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ADVENTURE COMICS #4

Written by Geoff Johns
Co-feature written by Geoff Johns & Michael Shoemaker Art by Jerry Ordway Co-feature art by Clayton Henry Cover by Jerry Ordway and Francis Manapul Variant cover by Francis Manapul

The return of Superboy! Superboy-Prime, that is!

The grasp of BLACKEST NIGHT knows no bounds, and it is now at the doorstep of Superboy-Prime. Believe it or not, Prime has met his match. The Black Lanterns know his deepest, darkest secrets and force Prime to feel emotions he's long discarded.

Plus, in the Legion of Super-Heroes co-feature, Dawnstar is on the trail of the person – or people – who have been causing so much trouble for the Legion. But does she get too close to the truth? Her Legion teammate Wildfire comes to her rescue, but are the duo able to discover just who is behind this villainous plot to destroy the known universe?

Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. For every 10 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Jerry Ordway and Francis Manapul), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Francis Manapul and renamed and renumbered ADVENTURE COMICS #507). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.

On sale November 18 - 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US



R.E.B.E.L.S. #10

Written by Tony Bedard
Art by Andy Clarke
Cover by Kalman Andrasofszky

It's an oversized BLACKEST NIGHT tie-in issue as the Black Lanterns fight the Sinestro Corps with the R.E.B.E.L.S. caught in the middle!

While super-jerk Vril Dox and his team of renegades plot to stop Starro the Conqueror's rampage, they're forced to confront this major battle raging in space! Dox is in trouble, too, because these particular Black Lanterns wanted to kill him when they were alive!

On sale November 11 - 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US



SUPERMAN #694

Written by James Robinson
Art by Javier Pina
Cover by CAFU
Kicking off a new 5-issue storyline that will rocket readers all the way to the monumental SUPERMAN #700! Mon-El makes his triumphant return to Metropolis with a new look and a determined manner just in time to combat the unstoppable fury of Bizarro. But with his powers phasing in and out, will the new Mon-El be able to save his city even with the help of the Guardian and Metropolis’s Science Police?
On sale November 25 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

I think they're naively turning the s-shield into a nazi like symbol. It's probably a marketing thing, but what are they thinking?

You can't have ubiquitous symbols of uber-power without some sort of backlash, no matter how many kittens you rescue.

"Look, it's Super-Mon!"

I'm sorry...somebody had to say it.

again...



We need a local board artist to get some dreadlocks on that kid. A metal drum would be good too.

That outfit makeover is really only so-so.
The blue underpants, somehow, look sillier than Superman's red underpants, if that's possible.

I'm so loving dotREBELS.

dot REBELS is the best Legion book out there right now. And Mon-El seems like looking at Superman's clothes in a white board after fixing its image at your retinas for 30 seconds. Negative, you know?

Yah, mon. Go wid it.

What were they thinking on that Mon-El cover?!?!

Hopefully since Dawny and Wildfire are the focus of the story, they'll get fleshed out a bit beyond their appearances so far.

Where does it say that?!

why are we not over the pants-over-the-tights look by now?

Yeah. One of many things I like about the Legion is how many of the characters were over that underwear-on-the-outside look... (And Mon-El at least did a good job of hiding it with the untucked shirt.)

Ugh. I am just not digging that new look for Mon-El. He just doesn't look right in the skin tight duds.

Don't like it either. I always liked the high-collared jacket because it made him look a little more formal, reserved and older - and it was his own look, not a reverse-Supes.

But R.E.B.E.L.S. looks like it's really picking up! I was waiting for the TPB, but maybe I'll go back to the pamphlet.

The longer Mon-El is out the Phantom Zone, the more they are changing the character. Soon he is going to join the JLA. Ugh! Mon-El needs his real outfit back and get back into the Zone before they totally screw up his continuity.

whoops hit quick quote instead of edit.

With the grey in his hair and the squint on his face he looks like he's in his 50's.
I always wanted to see him that age, well, since I hit 50, anyways.


And maybe, instead of looking at the blue shorts as underpants, we should think of them as swim wear.

Seriously though, how long Mon is out of the Zone is probably fairly necessary to his timeline.

He doesn't have the time with Superboy that he had originally, nor has he had his months as Valor.
He HAS to have something, some experiences, to form his personality, his point of view, his heroism.
He has to have something to hold onto for a thousand years, give or take a few months.

Give the kid a break, let him make a few friends and kiss a couple of girls.
He'll be a Legionnaire soon enough.
ummmm
Sort of.

Does he actually have a continuity? Seems as long as they throw him back into the Phantom Zone or some such and get him out again 1000 years or so in the future, they can pretty much do with him as they want.

Actually, I always thought what set Mon-El apart as a Legionnaire (pre-TMK) was that he was not a hero in the 20th century. He was an explorer who got thrust into being a hero by a twist of fate (and a boulder of lead.) He was yanked out of the Phantom Zone, given a treatment for an incurable and fatal disease and set to work. Over the years he was portrayed as increasingly moody and depressed, culminating in the Levitz/Lightle issue where he nearly kills himself rather than return to the zone. Of course TMK swept all that under the rug when they decided that he was another square jawed hero and it was Eltro Gand that was the downer (even before the Valor retcon.) Unfortunately, succeeding versions of Lar have always added in the 20th century hero version which I think took away what made the original unique.

Realistically, no matter how long Lar is on Earth, or what he does there, his time in the Zone is going to leave him with plenty of emotional scares.

I'd like to wish him well now, and in his far, distant future.

Well, he did say he had yet to learn how to swim, so maybe that's the point of the new costume.

Awww... I think it's cute.

Of course, I think whatsisface in the blue (or were they black?) jeans is cute, too. I think it would be hilarious if the entire Legion started wearing jeans into battle because they thought it was all cool and retro and stuff.

[runs away and doesn't come back for six months]

Oh, and I don't care what anyone says: that Blackest Night ring logo was totally cribbed from a lost volume of Sandman where Death opened a sno-cone stand.

[fine... fine... eight months. you'll miss me. don't deny it.]

Yeah, not digging the skin-tight look on Mon-el. And I find a certain irony that the book is written by James Robinson, who popularized one of the great non-spandex-wearing heroes, Starman. Bring back the puffy tunic!

Yeah. The art is doing nothing for that look.

Note to everyone, ever. If you're going to change someone's look, *make it better!*

I have no problem with characters changing their clothes once a decade (given that I sometimes change clothes three times in a day), but changing a fairly unique outfit into what every other character is wearing anyway *and drawing it unappealingly,* is just inexcusably sloppy.