Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion of Super-Heroes #6 (Preview & Spoilers)

Well, he could always reclaim "Absorbancy Boy"!

And he needs to shave off those "Banshee" sideburns

Maybe Val Armorr is the current (future?) incarnation of Immortal Man from a handful of issues of Strange Adventures in the mid-60s. Assuming Paul Levitz had access to the same comics I did at that age, he probably remembers at least one of IM's appearances. The only problem is that IM "erased himself from all existence" during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. However, since many other things that were eliminated during the crisis have since returned, why not him as well?

EM = Grab & Take

Not touching that one.

Oh I know, for a new codename, how about KickedOffTheTeam Lad?

Works for me!

This is an extremely bad idea, for the same reason as lots of other fan pet theories are a bad idea: the theory never works 100% and always requires explaining away discrepancies, and perhaps more importantly, the cumulative effect of lots of these things over the years makes a series impossible to understand.

I greatly enjoyed this issue as well. I liked the confrontation between Earth Man and Brainy. I seem to remember lots of those confrontation moments in the past in the Legion, and this was a good one. And no one got slapped! I loved, loved the delicious ambiguity of the Vi/Ayla page! You KNOW Levitz is f^@&ing with us! I thought the Karate Kid thing was totally out of left field, but that's OK with me for now. Maybe Levitz is just f^@&ing with Giffen, which is as noble a use of comics panel space as anything I can think of. I liked the scene with Imra and Garth. It makes sense what they are doing, and why. I like that their relationship is difficult, but rewarding for them. I'm intrigued about the Tibetan Plateau exclusion zone. What's shaking in Lhasa? I figured, from Saturn Queen's earlier discussion of self-immolation and funeral pyres, that the Titanians were descended from Buddhists. I wonder if their ancestors REALLY cam from Tibet, though. They sure don't LOOK Tibetan. I bet they are really descended from Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, but consider Tibet their spiritual homeland (and things can get very scrambled after 1000 years).

I get what you're saying but I don't know that it always is true.

Ras Al Ghul(sp?) keeps coming back using his Lazarus Pit.
Vandal Savage is immortal. I don't know if he dies and comes back or not.

'The Highlander' was a pretty successful series about dying and coming back.
So is the BBC series 'Torchwood', who's main character dies and comes back over and over, forever.
As does 'Dr. Who', in a different way, of course.

The Wanderers have a character who dies and comes back, Immorto (I forget his newer name.)

I think that that scene was pretty much Jeckie and her powers, but Paul might have something else in mind.
That's Paul, not us disgustingly sentimental and crazy fanboys/girls.

It certainly wouldn't be the first time in literature, would it?
There's quite a few very successful and non-confusing 'returning from the dead' storylines, actually.

Well, again I thought this issue was very entertaining, the guest artists being quite good and the two stories providing a nice breather after the ton of action those first five issues.

Still some questions remain:

1) The Sensor Girl sequence - coming out of the blue - what did it signify?
2) Why do Mon-El and Polar Boy stay on Daxam (except for the reason to minimize the cast)?
3) Where is Element Lad?
4) If Levitz really was saying that L3W is not Legion canon, why taking over one of its most dumb stints - Duplicate Damsel???

2) probably exactly as you say. That's a classic Levitz taking someone off camera for a few issues. The implication is Mon is down after Shady & his split so he's hanging with Brek to try to get himself cheered up. I don't think there's much more to it than that.

Just read it - I didn't think that was the real Karate Kid, figured it was a new person who's taking on his name, since he was at the Academy.

Jeckie with the bloody shirt - creepy! If KK is some illusion she's conjured up, as Saturn Girl did in Legion Lost, that's even creepier! (I hope it's just a new Karate Kid.)

Was that a Starro ornament in Yera's hair?

Loved Dragonwing's look but not her personality.

I'd expected more criticism of Shady sleeping with Earth Man - maybe in future issues. Tinya just shrugged it off as something foolish. Could Saturn Girl have tweaked everyone's mind to lessen their anger towards him, so the team could function better?

Great story, lots going on.

I am glad to see the Legion Academy.

I will admit to possibly being over-pessimistic in the past.

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Unnecessary speculation:

Condo Arlik was a "marvel"-like mutant.

Perhaps Chemical Kid is a "marvel"-like clone.

Heh, a 'Chemical Clone Saga' could be terri-riffic, depending on how it shakes out.

Who better to be a test tube baby, than a human catalyst?

Perhaps there is an evil company on Phlon that is causing mutations in the children and Condo was just the first.

Chemical Kid is possibly training at the Academy so he can go back to be the new Erin Brokovitch and bring them to justice.

LOL

Yeah but... Mon and Brek??? The combination seems odd to me. I hardly remember them ever entertaining a big friendship. But it#s been some years since i last read v3, so my memory might fail me.

Levitz generally does not seem too prone to handle Polar Boy right now. Since he took over, Brek was hardly ever seen...

Mon and Jo would've been more natural, but since Mon/Shady & Jo/Tinya were so into double-dating and hanging out together, it might be a little more awkward with the status quo having been changed. Maybe Mon never had much of a friendship with Brek before, but they just kind of clicked together when Mon went to pick him up.

I like that new friendships between longtime Legionnaires can pop up after a while when they hadn't been before. Sometimes, this happens in real life, ya know? And with the traumatic split with Shady, it makes perfect sense for this to happen.

Perhaps Mon & Brek are having a casual fling. Mon is on the rebound, after all.

They did meet on Tharr, and then decide to go to Daxam together. That's got gay space cruise all over it! (Unless they invited Brek's Tharran girlfriend, too, and made it a polyamorous space cruise!)

Or maybe they got kicked off of Tharr, because they were steaming up the place, and had to go back to Mon's place.

"Polyamorous Space Cruise." The 31st century revival of "Love Boat."

^If that's true, I guess Shady sensed Mon's latent gayness and decided to dump him proactively!

Poor Brek. Dumped by Sun Boy, being used by Mon-El.
When he comes back to Earth, he'll end up running tearfully into Element Lad's arms or something!

i really wished that had gone into detail of what caused Mon & Shad to break up? but since it seems like Shady is kinda the teams bicycle since Brainy, Superboy, Mon-el and now Earthman has had a ride on her. i guess she'll dump Earthman as soon as he shows signs of him getting intouch of his feminine side.