Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Recent Legion-verse sightings in DCU proper

The Shooterboot had Legionnaires from the future coming back to recruit Cos.
But that seemed out of step, somehow.

The Legion has always taken time travel out of sequence, though, with Supergirl and Superboy both being in the Legion at the same time.
At least, when there WAS a Superboy and a Supergirl.

That's actually something that bugs me all the time, is how often artists forget to draw the flight rings.

It's a tiny insignificant detail, I know, but it always makes me grumble.

As I said, perhaps the future Legion has even better time travel technology than the 'current' Legion. (Indeed, since the current Legion has just busted fragments of a time machine, that got blown into tiny fragments just a few issues ago while Brainy was attempting to hotwire it, that wouldn't be terribly unlikely...)

My assumption, as stated, was that the future dudes can punch right through the flashpoint barrier using their superior technology, not that it 'went away.'

Considering how many team members there are in the Legion, I'm a bit tired of seeing the founders *all* the time...

It's not a certainty, but it sure looks like XS appears in TEEN TITANS #6, using the name and ID of a cop.

She's focused on Bart Allen, Kid Flash and uses 'sprocking' and other 31st century lingo (of Earth 247, anway)-- but the real 'tell' is a 'not supposed to have happened yet' sentence. Oh, and some files/thingies with Interlac written on them.

The panels reminded me of the Espionage Squad usage last year in the Superman books. Jenni hasn't appeared (or even been mentioned) in the LSH books in quite some time. Not since that odd back-up with the tiles in a temple. Or shrine. Or whatever it was.

Maybe she's conducting a one-woman mission that the Legion doesn't even know about? Or in collusion with Brainy, perhaps?

We've been told in several instances that time travel isn't 'possible' in the new DCU. I give that about five minutes, but until then- it might be kind of cool if Jenny is the only character that can time travel with impunity.

She seems older... maybe this connects with the older founders (if that's really who they are) in Grant Morrison's Superman title.

Good catch Mystery Lad! I hadn't read that issue yet.

but....the gerater question is.... what's she doing there at the present time? if she knows that Bart is supposed to "pop" up in 8 years in the future, then she should be there in 8 years, instead of present time. so whats up with her?!? is she watching Barry Allen as well? hmm....good mystery indeed.

Hmmm.... Not sure about XS, she looks more like Shvaughn Erin to me and she is a cop.

*poof*

Brainy 5, Proty, and a time bubble in this week's TINY TITANS #49.

Jocelyn made another appearance but I blanked out totally on which book did she appear...yikes!!

SUPERBOY #7. She's guarding _______ after Superboy rescued her from _________.

yes thats the one! thanks. meanwhile, check out another interview on the Culling plus the beautiful cover of Teen Titans Annual - with the Legion Losters on front and all in white uniforms:

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/04/10/writer-scott-lobdell-on-“the-culling”-crossover

enjoy.

Doesn't look like XS to me. Skin is awfully light and the hair is wrong. Maybe it's new-DCU Sun Girl? (Hair isn't quite right for her either, but it's as close.) The original was a villain, but was from the future and appeared in Teen Titans.

Edit: I found a scan of the Superboy issue. It looks a lot more like XS in that issue and cant be Shvaugn or Sun Girl.

Jocelyn appears in Superboy #8 again, colored as in the previous issue of Superboy (that is, plausibly like XS). She also refers to herself as Jocelyn in a thought balloon, which could mean she is not XS but could also be bad writing.

The Blight, from DnA's Legion of the Damned storyline, attack Tamaran in this week's Red Hood and the Outlaws #10.

OOh, the Blight are wicked scary. Looking forward to that.

Justice League Dark #10 - Mordru is mentioned by Constantine while he explains the history of the Books of Magic.

Not exactly a recent Legion sighting--but here is a tantalizing glimpse of a Legion-might-been-plotline from Comic Box Commentary: http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com/2012/08/landry-walker-interview-whatever.html

There can be little doubt that had it seen print, Walker's Supergirl's Cosmic Adventures in the llth Grade would have been an awesome and fun addition to Legion mythos...

Here's something interesting--

In Superman #0, the story is that it's about Jor-El finding out that Krypton is going to perish, with a "Doomsday" cult in Kryptonian government, lead by someone called "The Eradicator," trying to silence him, on the same day he learns that Lara is pregnant with baby Kal-El.

What's interesting is when Jor-El questions one of the soldiers of this cult, as she dies, she says that "Entropy comes for us all." As the two watch, we see that Superman, in a black and silver costume, is watching them on the planet Krypton.

This continues a trend from the other two present-day Super-titles--with Superboy playing a role in Supergirl being able to leave Krypton and Supergirl on ancient Krypton in the middle of the war that ultimately dooms the planet.

So you consider all this time travel, and the usage of "entropy," I'm thinking that at some point in the next year, we're going to have some sort-of cross-over that involves the Super-Family and possibly the Legion fighting the Time Trapper on Krypton.

That would certainly be interesting, particularly if the temporal shenanigans force Superman into a Sophie's choice, of possibly saving Krypton from destruction, but, in so doing, rewriting the timeline according to some agenda of the Time Trappers... (Which means he might feel compelled to allow, or even actively *cause* Krypton's 'fated' destruction, to preserve Earth and / or other worlds that will be destroyed in the new 'Krypton survived' timeline!)

Although, given that Superboy has met the Legion Lost crew, it might be problematic if Superboy meets the regular Legion, who currently believe the Legion Lost crew to be dead. (Then again, this might be the event that dissuades them of that notion, or the Legion Lost crew might be the Legionnaires who are involved in this 'un-destruction of Krypton' storyline.)

If nothing else, it could make an interesting fanfic...

Justice League Dark Annual - Nick Necro spends three days in a cave with Mordru's skeleton, and we learn that Mordru and Merlin formed an uneasy alliance to divine the location of Books of Magic.

Here's an interesting thing from Action Comics #15:

This issue is basically laying the cards on the table and revealing what this book has been about this whole time and what this ending arc will be about: Superman fighting a rogue fifth dimensional imp named Vyndktvx who is using an Anti-Superman Army and his powers to try to destroy Superman at every point in his life.

One segment of this is Superman being chased by Vyndktvx and the Anti-Superman Army on a post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun has turned red. He makes it to a Fortress of Solitude in the Amazon, and he makes three calls.

One of them is to Krypto, making a dog whistle sound, but the other two are interesting to me and this board's interest.

First, he says, "This is Superman calling the Legion of Super-Heroes on the time wave!" Which means we'll probably at least see Morrison's adult founding members again in this arc. Cool--Morrison's Legion two-parter was pretty much the best Legion story of the New 52 so far.

The second part's where it gets interesting. "This is Superman calling Comet and the Wanderers!"

Comet is probably the new take on Captain Comet that Morrison established back in #10-12 of Action, but the Wanderers name is interesting. Isn't that what the surviving members of the Reboot Legion named themselves after Legion of Three Worlds?

Adym, from the Legion Lost series, ties to Captain Atom of the current day universe is revealed in The Fury of Firestorm #15 where his origin is revealed.

Action Comics #16 has some heavy Legion stuff in the main story, having the Adult Legion (which Morrison's seems to be a blend of the Retroboot and the Reboot, with the snake-like Sensor) AND a Tales of the Legion of Superheroes back-up with art by Chris Sprouse.

Basically, I want either Morrison or, more likely, Sholly Finch on the Legion title, like, yesterday.