Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Preview LEGION #11

From ComicBook.com: http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/07/12/exclusive-dc-comics-preview-legion-of-superheroes-11/
Star Boy's rescue squad lands on Elia!

Good thing that they're there!
How can the UP risk the lives of Brainy and Dreamy?
They're their planets' treasures and have worked to save the UP many times.
The UP isn't thinking very straight.

Well this preview is certainly a good remedy for the solicits (which make that group sound like they're barely on par with the Inferior Five)...I really like when Legionnaires use their powers in creative ways like this

In other news, WHEN IS THOM GONNA GET OUT OF THAT SPROCKING CHAIR?! Seriously, he has been back for over a year in real time and he is still on the wounded list?

Yet Polar Boy can get a new hand made as easy as walking to the corner store...it's just pointless, and Thom's recovery period (recovery from what??) has been dragged out way longer than it ever needed to be....

Thom had mental injuries as seen in Adventure Comics and Lo3W. He may be using the chair as a mental crutch because he "feels" unsure of himself.

I love the use of Comet Queen's powers in this preview. I've finally found a use for her in the Legion. She was a good pick for Bouncing Boy's plan.

The preview does indeed look good. I'm wondering how they are all able to fly since this is a non sanctioned mission and they should not be wearing Legion Flight rings? I can't wait to see Comet Queen, Duplicate Damsel and BB kick some Dominator Disk Licker ass

Except the JSA doesn't exist on the current Earth anymore, so how does the whole "Starman" thing fit in now? We had Ultra Boy reference his time in the asylum, so that's still there somehow. Unless the Legion still 'see's the pre-Flashpoint history from their vantage point, which would be even more messy.

He's probably gone crazy just from trying to figure out his own continuity!

Anyway, I thought this issue was pretty decent, even if the Legionnaires got taken out way too easily. Probably the best cover of the series so far! And "spacetrash" is officially my new favorite insult.

Looks very nice.

(Feh. I can't even remember how many issues behind I am right now.)

BAH! Since when does Dream Girl need to be rescued! Thom will ruin everything!

Fun issue. Portela did his usual nice job, and I liked this Guinaldo guy too. Thom's team came across as competent. Mon-El had his strongest moment as leader. Nura and Lu came across well. What is Comet Queen's motivation?

A quick read, but a lot going on.

This was an action packed roller coaster issue. Thomas dis a good job leading the rescue team until the betrayal changed things. Mon-el isn't completely off the hook with his answer to Cosmic Boy. He could have sent any legionnaire in if he really wanted to, even with the diplomatic hang-ups. There 's a lot of stuff that has to happen next issue to resolve this crisis. I for one will be on the edge of my seat to see hoe Paul Levitz sorts this out.

Isn't the Dominion making clones of the Legion?

If so, it would be easy to assume she wants her very own Bouncing Boy.

Or... she could be pulling a Mentalla.

...

You know, I just realized, but both Legion traitors, Nemesis Kid (the real one) and Mentalla (the fake one) had the same color scheme.

Wow, this issue was AWESOME!

Luornu particularly kicked ass, but everyone got a chance to shine....and I am gonna be interested to see where Paul's going with Comet Queen because I doubt very highly that it's as simple as it appears to be. At a guess I'd say the Dominator guy with the DNA strand on his disk has something to do with it...

Good cliffhanger!

Yanno who else uses that color scheme?

Matter-Eater Lad.

Dun dun dun dun...

I read 10-11.

I really really REALLY liked how well Levitz wrote Lu here. I will go so far to say that this is the best he has ever written her.

The solicits for these issues enraged me awhile back but the issues themselves have done the characters justice.

As for Comet Queen -something hasn't been revealed yet. I think she will be innocent.

I'm not sold on Not-Dawnstar and Not-Saturn Girl yet. I have a long history of having a problem with replacements for beloved characters.

I think that the new telepath recruit had her powers used against her and took control of Comet Queen. I can't believe Paul spent all this time building her character up to then have her just be a traitor or pull an Mentella...

And Portela did a FANTASTIC job as usual; I'm going to miss him when Kollins comes on board.

If Lu prime/original is knocked out, are all her bodies knocked out? Not sure why all her duplicates seem to be constantly defeated at the same time.

jdpinball, I'm operating under that assumption as well. Cargg, I think expediency in artistic storytelling is the culprit there.

What happens to Lu's copies seems to differ with the boot, I guess.
I'd hate it if hitting one means hitting all, though.
That would pretty much defeat the purpose, especially the trijitsu.

It didn't occur to me that Comet Queen was under mind control, but now that I think about it it's obvious.

All in all it's the best issue we've had in a long while, except that I thought Brainy was a little bit out of character. And what's this retcon about the force field belt? There were points in the past where it was very obvious he invented it, including where he tried to give Supergirl an extra one.

It was brought up in the recent Secret Origins run. Brainy refers to his belt as a family secret, and not duplicate-able, as the power source is unique. (Mentioned in issue 2 and again in issue 4, as both Phantom Girl and Circadia Senius suggest making more of them. It may also get mentioned a few more times. Paul really seemed to be hammering that point home...)

Paul later has Brainy mention it in the main Legion title, as Questor blasts him with a weapon that 'should punch through any shield' and Brainy notes that his shield is 'lost technology' and a 'family secret.' (Issue 12.)

It does answer the question of why Brainy doesn't make one for everyone, I suppose, but I would prefer if it was something more Brainy-specific, like that the quantum energy field is wicked unstable and requires constant micro-adjustments to shield him from specific things from microsecond to microsecond, and that anybody with less than a 12th level intellect couldn't keep up with the changing variables and would end up getting fried or something.

In the last dotREBELS, IIRC, Bedard had Lyrl Dox make the shield belt, or possibly Dox, but I think it was Lyrl.

Lyrl is revealed to be a 12th level, but we find out towards the end of the series that Dox is only, and bitterly, a 10th level.

He was forced genetically by his father, the original Brainiac, to be less intellegent than his father, therefore less of a threat to him.

We have a Brainy issue coming up, Issue Zero, I think, so maybe Levitz will clarify how that who thing rests in the DCnU.

I always assumed it was something like that--like a Green Lantern ring with very high requirements.

Paul once mentioned that Dream Girl could (rather crudely) use the belt because she was one fo the Legion's best scientific minds. Can anyone dredge up that letter column?

Yes, I remember a scene where Dreamy grabs the belt from someone; annoyed that they didn't know how to use the belt after so many years of watching Brainy use it? Although that could no longer be in continuity

This was a good issue although the code names of the new recruits are just stupid...

And does anyone else think its time for DD to come back on the team full time? Paul's done a great job of re-establishing her.