Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes LEGION OF SUPER-VILLAINS #1-Preview/Spoilers

If BouncingBear is to be believed, and I have no reason to doubt him, Micro Lad was included so that there could be someone killed without too many fans having a fit.

I think Micro Lad generally hung around the LSV because their agenda was killing Legionnaires, and he wanted to get Shrinking Violet.

I thought the new LSV seemed very bad-assed, and look forward to seeing upcoming developments in this story. I liked the nods to prior continuity (e.g., the off-handed mention of Zuun as a source for the robot, the inclusion of a Sklarian raider).

It took me a while to remember why Saturn Queen's imprisonment wasn't really holding. They should have led off the issue with a panel or two reminding us of the blue creature's passage affecting her.

Yes, because Gods forbid we should have an issue without a major disastor or the gratutitous death of a secondary (or even tertiary) character. But if ssome one had to go it might as well be him. At least he died with a halfway decent costume.

Questor reminded me somewhat of the Coluan villain from the ReBoot days called Big Brain (at least I think that was his name). Y'know, leader of a small gang that tried to take over Winath just prior to Ayla being designated her world's Legion representative?

Anybody else agree?

So it's funny, after making my comment about Micro Lad having been used oddly in the past, I just got this special and the first (and only) words out of his mouth are about how he's all about Imskian liberation!

I laughed to see that, since it was like Paul had read my mind.

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Oh.
She's augmented by the blue baby.
As are the rest, when they need to be.
sigh

I thought it was funny that SQ does all this computer erasing and stuff to hide her and the others involvement and escape from GT, and the first conclusion Jo makes when he gets there is that that things started where SQ was held.
Paul has decided not to hide Jo's intelligence any longer, I guess.

The Rock of Eternity has been blown up before, hasn't it?
Won't it's magical field pull it back together?
If not, since all of the pieces are right there, won't someone just put them back together, like before?
Where's Thunder in all this?
There's one Rock for all the realities, right?
gads

And, I bet Li is one of those immortal 'wisdom' people.
The blue baby is Darkseid using the High Father idea from Saga?

I liked the art but the story is kind of flat but it could get better.
I'm hoping.

My shop didn't put this issue in my bag for me and then it sold out before I could buy it off the shelf!

You'd think that since I've got LSH and Adventure on my pull, they'd put this one in there too. But nooooo.

Now I just have to hope they get some more copies in in the next few weeks. Very annoyed!

I could mail you one, Blacula, but if you're in Australia maybe that could take weeks too?

Thanks for the offer Jim but you're right - mailing things to the most isolated capital city in the world (Perth) does tend to take a while. Don't worry - they'll hopefully get the issue in next week or the one after. If not - I may come begging.

You'd be welcome to my copy. I wasn't too crazy about it.


I thought Canberra was the capital of Australia.

I have liked very much the super-villains special.
Francis Portela's art is very good.
With Sarya dead (for now..) Saturn Queen has turned into my favorite villain.
I suppose that with so many people super villains, all the possible legionnaires were needed, to attack them.
Back to action.....Duplicate Girl, Night Girl, Bouncing Boy, Chamaleon Girl, XS, Black Witch, Blok, Matter Eater Lad, Mon-El, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad.
And probably new legionnarios of the academy.

Jim, Perth is the capital of its state (Western Australia), not of its nation.

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In agreement with this aids many former villains will join the team soon....

Hmmm ... most of the characters in that ad/pinup didn't appear in LSV # 1 ... I wonder how many will show up over the course of the storyline in LSH? (and will Adventure tie in to this story at all?)

I notice, at the lower-right of the pinup (to the right of Tyr) a figure that looks (at least to me) like Terrus. IIRC, Terrus only ever appeared in the LSV story that launched the LSH Baxter title back in the 1980s (the story in which the LSV took over Orando, and Karate Kid and Nemesis Kid died). IIRC, Terrus was never shown doing much of anything; we never found out if he even had any super-powers. Anybody know anything more about him?

I'm pretty sure that in his Who's Who entry, Terrus' power was described kinda like Terra's- able to move & manipulate rock and earth.
IIRC, he also appeared in Legion of 3 Worlds, where he was punched by Blok and turned into a swarm of insects.

Actually Terrus didn't have a Who's Who entry!

Hmmm... now I'm wondering where I read about his powers??

Possibly cmk's help file? As I recall Chaim made up a backstory for him to go in it.

The only thing I remember Terrus doing was making a small asteroid / bit of space debris explode near a Legionnaire (Dawnstar?), stunning them, but he did this by pushing a button, suggesting that he planted an explosive there, and wasn't using any sort of super-power.

He really is such a bizarrely enigmatic character. While the other original character in the LSV War story (Zymyr) plays a major role, Terrus is just sort of there, and never really does anything. I always figured Levitz must have some additional plan for him that never materialized, but...

It was a group of Wildfire, Dawnstar, Mon-El. They were in an asteroid belt. Terrus pushes a button and a group of asteroids explode.

He might have some form of control over earth matter because the debris forms a stream and start streaking directly towards the Legion's ship, an action that didn't look all that natural given the art depiction.

When I interviewed Paul Levitz way back when for The Legion Companion, he had this to say about Terrus:

"Terrus might've been a modernization of a later generation of Scarecrow. If I was naming him Terrus, maybe it had something to do with terror."

This was after I reminded him that his costume looked like that of Scarecrow.

On an unrelated note, that ad has Cosmic King using magnetic powers, which as everyone here should know, is inaccurate. It was established way back in the LSVs first appearance in Superman # 147 (Aug. 1961) that he has transmutation abilities similar to those of Element Lad, although he comes from Venus. Why that was the case instead of the obvious alternative is something that you'd have to ask either Jerry Siegel or Mort Weisinger about. Myself, I think that they just made a mistake, and then stuck with it.

I do vaguely remember that, but I was never sure at the time whether that was forced perspective (us just seeing the asteroids headed towards the ship, and not the ones heading in various other directions) or some sort of gravity manipulating / magnetic bomb (causing the debris to be attracted to the ship).

It never occured to me, at the time, that he was supposed to have super-powers, but it totally makes sense, in retrospect, that he'd use explosives to blast rocks into smaller chunks that he could manipulate with his powers...

Was Ol-Vir seen in this? Or is he even still around?

Been reading the last story arc with the LSV, with Orando and Karate Kid, coupled with his initial appearance in Great Darkness, I seem to like this brat kid. Although by now, he may not be a kid anymore.......