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Not Titan!

Xanthu?

Xanthu it is!

Elia, Xanthu is the site of a conference on the Great Collapse, per a textpage of v4 #1!

Not sure if "Elia" had been used for the Dominion homeworld at that point or not.

Wow! Cool!

Name two of Spark's childhood friends who are NOT related to one another. That is, if you know of any twins, the two twins will count as one correct answer only.

Hegga & Garla

[Y'know, the last LotL #2 question wasn't THAT long ago ]

I was pretty sure you'd get it anyway, considering your for Spark and with that, I pass the question over to you!

Arg, suckered!

Okay, picture-round time. Name this character:

Chameleon. He was shapeshifted at that time.

Yeah, 'twas Reep (did you even have to check? )

Your go

As long as it's Postboot...

Which two Legionnaires were shown (Postboot) to be playing a board game?

(There were actually three, shown in two instances; the board games are similar though possibly not identical).

This seems like the type of thing that might have occurred in the background of a panel during the PMS era, so I will guess... Sensor and Chameleon?

You have one Legionnaire right.

Funnily enough, the only games I remember from PMS were video games (is that the era after Waid left, starting roughly around the Emerald Violet storyline up to just before DNA arrived?)

Yes - PMS is the Peyer, McCraw, Stern era after Waid left (Emerald Vi to DnA). An extreme low point in the Reboot's history IMO - although the descent was gradual and in fact some of the early Legionnaires stories during this period were still very good.

Until the teams reunited in LoSH #100 it wasn't so much the writing that annoyed me during this period as it was the plot decisions - Lori, Lori, Lori, too many new members and, of course, killing off Gim - but after LoSH #100 even the writing turned to crap IMO.

I heartily agree with you. The writing was still decent towards the start (Gates, Spark, Brainiac 5, Ultra Boy, Kinetix, XS, M'Onel, Chameleon, Star Boy, Shvaughn Erin among others were very well-written IMO) and the buildup to, and conclusion of, the Mordru/Eye arc remains one of my faves.

Besides Lori and the loss of Gim, I'm also perplexed at the inclusion of Monstress and the snake-ifying of Sensor. I love Monstress, but only because of DNA's take on her (and frankly, sevaral others like Kid Q, Mysa or even Particon performed better vs. Mordru).

Post-100, well... The Pernisius storyline was jsut *meh*, the 40th anniversary two-parter didn't do much for me, the Elements of Disaster was okay, and the Dark Circle was pretty awful. Zombifying Kinetix AGAIN and "mutating" Andromeda yet not having her rejoin was baffling. The only things I liked were Brainy's forcefield becoming internal (something DNA would later use to great effect), the two-parter vs. the Fatal Five in LSH120-121, and the founders in Legionnaires 75. The Summer World issue in Legionnaires 77 was decent, too.

Where can I read up on Brainiac 5's internal forcefield and Andromeda's mutation?

SS, Andromeda was "changed" by a space anomaly. She first enetered it in LSH v4 100; you get additional glimpses in Legionnaires 58-60; she exits it in LSH v4 104; and demonstrates her new powers in various issues of the Dark Circle story arc that takes place in Legionnaires 62-65 and LSH v4 106-108.

Brainiac 5 was also changed by the same space anomaly. His forcefield becomes an innate power, and under DNA he would become able to use it to form simple shapes. I would recommend checking out Legion Lost and the Legion series after that for some very cool uses of said forcefield; particularly the Legion 1 wherein he creates multiple smaller fields to reflect multiple attackers' shots back at them.

I assume you mean the original Legion Lost, not at all related to the current series?

^ Yes he does.

P.S. Andromeda's mutation is not at all as interesting as it sounds. All it mainly did was make her lose a few feet of height and start wearing cargo pants.

A total "What was the point?" plot move from the dark time of the Reboot.

Thanks IB and Blacula. I would ask more but I suppose it's best to return you to your regularly scheduled trivia question...

Re Andromeda's "mutation", the only thing of any interest whatsoever were the light powers she exhibited in one panel in Legionnaires 64. It wasn't explored any further.

Other anomaly changes include -

Gates and Brainiac 5 becoming friends (some people say Gates' personality changed, but I argue that it didn't. It was BRAINY who changed).

Brainiac 5 became much nicer and more emotionally competent.

Kinetix withdrew into her mind and became very subdued (thankfully, this was reversed in LSH 113 by explaining she was merely in awe of the Anomaly)

M'Onel and Umbra developed a closer friendship. M'Onel also collapsed after exiting the Anomaly, but this wasn't followed up on and it didn't seem as though his powers were affected at all.

Re the trivia question,

Clues:

- One of Chameleon/Sensor is a correct answer
- Both instances I'm thinking of occured during the DNA run
- Of the two instances I mentioned, there was one Legionnaire who was shown playing in both Instance 1 and Instance 2

Chameleon and Invisible Kid?

One right.

Umbra/Ferro are one pair, from the Secret Files issue.

I'd assume then the other is Chameleon/Umbra from a Legion Lost issue?

Correct, Future! Back to you.