Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Recent Legion-verse sightings in DCU proper

Me too Haggard Lad.
If this was Hollywood then this week's issue of Supergirl just featured the Legion as background 'extras' for the story.
I wonder if they were paid base for their appearance. LOL

You know what they should do with Kandor? Put it on Daxam! Let them interbreed and maybe reduce some of that lead-vulnerability.

I think the Supergirl issue was nothing more than connective tissue in the storyline. It served to connect the capture of Superman with Mon-El's liberation attempt in the next part. Remember, this is the Supergirl part not the Legion part. As the Alex Ross homage at the end showed, they were there to place Supergirl among their ranks for the reader. The story in the issue was sparse but its importance really depends on where Supergirl and the espionage squad go from here.

By the way, I'm another one confused by the re-titling of the storyline. Although I could understand if the title switches once the emphasis is taken from the attack on New Krypton to the Legion vs Brainiac.

Well I just picked up Superman #698 which was the continuation of the Brainiac/New Krypton story and, guess what? Not only weren't the Legion in this entire issue but there was not even a mention of them (except for Tellus)!
Was a waste ... and here I was hoping for my weekly Legion fix. Boooo to the writers!

I too hate how the Legion has been relegated to background characters. For crying out loud, Element Lad alone could turn all the buildings around them to kryptonite or Gold-freakin'-K and this battle's over. Quislet could sweep the room jumping from Brainiac-Terminator to Brainiac-Terminators and they'd all crumble to dust, then everyone could go back to the 31st C and star in their own book again.

future king,

I think you're forgetting a Legionnaire in Superman #698. He was just in the book for a page or two so you might've missed him... Mon-El.

He's not a member yet.

I agree with future king & Omni Craig. This storyline is the same crap we've been enduring since the Lightning Saga. The Legion are treated as background characters. "Brainiac and the Legion Of Super-Heroes?!?"

How does anyone think they will capture new readers interest with characterizations like this?

Here's hoping that the Adventure issues at least have the Legion in them.

What I don't understand is this (recent? maybe not) tendency to expand stories that could be told in one issue into three or more. I understand that they make more money this way, but it really annoys readers. Or at least this reader. It took me about three seconds to read this last issue of Superman. Where is the beef?, I say. I really prefer my comics to have content...

from Your question makes me smile, Doc One: I think that its a very Canadian quotation. For the benefit of our non-Canadian readers, Doc's reference comes from a 1980's Wendy's commercial in which an old lady asks the very same question. What she meant was that there wasn't enough content--in her case, beef in a sandwich--that she was trying to enjoy. Very cool question, Doc One.

The commercial was widely popular in the U.S. as well. Didn't Mondale or somebody later use it during a Presidential campaign?

So what? He's still a Legion character and he's been featured in the Superman book for a year.

This crossover seems to be telling multiple stories at once. This Superman issue focused on Mon-El in the 21st Century and Brainiac & Luthor's plans. In a crossover with multiple stories, they unfortunately can't cover all the stories in each issue.

I enjoyed Superman #698 greatly for what it was - a showcase for Superman and Mon-el to demonstrate what makes them the heroes they are. But I can understand why those who might've gone into the issue hoping for some Legion-goodness would be disappointed.

But still, I enjoyed it. And the Koko scenes were ace!

You know that you are getting old when your slang comes from commercials from the 80's...

Y'know, that rings a bell, too. But I could've sworn at some point that I saw a tv news magazine piece that said the comercial--or maybe the old lady who appeared in it--originated in British Columbia or Alberta.

Ah, well, my memory is increasingly becoming a very fuzzy thing--too many Wendy's burgers, I suppose.

The recent Superman issue had Tellus very importantly in it as well.
He was just thought bubbles, but they were essential thought bubbles.

I loved that Lar is being set up as the hero of the future seeded worlds even though he may not actually be around to do the seeding.
It certainly relates him back to not one but two past DC epics/boots.

I'm really interested to see which world of telepaths it is who was using Tellus to contact Lar.

I was also glad to see Lar realize his place in future history and loved him burning Lex, just a little.

Anyway, Lar IS Legion, to me and I love his spotlighted year in the DCU.

SUPERMAN #698: Wow, I loved that pin-up page of Mon-el holding the bottled city of telepaths after fighting off four groups of aliens who fought for Brainiac in return for dispensations for their own bottled cities.

It's the first time I liked his new uniform, but it's mainly his expression of determination that I really appreciate.

Have any of the named alien groups- the Ulla, the Laroo, the Trago or the Raagin- appeared before in DC stories? They're unfamiliar to me.

What's up with the baboon Kokos? Has this Brainiac always had baboon 'sidekicks'? Their inclusion with the bottled cities had me experiencing LSH boot dissonance. I kept thinking of the world the reboot Koko was left on- it was a jungley planet where he was shown becoming a leader of primates. A reality and 1,000 years away- so not remotely likely that reboot Koko's little fiefdom would wind up in one of Brainiac's bottles. I know that- but I still kept thinking of it. It distracted me from the rest of the issue, as a matter of fact.

It was worth rereading, though- even with the lamentable lack of LSH characters in a storyline that was once called 'Brainiac and the Legion of Super-Heroes'. Thank space they didn't retain that tag, as DC'd be guilty of falsity in advertising. Not exactly an unfamiliar charge for them to face.

Brainiac's little black speedo worn over his tights makes me giggle. It's probably a dark reflection of Superman's 'underwear worn outside his clothes' style that nontraditionalist fanboys love to complain about (have these people seen old circus costumes and are they aware that *that's* what Superman's costume is based on?).

Those races make up Ultra, the Muti-Alien's body.

















And Koko was originally Brainiac\'s alien pet, not just reboot Brainiac 5\'s.

In the race for the Democratic nomination in 1984, Walter Modale (Veep under Carter) was being challenged by Sen. Gary Hart (CO) who promised "new ideas." Mondale questioned the substance of Hart's nonspecific "new ideas" and pinched the phrase from a popular Wendy's commercial. This proved that Mondale was young and hip and watched TV like the rest of us. Yeah! He got the nomination and was wiped out in the Reagan landslide.

Nothing says "young and hip" like stealing catch-phrases from old ladies!

Thanks for posting that Nighty! You know, I don't think I've ever read any of Ultra, the Multi-Alien's features before.

I used to dislike the character because I felt he "stole" Mystery in Space from Adam Strange, who was a favorite of mine. But I have to admit, I find the above pretty groovy!

As for recent Legion stuff in the Superman titles--its pretty good but they're obviously "guest-stars" to the fullest extent, taking a backseat to Superman, Supergirl, Superboy and Mon-El. I really am looking forward to a full-length Legion issue sometime soon where the Legion-ness of the Legion is front and center.

Wow, Robinson even makes Quislet boring (and what's with "Mistress"? He sounds more like K-9 from Dr. Who?):

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/04/01/brainiac-ups-the-ante-in-last-stand-of-new-krypton-2/

Sheesh, that's bad Quislet dialogue writing!

He sounds like a 50's robot. Throwing in the word "fun" doesn't count as characterization.


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I think rouge hit it on the head with K-9. Note the "my sensors" stuff as well.