Topic: Matter-Eater Lad and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Series!
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ISSUE ONE
PAGE ONE
Panel One
A large splash panel depicting a publicity shot of the post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes.
Caption: The 31st century. An era which has witnessed a new push towards galactic unity in the form of a fledgling United Planets, an organization devoted to the notion that through cooperation worlds can achieve far more than they could ever achieve on their own. The Legion of Super-Heroes, a group of young people hailing from a variety of worlds throughout the U.P. was the living embodiment of this philosophy. One year ago they disappeared.
Panel Two
Close up of a man's white beard.
Caption: They were not the only embodiment of the dream of galactic unity, however.
Panel Three
A little more of the man's face can be seen, revealing a top hat that seems to be made out of a U.P. flag...
Caption: He is rumored to have hitched rides with Space-Cabby. To have fought crime alongside Tommy Tomorrow.
Panel Four
More of the man's U.P.-flag draped outfit can be seen.
Caption: He is... Uncle Space!
Uncle Space: What in tarnation are them Dominion varmits up to this time?
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Dominator 3: We knew that when we saw him flying under his own power, unprotected in space!
Panel 3
Uncle Space: *puching Dominators* "Not a typical--"? Now you've done gone and insulted me, boy! Ya long-toothed varmints!
Panel 4
Uncle Space: I'm the living embodiment of the typical earthling! Freedom-loving, peace-loving earthlings! *punching more Dominators*
Panel 5
Uncle Space: You think just because the Legion vanished last year the United Planets is gonna be easy pickin's? *punching more Dominators*
Panel 6
Uncle Space *smashing out of ship*: Well, you just crawl on back home and tell your big-disced boss that the United Planets is under the protection of Uncle Space!
Panel 7
Uncle Space *flying towards Earth; to wrist-communicator*: Kem? Are ya'll about ready to go public? I'm gettin' a mite too old for all this roughhousing!
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PAGE 3
<the entire page is from the point of view of someone watching a holo-documentary>
Panel 1
Host: I'm Ennis Jahnson, and this is Interplanetary Cartography's Wild Flora and Fauna. Today, we will be exploring the past of the destroyed planet Krypton, home to some of the strangest creatures ever to inhabit this galaxy.
Panel 2
Ennis: For example, this large rodent-like creature may look like a overgrown mole, but it is far more unique. This is the Kly-throp, whose name translates into Interlac as "matter-eater".
Panel 3
Ennis: Unlike ordinary moles, which feed on a diet of earthworms and insect larvae, the Kly-throp developed the ability to extract the minerals it needs to survive by directly consuming various metals.
Panel 4
<an arm can be seen changing the channel.>
Ennis: This is remarkably parallel to the development of fauna on the planet Bismol, where... *bzzt*
Panel 5
Announcer: On the next episode of Particon: The Series, see how our intrepid heroine conquers the Every-48-Hours Monster, an terrible menace which has been plaguing the planet Zentor, and which is believed responsible for the dissapearance of its former champion, the mighty Questar!
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*changes channel again; an announcer in foreground; the classic LSH HQ in background of monitor*
announcer: ...construction has Metropolis all abuzz! Looking much like a rocket ship that nose-dived into the plaza, the structure also has an air of classic nobility to it. But the real question on everyone's mind is-- what exactly is going on inside it?
Panel 2
*shot zeroes in on Legion HQ; constuction workers can be seen outside*
dialogue balloon pointing at HQ: Tenzil, where do you want to put the Planetary Chance Machine?
Panel 3
*closer shot of HQ*
dialogue balloon: Hmmm. Put it in my room.
dialogue balloon: Your room? Why not the Assembly Room?
dialogue balloon: Well... I like to... play with it.
Panel 4
*even closer shot of HQ*
dialogue balloon: Okay, I am *so* not going to touch that answer.
dialogue balloon: Thank you.
Panel 5
*all-yellow panel, as shot has pulled in right on top of the HQ*
dialogue balloon: Tenzil! Nura's freaking me out again! She said I was going to suffer a beautiful agony. Then she started doing an interprative dance. Why's she so weird?
dialogue balloon: You try not sleeping for two years and see how you act. Nura!! Quit freaking out the newbies!!!
dialogue balloon: You shouldn't yell. It hurts my feelings. And then I feel like hurting you. But I won't, because the stars say not to.
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PAGE 5
Panel 1
(New Athramite Legionnaire, Sensory Lad, rushes into the mission monitor room, where Tenz and the others are standing...)
Sensory Lad: Tenzil! Must come quick! Someone is trying to threshhold into headquarters!
Tenzil: Thanks, Sensory Lad. Sun Boy, Nightwind, you're with me...
Panel 2
<Sensory Lad, Tenzil, Sun Boy, and Nightwind all flying through Legion HQ...>
Sun Boy: So, you can actually sense when a threshhold is about to open?
Sensory Lad: Of course! It's a huge disruption of the structure of space and time! I can't believe you humans don't notice!
Tenzil: Well, we aren't blessed with the forty-seven sense of an Athramite such as yourself...
Panel 3
Sensory Lad: In here! I can scride it! So bleen!
Nightwind: "Scride"? "Bleen"?
Tenzil: Obviously words for a sensory concept we mere humans lack...
Panel 4
<the team lands in a room filled with electronic equipment....>
Tenz: Yep. Someone's definitely trying to threshhold in here. Good thing we've got the tech to prevent unwanted visitors. I'm surprised they're this close to opening a portal, though. Maybe we should get this amped up?
Panel 5
Sun Boy: Looks like whoever it is is just trying to thresh here from Mars. Doesn't seem like it could be anything too dangerous?
Tenzil: You're probably right, Dirk. And I'm curious to see who would even know our co-ordinates. Prepare yourself, troops. I'm going to open the threshhold briefly, and see who comes through...
Panel 6
<Tenzil with surprised look on his face...>
Tenzil: Jumping fishhooks!
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*a muscley Lester Spiffany and Storm Boy exit the threshold*
Tenzil: Lester! What have you been doing?
Lester: Chill out, Pops! Just took li'l Storm Boy here to see Nix Olympica. He's never seen it bef... ***BuuuUUUrp!*
Panel 2
Tenzil: Are you drunk? And where's your shirt? "Pops"?!!?
Lester: Hey, when you look this hot, you dont wear a shirt. And we mighta had a few Martian Martinis. So what, Pops?
Storm Boy: *giggle!*
Panel 3
Tenzil: Sensory Lad, will you escort young Storm Boy back to his quarters, please?
Sensory Lad: Certainly, though he floqus terrible. Hurts my neeble to floqu him.
Storm Boy: You keep your neeble away from me, bug boy!
Tenzil: GO!!
Panel 4
Tenzil: Lester, you're out of line. The thresholds aren't your toy. You know they're emergency use only. I don't see how getting Storm Boy drunk on Mars qualifies. Dominator spies are EVERYwhere and--
Lester: Well, maybe if you'd given me founder status, I'd have more responsibilities around here and wouldn't be so ***buuuUuuurp!* So bored! But Noooooooooooooo. You had to give it to Dirk fraggin' Morgna!
Panel 5
Sun Boy: Jealous much?
Tenzil: Shut up, Dirk. Look, Lester, we went over this. Traditionally, the Legion founders are a dark-haired male-- that's me; a blonde female-- that's Taryn...
Nightwind: Calorie Queen now.
Tenzil: ...Right; and a red-haired male-- that's DIRK. Dirk, who was a Legion ally while you were still pulling the legs off Venturan Walking Money!
Panel 6
*Lester, walking off*
Lester: Shut up! You're the ones who are jealous! Trying to make me feel bad about myself so that my powers malfunction. You're STUPID, all of you! Stupid! STUPID!!!
Panel 7
Tenz' flight ring: *BREEEP! Kem? Are ya'll about ready to go public? I'm gettin' a mite to old for all this roughhousin'.
Panel 8
Insect Queen (entering room): Tenzil! Nura's doing that stupid dance again. She's got Hate-Face all in a space-tizzy.
Panel 9
Tenzil *to ring*: Sam, my friend... I'm afraid it's going to be a while yet.
Tenzil's ring: Well, hang in there, son. I'll be in touch.
*Tenz, Sun Boy and Insect Queen attempt to restrain them*
Andromeda: I'll break it up, alright-- her cowardly, quitting face!
Thunder: Give me your best shot, Nun Lass!
Panel 2
off-panel voice: STOP AT ONCE!
*all stare out into "camera"*
Panel 3
*Dreamer makes her first on-panel appearance, looking every bit as eerie as she does beautiful*
Panel 4
Andromeda *whisper*: The mad Naltorian!
Panel 5
Dreamer: You will apologize to each other, and become best friends, and you will do it now. Because if you don't, the moon says I might suffer unwanted consequences of your bile. And I've suffered enough!
Panel 6
Thunder: And I'm tired of being looked down on because I left after the Blight War!
Panel 7
Dreamer *looking uber-scary*: Look at my fingers, Thunder.
Panel 8
*Dreamer touches Andromeda's neck*
Andromeda: ArrrrrRRRrrgh!
Panel 9
*Andromeda has collapsed unconscious*
Dreamer: Friends you and Laurel shall be. Friends, or you will answer to me. And the deadly Khundish secrets locked in my brain. The secrets I perfect while you sleep, unaware.
Nemesis Kid: So, Hatey-- that freaky Naltorian been bugging you again?
Hate-Face: She's almost relentless. And I think she's immune to my emotion controlling powers. Fortunately, I have the combined strength of both a devil and an angel to back me up...
Panel 2
Blast-Off: Well, I heard that she's perfected that weird stuff the Khunds taught her to the point she can take out a Daxamite!
Nemesis Kid: No way! Someone's trying to freak you out. It's like a Freshmen initiation or something.
Hate-Face: Whatever it is, I still don't know why Tenzil insists on her being here. She's nuttier than Winath crunch pudding!
Panel 3
*scene has shifted back to Tenzil and the rest*
Tenzil: Cece, perhaps you should carry your new pal back to her quarters. Dirk, Lonna... gather everyone together for the daily meeting. We'll begin once Lauren wakes up, in... Nura?
Nura: 38 minutes.
Panel 4
*they exit, leaving Nura & Tenzil alone*
Nura: You're aboout to wonder if this is all a mistake.
Tenzil: Well, the thought had--
Nura: But it isn't, Tenzil.
Panel 5
Nura: Oh, there is to be tragedy, there's no doubt about that. Heartbreak as well. Suffering and sorrow and sadness. Monstrous defeats. Beautiful agonies.
Tenzil: Oh... good?
Panel 5
*Nura grasps his face*
Nura: But there will be joy as well. Happiness and love. And the lives saved... oh, Tenzil, there will be more lives saved than there are stars in this galaxy and beyond.
Tenzil: That *is* good.
Panel 6
Nura: Laurel and Cece may never like me, but they all will respect me. And Tenzil, they will respect you most of all. This is no mistake. It's the entire reason I wasn't swept up in the white oblivion that claimed the first Legion. It's why the stars said... "Go to Tenzil Kem."
Panel 7
Nura: You must believe in yourself. The stars certainly do.
Tenzil *thought caption*: And they wonder why I keep her around?
Nemesis Kid: We're just getting a bite before the daily meeting.
Blast-Off: Yeah, maybe today we'll actually find out when we're going to start going on missions. I don't understand the point of bringing us together each day just to update us on how the construction on the HQ is coming...
Panel 5
Pol: Oh, I'm sure Tenzil knows what he's doing. Especially with Nura by his side.
Taryn: You guys are having the weirdest influence on Hate-Face... next thing you'll have Braino dancing...
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Kid # 3: That kindly maintenance man! He's been sliced in half by a laser beam!
Kid # 4: LOOK!
Panel 2
robot: NYAhahahaha!
Kid # 2: It's some freaky looking robot!
Kid # 1: What could it be? And what are those green flying worm swarm thingies hovering aound him?
Panel 3
robot: I, children? I was once known as Murd Ah McBob! But you are perhaps more familiar with my exploits as-- MURDERMATON!
Panel 4
Kid # 2: Never heard of you.
Kid # 4: Me either.
Panel 5
Murdermaton: I once singlehandedly-- well, sort of-- faced Triad and Ferro of the Legion!
Kid # 1: Triad? Wasn't she the one whose power was she was triplets?
Kid # 3: And wasn't Ferro the guy who-- y'know-- liked to sew and do space-macrame and stuff?
Panel 6
*Murdermaton blasts at kids, they scatter*
Murdermaton: BEGGONE, brats!
Panel 7
Murdermaton: *caressing chewies* The good Doctor desires to study the psychotropic properties and abilities of a live witch wolf... and the Doctor's merest desire is Murdermaton's burning, all-consuming command! Isn't that right, pretties? Precious chewies! Follow me to the Lupoarium, my pets!
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