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

from CBR:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8008

Looks interesting. I notice though that there seems to be a bit of padding on those pages in my opinion.

sexy!

Is that Urk's big brother??

Not loving the designs of any of the new characters (and I say that as a BIG Portela fan) but the writing seems OK (agree about the padding though) and am looking forward to reading this one. I wonder if we'll see cameos by any LSHers or if it's just gonna be LSVers all the way?

I just glanced at it since I prefer to read the actual book, but it seemed to be a fair enough amount of panels to me. Looking forward to it!

That was my first thought as well!

I like the look of this so far!

Hey, its got Mekt, so I'm happy. I can't wait!

It was a great start to the storyline. Maybe a little long, but we definitely got a good sense of the "team" dynmaics ("Do what Saturn Queen says"). I'll be curious to see how long before Mekt slips his leash. The new villains are decent additions to the rogues gallery and I've always had a soft spot for Zymyr (and 'porting battle between he and gates would be interesting).

Can't wait to see who Mekt recruits now that he's free of the Queen's influence for a bit.

I didn't buy the issue, mostly because I'm trying to distance myself a bit from "villain-oriented" books, but I did look through it.

I really like the way Francis Portella draws Ultra Boy.

Interesting read.

Like:
The Hunter
Zymyr
Lighting Lord
Saturn Queen
Questor

Dis-Like:
Sun Killer
Immortus

Luke-Warm:
Akka

Like:
Micro Lad knifed in the back and left dead as a door nail. Never liked him, although I did like his new costume.

Dis-Liked:
The destruction of the Rock of Eternity.

The main thing I disliked about this book is that the main characters are unsympathetic enough that there's no reason to care about them.

huh? Questor and Immortus are now bad guys?!?! oh not a good sign. and where is Sun Emperor? that Timber Wolf was supposed to fight? and Cosmic King?

so spoil it please!

Sun Emperor is in it from the beginning. Didn't see Cosmic King, though.

Questor & Immortus are new characters so they've never been good guys.
Are you confusing them with someone else?

That's Sun Killer.
Sun Emperor has yet to appear.

Questor was the old character I believe the one with teleporting power....wore blue uniform and red cape...blonde hair...chicken out most of time...movie star...

Immortus --- one of the Wanderers....or....Taurus Gang? cn't remember. heh.

Questar was the blond guy with the tassles & Immorto was the guy from the Wanderers.
Different from the two that appear in this issue.

ah....those spellings almost look familar to me. thanks for the correction. I have to wait til the first week of April to get that book. sigh.

I must say the coloring by Javier Mena is a vast improvement over Hi-Fi's ham-fisted pallete in the regular book, IMO.
The hues were subtle when called for and vivid when called for.

How many can Saturn Queen control at one time?
The more she controls, the less complete her control or what?
She's gotta hit a wall of some sort, sooner or later.

I think there's a few hints at the rock that Immortus is actually General Immortus transplanted into a robot body.

I didn't much care for the issue, art or story. Probably wouldn't have bought it, except my CBS owner pulled it for me. Agreed that the characters are unsympathetic. And since when is the Hunter's tracking skill a spaceworthy super power? Why didn't they just kidnap Dawnstar and use her? She's zooming around out there in space on her own somewhere.

I don't care for teleporting characters either. Too deus ex machina. And why would SQ recruit Micro Lad anyway? He's pretty useless as villains go.

While his powers were potentially deadly (since he could zip into someone's body and give them a fatal stroke, which would wipe out big guns like Ultra Boy or Element Lad pretty easily), I don't really get why Micro Lad was ever hanging around with the LSV anyway.

He's not a bank robber or a world-conquerer, he's an Imskian separatist. Any group that doesn't have 'free Imsk from the evil clutches of the United Planets' really has nothing to offer him, by way of advancing his agenda.

It felt like his only reason to be a part of the LSV is so that they could have an evil Shrinking Violet to hang with the evil Saturn Girl, the evil Chameleon Boy, the evil Sun Boy, the evil Cosmic Boy, the evil Lightning Lad, etc, etc.

Sure, maybe he hung out with them to get money, to then channel to the Imskian underground, but he still kinda feels like he was just thrown in there as another warm body...

I don't know, the Levitz depictions of him always showed him with a cruel streak. I remember a lot of gleeful sneering at Violet's condition. While he may have hid behind his cause, I think he was in it because he was rotten and it gave him an excuse. The first time he was recruited by Zymyr he certainly didn't hesitate to take the LSV up on their offer.