Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Annotated "Legion of 3 Worlds"

When "Legion of Three Worlds" #1 comes out later this month, I plan to do a set of annotations over at my site, the Omnicom .

Legion World, Matthew's "Legion Abstract", and Doug Wolk's "Final Crisis Annotations" are three other sites that I suspect may be interested in doing the same thing (though I haven't asked Matthew or Doug yet).

Has anyone here discussed annotating the series when it comes out? Or, to avoid duplication of effort, could I ask you guys collectively to help me out over there? I certainly don't know everything, and my expertise is mostly with Pre-Crisis (and I plan to come here anyway asking who so-and-so is). Maybe even a joint effort with the annotations published in multiple locations. Wolk's site has more readers in general, but I expect our sites to have more Legion knowledge.

We should at least keep this topic here as a reference site for link to these annotations, n'est pas?

Part 1 of my annotations are up, based on the cover and 5-page preview at Newsarama. This is the easy part; inker Scott Koblish said the annotators will have a meltdown trying to identify everyone on pages 6-15.

http://adventure247.blogspot.com/2008/08/annotated-legion-of-three-worlds-1.html

UPS screw up. No comic book deleveries in Maine today.

PLEASE POST SPOILERS!!!!!!!

The big Pérez boast in #1? Already? Jajaja, I'd say. And I'm suddenly infatuated with spoilers.

Klordny, you have you work cut out for you.

I'm simultaneously looking forward to it and dreading it. I'll post back here later tonight when I'm done with the entire issue, then you guys can help fill in the blanks with what I've missed or gotten wrong.

I think it'll be fun hunting Easter eggs and identifying aliens.

Well I've got the entire first issue done. There were some really obscure entries (like the planet Taltar, from ADV 368, which featured the Mutiny of the Super-Heroines), some easter eggs in the portrait gallery (hint: translate the interlac), the return of Myg, and even Proty if you look hard enough.

Plus, of course, the maximum squee-age at seeing group portraits of all three Legions.

http://adventure247.blogspot.com/2008/08/annotated-legion-of-three-worlds-1.html

Ok, I give up, where's Proty?

On the page where Superboy-Prime starts burning the statutes, and before holo-Olsen mentions the LSV, there is a panel where holo-Olsen asks SBP if he's back for more information on the Legion. Just to the right of Olsen is Proty. The Interlac below the figure spells "pr," with the rest being cut off (though shouldn't the p be capitalized, and have a different symbol?). In the same panel are Stone Boy and Color Kid.

The reboot Legion's belts are wrong. Their star is supposed to be shooting downward.

Michael, just checked it out and it rocked my face off! I didn't realize there were a few things I missed!

Awesome!

Thanks for this work guys.

Being a relatively new LSH fan, joining with the most recent version, the comic is pretty good without knowing all this stuff it does add a real texture to the universe to their work.

Although Taltar was represented, the Taltarians were never shown as green skinned before. what's up with that? screw up?

Yeah, I wondered about that. Maybe they have immigrants from other planets who want to live in a matriarchal society - or maybe they always had mixed skin colours and it was just never represented. Green always makes me think of Coluans (although we've seen other green-sskinned races) and I wonder if there are Coluan malcontents who leave the planet to settle elsewhere.

I like that idea. Maybe their color differs as other races are brought in to Taltar, almost for breeding purposes. That could be a pretty groovy story!

I wonder if Lady Memory has any Coluan blood in her.

Hello Michael - I went to your site -

http://adventure247.blogspot.com/

and did the search engine into trying to find the answers on Jeph Loeb/Chris Pachecho on absolute power from Superman/Batman 14 to 18 and I could not find it in your site. Is there a site where I can find out who and which legion members actually appeared in those issues?

See for yourself -

SB #14 . SB #15 . SB #17 . And, SB #18 .

thanks!!! youre a life saver!

Any thoughts on where this story arc fits in the DCU. The 'adult' Legion seemed to harken back to the very early Superman adult Legion walk on issues. Is this one of the 52 Earths or what?

Annotations for issue 2 are up.

This was a lot easier than issue 1.

What's the reference for Taltar recruiting Spider Girl?

The 2995 Sourcebook says "Gained ability of rapid-growth prehensile hair through mutagenic experiments of Double-X Liberators on Taltar. Applied for Legion membership, was rejected for lack of control. Recruited into Legion of Super-Villains by Laevar Bolto."

It's not 100% canonical, but it's the next best thing, just like the "Who's Who in the LSH". Both books introduced information that had not appeared in the comics but were later referenced.