CALLING THE ROLL is a character-by-character look at the latest issue featuring the 31st super-team, the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Sorry this one was so late. I had it typed up a couple of weeks ago, but a computer glitch in the form of my 12 year old nephew happened!
Anyway, Let the (late) Roll be called!
SENSOR GIRL Why, oh why bring back that mask and headgear? I thought she left that mess back in the barn in Smallville. What reason would she have for wearing it in the 31st century? I suppose there is a reason. Or will be now, if this was an editorial mistake. Was this a gesture between royals? Is she still hiding her identity in the U.P?
'Coup de main'. Has Jeckie been hanging around with Jacques?
Sensor Girl makes the still-under control Brainy and Tyroc think they're hitting Jo and Tinya, while the real Ultra Boy and Phantom... sorry, Goose... Girl are-- well, they're somewhere else. Showing them behind Jeckie, or off to the side or floating above their illusory selves would've made things a little clearer. Or perhaps muddied things up even more.
"The temerity of this commoner to call herself a queen." Routing self-styled monarchially titled villainesses is now Jeckie's own unique little specialty, isn't it? Ya gotta have a gimmick.
Which makes me wonder what Jeckie would be like facing down a bonafide evil queen?
SHADOW LASS Wonder if Dyogene was paying attention. Shady's noticing the potential sentient insect and intuiting about the necessary precision of questioning the ring would seem to make her an ideal candidate for a GL ring. Not that I want her to become Shadow Lantern.
Hmmm. Or do I? Shadow constructs...
ELEMENT LAD Love the new look! It'd replace Gim's as my favorite, if it weren't for the pink booties. Ick. I love his hair, here, too.
The way Jan and Kirt's powers combined make Element Lantern a good candidate for Dyogene to consider, too. Though that would be a big misstep for this character, in my opionion.
Seeing the different color signatures used by Jan and Kirt when doing the same thing makes me think color should be incorporated into his power signature more. I kind of miss the little symbols adopted by Element Lad Prime, too. What if a ring of those symbols hovered around one of the loops of the atomic visualization being used for transmutation? Maybe the interlac 'e' on his uniform could change color when appropriate?
INVISIBLE KID Jacques looks great, if a trifle Bumblebee-ish (maybe she's *his* heroic inspiration?). I like the man-hive.
DYOGENE: I loved the art in the panel establishing Ozifer's landscape. I would've appreciated it even more if something about the trees or grass was less Terran looking.
What is Dyogene up to? Ozifer itself as GL? (With that name, I half expected the creation of an Emerald City...) Sentient swamp-suckers? Sentient winged insects? Is Dyogene hellbent on making Kirt a GL? Are my half-baked ideas about Shadow Lantern and Element Lantern possible candidates for full baking in a story oven?
If it's a fully-fleshed out corps Dyogene's after, one that's a crowd working in unity, he might look no further than one Luornu Taine. Duplicate Lantern just doesn't have much of a ring(
) to it, though, does it?
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