they were supposed to be doing? Something involving the Titanian refugees? Wasn't Gates complaining about all the teleporting he was going to have to do? Didn't Cosmic Boy send out an 'all hands on deck' signal, and shouldn't Gates have gotten to the Painted Desert camp before even Earth-Man with his terribly convenient super-speed?
Guess not. Gates had to be there to squint a buggy squint at the High Seers unseemly May-December schoolboy crush on Harmonia Li, after all... That cradle-robbing cougar, he's only like, ninety! She could be his grandmother! Shameless! /fans self
Same with Mon-El and Polar Boy. Polar Boy visited Tharr with Sun Boy many issues of Adventure ago, and never came back. Mon-El was sent to dump off an ice asteroid 'somewhere between here and Tharr' three issues ago, and despite being able to fly at near light speed, hasn't been seen since (and the mission monitor board suggests that he's actually *on* Tharr, for exactly what reason, is unclear. Is he celebrating his new bachelorhood by getting into a cool moresome with Brek and some Tharran hotties? And by 'hotties,' I mean frosties).
Mon-El, Dawnstar, Gates, Wildfire, perhaps Tyroc (if he can still teleport), should *all* appear in a flash of light and a crack of thunder when Cosmic Boy calls for 'everyone' to show up. Instead, we saw the same people we've seen several issues in a row, plus Shrinking Violet.
So many players, Paul is kinda scattering them around, and, it seems, keeping them off-screen without any real rationale, other than the 'meta' rationale of needing to keep them off-screen so that he can focus on the others.
Even then, the absence of XS (who also should have been at the Painted Desert camp before the echo of Cosmic Boy's call to arms made it across the room), Star Boy, Bouncing Boy, Duplicate Damsel, etc. is kind of jarring.
It would be unrealistic (and cruel to the new artist) to expect to see everybody in the first issue or two, but cutting out some of the increasingly annoying pop-ups detailing everyone's names, homeworlds and powers, to put in room for name-drops like 'Mon-El took some time off to go drown his sorrows with the finest Rimborian hookers and blow' or 'Tyroc is on Marzal, celebrating the birth of his and Saucy's second child' would be nice.
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Nobody has thought that Earth Man can be actually Mon-El disguised and only Shaddy to know the truth?
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From: Valencia- Spain | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by EmeraldEmpress: Nobody has thought that Earth Man can be actually Mon-El disguised and only Shaddy to know the truth?
Certainly fits with him displaying super-strength (and possibly also super-speed) in this issue.
Why he'd give a speech about tolerance to Sun Boy, with no one else there to hear it, remains unclear.
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future king
Excuse me but can you please direct me to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles?
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Hey yeah! Or maybe it's Shady who's a Durlan spy and that's why she acting so out of character!
Oh wait .... did she actually use her shadow-casting powers in the last few issues? Let me go back and look ...
From: ontario | Registered: Feb 2007
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quote:Originally posted by future king: Oh wait .... did she actually use her shadow-casting powers in the last few issues? Let me go back and look ...
Yeah, Shady uses her powers in this issue on the double-splash page.
If you ask me, the most likely explanation behind Shady/EM (and SG/CB over in Adventure) is bad writing. Dragging Legionnaires down into the sewer is a quick and easy shortcut to characterization. Much more of this and the Levitz3 Legion can be classified as soft porn.
From: Reimagined Trom | Registered: Jul 2003
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Wasn't Gigi Cusimano referred to as "Chief" in #1? With that being the case, why was Zendak also referred to as Chief in #5? I understand people might still call him that even if he had retired, but the scene seemed to indicate he was still in charge.
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From: Palm Bay FL | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Superboy-Supergirl: i would say its only inappropriate if they had an understanding of her not doing that. But being that they're both BFFs i doubt such a rule ever was spoken of or thought of. I'm pretty sure Tinya's phased into Shady's room b4 like this billions of time, and She was never offended by Tinya doing so. After all wouldn't she have put a stop to it if she was...we know Shady doesn't hold back her mouth.
Seems pretty unlikely they would have such an agreement, unless both Shady and Mon-El were comfortable for several years with Tinya popping in unannounced.
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