Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Adventure Comics #8/511: Preview/Discussion (Spoilers!)

31st Century science

Gives a whole new meaning to "she blinded me with science."

This just up on CBR.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=4590&disp=table

Reminds me of the flashbacks from one of Brainy's previous meltdowns.

I hope that isn't the set-up they're going for here.

I think we should petition DC to make the alternate cover the regular cover and the regular cover forgotten.

Regards the preview:

1) Is that first panel a Star Trek rip-off? Replace Spock with Brainy? The preview makes Colu look like Earth with green skins and tacky furniture. I prefer Colu's unique nature depicted previously in Legion and dotLegion.

2) The listing of worlds, so "seeding" I guess is not the new nature, as these worlds already exist?

3) Rift? Blight World? We going back there? I might enjoy that ride.

I like the incorporation of the "Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather" thing from Brainy's early appearances.

Faboo!! I like the nods to the reboot.

Durla 1 and Rimbor were both destroyed by Brainiac? Huh.

Well that certainly explains why it took one thousand years to get from 3 to 5.

Looks like Ayla and Brin are still 'close', whatever that means.

I like Drake's look and still dislike Dawnstar's 'inside the comic and main cover' look.

The 'Brainy kid' scenes with the Coluan kids reminded me a little of the Star Trek scenes where Spock fought the Vulcan kids.

I like Querl's hopeful but rather ineffectual dad! And I'm glad 'mom' isn't the Brainiac 4 monster of the reboot.
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I don't think B4 is ineffectual, he looks very serene. Perhaps beaten down by years of torment brought on by his family connections. What I do like though is that in Legion of 3 worlds someone steals the Brainiac name as a status symbol where as before Brainiac 5 it was shunned. He's doing his job well.

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I thought the exact same thing. Ah well.

Decent issue. Was able to get hold of the variant for $1 more than cover price, so that's pretty cool.

Set up time for the Last Stand of New Krypton.

Still hate Jeckies outfit though.

My comic shop was sold out of the variant cover by the time I got there. They were selling it for TEN BUCKS! He said he could reorder it for me for $9. WTF? Why couldn't they have just given us a decent cover to begin with? Why do we have to pay triple price for a good one?

I too hate Sensor Girl's new costume.

The art was very inconsistent. Some panels were fine. Others were just ugly. Can't believe they split ME Lad's face down the centerfold on one spread.

Got bored with the Car Fax lady's interview with Gen. Lane. Could hardly make myself read it.

I know ME Lad was revealed as "Mitch" in Action. Were Cham and Jeckie revealed there too? I haven't read Action in years.

Why would Star Boy and ME Lad be on this mission when they haven't been active members in years? More details lost to the reboot void I guess. Still, nice to have them back.

Oh, yeah. Ma Kent looked like Aunt May. When did she get so frail and shriveled looking? Is that a new wrinkle, so to speak?

I couldn't agree more Jim! My reaction exactly.

This was just an okay issue, but it was the first new Legion comic I've bought in over a year. I've forgotten how thrilling it is to read a new Legion story. It makes me feel more excited about all the other comics I'm buying, and about life in general.

Haven't read the issue yet, but I have a great owner of my LCS. He knows I buy a lot of comics there and I get my variant covers at cover price.
No, I can't tell you where, he'd kill me then I'd have to come back as Black Lantern Arm Fall-Off Boy and kill you all.

Pretty light issue, despite having three stories.

The first story was pretty cookie-cutter. Not bad, but nothing we haven't seen before. A Rift in Space? Must be Thursday.

The Second story: Holy Exposition Batman! Continuing from the Superman issue where nothing much happened, even less happens here. We get a bit about Brande's will (but not much really) and everyone agrees they're in. Can't wait to get Robinson away from the Legion.

The third story is fine I guess, but deals with a plotline that doesn't interest me. And again not much happens.

It's Adventure Comics without an adventure!

Its a prologue Rouge!

And a crappy one at that.

It felt more like a recap than a prologue.

Just because it's a prologue doesn't excuse pages and pages of talking heads that ultimately don't reveal anything to justify an entire story devoted to them. A good prologue should set up the coming story, identify an approaching threat etc., yet still be able to tell it's own story in the process. Only the first story did this, and even it was pretty bland.

Did anybody else notice that the young Brainiac-5 was depicted in the reBoot version of Brainy's unform? Does this mean that the revised origin doesn't apply to the older version of Brainy (i.e. the one from pseudo-silver age continuity who was the central Legion figure this issue, in the 30th century, at least)?

Secondly, the whole UP-space-station-going-into-the-rift plot line really evoked the senario that set Legion Lost into motion for me. I don't know if this is significant, but it did have impact in terms of raising my expectation that momentuous developments lie ahead (yeah, I know: well duh!).

Anyway, I'm going to trust a statement that was made by Dan Dido somewhere at some point in the last year: namely that Legion fans are going to be very happy in the days to come.