Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes LSH # 9 SPOILERAMA

Wow, interest in this book MUST be at an all-time low here... no new thread for this yet?

I thought it was pretty good... possibly the best issue since Levitz' return.

I LIKED:

Briany's LOLworthy snarkiness

Dream Girl gets to engage in a bit of kickassery

The LLOST have not been forgotten

Gravity Kid!

Both the Dominator and the Fatal 5 plotlines brewing... I hope the payoff is HUGE...

The holotech or whatever you wanna call it that lets us SEE everybody is nice

Some less-pleasing stuff:

WHY is Thom still in that hoverchair??

WHEN will Harmonia finally explain why she didn't use her powers to prevent Titanfall?

I'm not willing to say the glory days are back yet, but this was a solid issue for me.

My thoughts exactly... I wish this had been issue #1 of the Levitz run. This is the first time I've felt any excitement and sense of anticipation for this incarnation of LSH.

Definitely the best since Levitz returned.
Yay, Gravity Kid appearance.
New recruits? Could explain new character on August's cover.

Fun Lightle cover. Fun interior art. Lot's of color!


We have a plot!

We have lots of Legionnaires.

We have Thom doing something and showing some personality.

Works for me.

Anyone with sharp eyes able to translate the Interlac words that might be the names of the two 'possible recruits' D-Damsel mentions? Looks like they're on the cover of August's issue, too.

Why is no one mentioning <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">the Revelation that Validus is around, when Gariddian is himself??</span></span>

and that the legion broke the iron curtain of time.

Well, you see, they were actually triplets, and the Luck Lords stole one of them and . . .

ha ha i already told lash my theory which wasn't said for seriousness but...he's Mekt's twin.

I hope Validus' origins are now far removed from what they originally were... I never DID care fot that Darkseid twist.

Me either.


Validus/Tribulus was shown in dotREBELS, a year or so ago.
Tribulus even got Validus brains from Lyrl, at the end.

I get my copy tomorrow.

That's nothing, dearest.
Poor, poor LEGION LOST #9 doesn't have a thread either, and nobody seems to have noticed!

I noticed.
I guess I'll call it 'The Culling', though.

I haven't made it to LLOST 9 yet but I hope to very soon and will definitely comment then!

the return of validus is the first time Levitz has moved away from the status quo left at the end of the baxter run (unlike the new Empress for example).

I am pleased to see a great character return but I want to know how it is possible. In this universe was garridan never validus or is this a different creature created by Darkseid. Mekt's sibling would be a nice closure of that plotline. Hopefully the rumoured #0 will clear things up.

I had zero interest in Blackest Night and whatever the last Titans thing was where they were all wasting one another right and left.

When I heard about this, my eyes glazed over all over again. Bleah.

this would explain why Validus was around in Legion Lost.

and i wonder how the legion broke the Iron Curtain...

I would assume he's still recovering and not on active duty yet. I did translate the Interlac but its in one of the legion facebook's and i cant access it at work so i'll post it later but it appears to be names...not heroic names though (at least my opinion) someone said one of the names was Japanese in origin..i think the was the female: Otaki i think that's what the interlac translted as.

The male was something else but not standard english/american way of how a name usually is.

Looks like Otaki for the woman and Mwinadji for the man. That's an odd name, but in a group with people named Reep Daggle and Luornu Duorgu and Tinya Wazzoo of Bgtzl, I guess it's not *that* odd...

"Otaki" is a city in New Zealand.

"Otaku" is apparently someone obsessed with anime.

At least Reep and Luornu and Tinya are pronouncable. How the heck do you say Mwinadji?


Liked the issue pretty well, but it seemed short to me so I counted the pages. Only 20. Is that standard nowadays? What ever happened to 24?

I don't think I'll ever warm up to Harmonia. Maybe she'll be Dominator fodder.

20 pages became the standard for DC with the 'holding the line at $2.99' promotion. It was a way to keep their books at the more wallet-friendly $2.99 price (this is assuming one would consider $3.99 UNfriendly for a comic, which I do for the most part) while also saving money by cutting costs (page count).

20 pages in LSH #9. And the first page showed one panel, 4 characters standing around, 11 words that revealed nothing new or interesting.

If we have only 20 pages, make them count, please.

Compared to other fine comics I'm reading now, this one is not up to speed yet.

Still...Long Live the Legion.

Random observations;

On pages 14 and 15, we get to see the message board symbols for Harmonia Li ( Chinese character for Harmony ), and then Glorith (a tree?), Dragonwing (a bat wing), Chemical Kid (a beaker) and Comet Queen (a capital Interlac letter-looking thing). Squint at Glorith's tree-symbol and it could also look like a mushroom-cloud...

On p. 6, Gravity Lad also has a SP symbol, and I don't recall the SP having a mission monitor board style symbol before.

Gravity Lad's joined the SP? Neat. I knew he'd followed Power Boy (who had been offered an SP job) to Takron-Galtos, but I didn't know that he'd also signed up.

I'm probably never going to love Harmonia Li, but her costume is pretty cool.

The Dominators have long had an obsession with tinkering with the meta-gene. It's interesting to see them fielding super-powered aliens like Dys, whose power turned out to be very useful against Brainy, the one Legionnaire who is most dependent on gear to function.

I like that their teleportation tech is so clearly limited as well, requiring them to black out an entire continent of their homeworld to open a portal to earth from their homeworld.

I love the idea of teleportation and characters who can teleport but it CAN make things a little TOO easy sometimes, so I also am onboard with the downside to the Dominators' teleport tech!