Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes legion Lost #3 previews & spoilers

two links:

#1 -
http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/11/legion-lost-3-comic-excerpt

#2 - from DC blog source -
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/

I love the 'ironic T-shirt' on page six. Hilarious!

I'm calling it now...
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">...that yellow beastie with the wings that Red Rage is fighting inside the mall is Yera!</span></span>

And maybe, on that last page at DC,
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">. . . the panel below the glowing Tellus and Dawny, is a gate being reformed for Gates to pop out of! I can only hope. sigh</span></span>

Wow. The art is much better in this issue than it has been previously. Good show!

Tellus the hypnotist. Glad to see his telepathy being put to good use. I don't remember my Preboot issues that well, but it seems to me that Tellus' telepathy is more powerful now.

Love the interaction between the Legion guys. Wildfire and Tyroc seem to be building a budding friendship.

Given my own preference for describing Tellus' telepathy in oceanic / aquatic / sea-of-sensation terms, I love that Fabian has gone that route too!

And given my preference for Brin's hero monicker being more than just a code name, I'm happy with the direction Fabian is taking Timber Wolf in, too.

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But...

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">The monster doesn't look yellow on the cover. More like light purple.</span></span>

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Oh, I agree with you that his name didn't really make much sense in the beginning but fairly early on the artists started to play with Drake's image and the writers began changing his power set, and not just to make him more like Wolverine.
I think they did it to trade in on his name, which I think is a great one.
Fabian might be going that way too, because wolves and werewolves are so 'in' right at the moment.
I think.

As to the isolation, they aren't there because of Wildfire's contamination, imo, but rather, because of the other's possible and even probable contamination, whether they can actually contract the disease or not.

The virus might not be easily 'disenfected' from anything, either.
If the Psion knew his business, he would have made the disease capable of traveling multple ways and in an encapsulated form, which can not only be very hard to destroy/ but also, hard to detect.

We have bacteria and virus' that are native to Earth and here right now, that are both.

Drake's energy might destroy them, and the Psion contagion, too, but maybe not without injuring or killing the host, as well.

I'm just terribly excited about the possibility that Fabian will use Drura/Infectious Lass at some point, to deal with things.

I don't at all love that the young man who was exposed to zuunium and special radiation by his dad to develop super-human agility and strength has been retconned over the last four decades to be a clone of wolverine, with claws, heightened senses, feral animal instincts, etc. but, it is what it is.

He's been an ironic Wolverine clone for decades now, so changing him back to a non-animalistic, non-werewolf-y sort of Brin would be rightly seen as a retcon by those who have never known the original Brin, who was more likely to be characterized as an android than a wolf.

I'm not a huge fan of characters being re-characterized in 'shorthand' (Rokk having a 'magnetic personality,' for instance, or Garth becoming a 'hothead'), so the idea that Timber Wolf is becoming increasingly 'wolf-like' in characterization feels lazy to me.

I'd be similarly annoyed if Star Boy was re-characterized as a Jersey-Shore-esque 'celebrity' just because he's got the word 'Star' in his codename.

Still, the Timber Wolf-as-Jojo-the-Dog-Faced-Boy ship sailed long ago, and the last twenty years worth of Legion writers were all on board, so it's far too late to quibble over, I suppose.

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Does it really matter in the end, though? Yera is a shapeshifter, so she can change her color.</span></span>

I too prefer Timber Wolf to remain super-acrobatic and super-strong rather than Wolverine-lite...especially when giving him enhanced senses kind of makes Dawnstar less special. That might not be such a big deal in a team of 20+ people where you can have them mostly on separate squads, but when your whole team consists of 5-7 people (depending on how long it takes Yera and Gates to come back), it kind of IS a big deal.

Besides which, if there is a desperate need for animalistic senses on the team, I don't see why Yera can't do that to a degree. So now we end up with potentially half a team of trackers, but the one thing that Brin could have added (combat speed and dexterity which is very different to Dawnstar's flight speed) is given up.

Ultimately the characterisation matters more to me than the power set, and I do love how he's been characterised thus far, but it's still a shame.

I would also have liked Tyroc to have his power defined as local area reality manipulation channelled through sonics, rather than just sonics. Again though, if we have to give that up for him to get the spotlight that he has had recently, I can live with that change.

You know, something else that just occurred to me...I kind of feel sorry for Dawny in this team. Tellus, Wildfire and Tyroc can all fly without the encumbrance of wings. Gates has the 'get somewhere fast' angle covered, and he can take passengers. Timber Wolf (and possibly Yera) can track prey. Wildfire can survive in uninhabitable environments. And all of them have other things they bring to the table.

Added to all of the above, Dawny excels in an outer space environment, and I don't get the idea these guys are gonna be having outer space adventures anytime soon. I wonder if this will become a plot point for her - she's always been quite rightfully proud and a little defensive about her abilities, and her perfectionism has already been noted in the series. I wonder how frustrating it is gonna be for her when her uniqueness in the Legion is all but gone now? Thoughts?

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Never mind sending Wildfire... can't they send him an *email*? Or call him on a cell phone?

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<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Then you are going to hate the upgrade to his powers this issue... half-assed odd take on Wolverine's claw action</span></span>

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">LOVE that Yera is back!!! Sort of. And she turns out to be the main monster on the cover.</span></span>

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Well, this is about the ugliest cover I ever saw and Timber Wolf's exploding claws are about the lamest and grossest power enhancement ever.

And was the rdrayjj alien supposed to be eating the winged alien? Ewww!

Yeah, I'm not sure how fond I am of the fact that Yera's been killing and eating people to try and reform her DNA. Even if she was "feral" and acting on instinct, it's still a pretty heavy deal to attach to her character.

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Oh, I understood that, NLL. I was actually responding to cleome, and I meant to point out that the color shouldn't be taken as evidence for or against that monster being Yera, since she's a shapeshifter.

Apologies if it seemed like I was commenting on your response, and thanks for taking the time to explain!</span></span>