Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Adventure Comics 522 w/Preview & Spoilers

Yo! 'Sup? How about a preview of tomorrow's Adventure 522 ?

Hm, just a taste, really, but nice. The art by Borges = gorgeous, btw!

Really nice artwork... beautiful shot of Gigi...

The preview is up on Newsarama

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=2870&page=16

Interesting ... Sun Killer seems to be a formidable villian. Can this be Sun Emporer?? If so he really needs to go on a new diet stat! LOL

It's nice to see Tellus is so preoccupied with Dawnstar's well being. I like that he is so attached to his teammates this way. It gives his character more depth I think. Oh, and it's always great to see Gigi too.

I loved the SP aboard their ship on their way to Takron-Galtos ... it had an almost Star Trek feel to it. Makes me think maybe they should get their own comic but with adventures in space as opposed to on Earth, etc.

The artwork was excellent in my opinion.

Can't wait to read the rest of the story .......

*Sigh* Tellus is once again being depicted as standing on his legs. He never used his legs for anything that I know of before this new incarnation. He always used his flight ring or his powers to fly or hover. Is this an artistic mistake or yet another difference of the new version of the Legion versus the old?

So if... <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Dawnstar's out of commission for the forseeable future, are there going to be recruits called up from the Academy again at last?

Also, Sun Killer is the same guy who used to be called Sun Emperor, right?</span></span>

I hate it too. Since the Johns-boot, Tellus's limbs have been consistently portrayed more like human ones than like the way they were in the pre-Zero Hour Legion. I don't think it's an intentional retcon, I think it's just recent artists not really understanding how alien he was meant to be.

Steve Lightle has said something to the effect that almost no one else has been able to draw Tellus completely right. This is just another example of that.

Are we supposed to assume that he's simply become more used to human-like mannerisms after living on land for so long?

Yeah, it's a bummer. Nobody currently working on the Legion really gets Lightle's vision of Tellus.

Not a bad issue, overall. I really like the streamlined approach to covers that DC is taking this month. The stark white background is hot. Too bad the lovely ladies featured on the cover didn't get any play in the story.

Have the Science Police always used transuits?

Lots of good action for Mon-El. I hope his GL phase passes quickly, though. I appreciate the $2.99 price but missed the Atom feature.

Guys, when I saw that splash page of Mon in his Green Lantern costume, I tried to stance myself the same way and almost broke my leg trying to bend it the same way as Mon.

Nice artwork, but I can't wait for Jimenez.

If they're going to cut the page count, I'd rather have more Legion and skip the preview.

I was so looking forward to seeing the Black Witch in this issue, dammit.

Any guesses on who Baby Blue is going to grow up to be?

The super-fatass ray strikes again! Who will be its next victim?

Hopefully some sticklike Super-model lass.


Maybe Tenzil tried to eat a sun and got fat again.

Can't read the guy's AKA in the preview.

My guess is that it's someone other than ol' Nigal Douglous. I'd rather see Beauty Blaze, myself.

Besides, everyone knows that fat people are happy and jolly. I can't accept this unrealistic portrayal of the overweight as evil.

[snip]

No no no. Only fat dudes are happy and jolly. Fat chicks are all pitable pushy psychos who can't stop talking to married men about our collections of latex bondage gear. Didn't you ever watch NYPD Blue?

Crap, you're right! I'll try to be more sensitive to gender differences when applying stereotypes in the future!

I like this Sun Killer fellow! He seems a little Warren Ellis-esque with his whole "I stole the heart of a dying sun" schtick. Plus, I kind of like the idea of Saturn Queen having a bunch of enslaved bad guys waiting in the wings, it's kind of creepy.

Well I finally read the whole issue and I have to say it was ok. Just ok for me, and that's very frustrating. The preview was the best part for me. I guess I felt a bit let down that the story was cut way too short just to give some room to this Legends online review. Oh well, next month is the start of a new chapter for the Legion (Academy, Jimenez).

I don't know who this blue baby creature might be, it's probably someone completely new anyway.

The fight scene with Sun Killer and Green-el was ho-hum in my opinion and Mon seemed "tapped out" a bit too soon though in my opinion. Boy does he really need lots of practice in the GL willpower game!

I don't really care if Tellus has working legs now or not ... I honestly never gave that any serious thought.

I wish they would've used those 5 preview pages at the end to give us more insight as to how/why/when Saturn Queen will escape and go on to form this new Legion of Super-Villians. I bet now we'll just get a throw away line in the special explaining how she, I don't know, blew up the ship and everyone on it then escaped.

Sigh

Baby Blue? Origin of the Universe viewing? Green Lanterns? Warning of Origin of the Unverse unheaded...

could it beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Krona?

Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about him. I bet you're right!

I thought it was interesting that Mon-El's power ring was vulnerable to Sunkiller's yellow solar rays, but Mon-El was vulnerable to the red solar rays. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

I'd also think he'd have a HELLUVA strong will power after spending 1,000 years in the phantom zone without going crackers.

Why can't Tellus just read the Durlans' minds to see what happened to Zendak? Who needs Dawnstereotype?

Interesting issue. I liked seeing Mon-El learn to use his GL ring and make some mistakes.

I was surprised that we didn't see anyone contact Mon yet about the election results. I assumed it would happen in this issue, but I guess not.

I didn't expect to get clues about the LSV event so soon, so it was nice to see things were starting already. And I loved how the various subplots are becoming connected, with Titanfall in issue #1 resulting in the "Blue Baby" and how it's the threat the new GLs were created for and how it connects to Saturn Queen and the LSV. I'm very excited to see where this book is headed.

Same here. I'm sad that the Atom story is going to finish up in a one-shot and then stop.

My dealer said the Atom has a new ongoing in March.
?

It's funny, I saw Lar being strong and using his powers in the yellow light of SK and using the Ring in the red light.
That's what I'd do, anyway.

And I'd say that this story was finished before the count for leader came in, that's why there's no mention of it in this issue.

The blue baby said that it'd make slaves for the evil entity if the energy stayed to wake it, right?
So, that's weird.

Dyogene is still an anomally to me.
As is this whole storyline.
I'll have to just wait and see, I guess.

Didn't read Atom before so I didn't miss it this time, I'm afraid.

Big Legion logo on the cover, but inside were only 3 Legionnaires, one of whom was in a coma.

Two pages of Harmonia Li and we know little more about her.

Sure is a good thing Blue Baby skedaddled. I wonder why.

The Mon-El/Sun Killer fight just seemed flat to me.

Is this to be a war between Dyogene and Blue Baby ("that which the Guardians decreed I battle....")? Will it be the battle of the Little Big Heads?

The Little Big Heads.
That's very good!
lol

About Tellus, given that he has legs as well as a tail, wouldn't his many years out of water have given his legs strength?

I DO prefer him floating, though, as a pure sea creature.
(I've said this before, but DC showed that Tellus' people were originally metahumans pushed genetically to the enth degree by the Dominators.
If DC sticks with that, showing Tellus with more functioning hands and legs might be the way of things. Unfortunately, DC owns him, not Lightle.)