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Stile86, thanks for the Interlac translations! You're welcome. It's a fun bit of the art that I enjoy figuring out. Mekt is defeated not just by Ayla but apparently by combination with a stray real lightning bolt from the ongoing storm, hence his comments "the storm betrayed me". Very poetic and fitting in with his many references to the storm over the past issues. Still a bit convenient plot-wise. It does suggest a few options:- ... Or that Mekt is self destructive and it’s part of his subconscious that led to his own failure rather than kill his sister. I really like this idea. As for Projectra and her single execution, I can easily imagine a scene where she tuns towards the other villains and the other legionnaires jump in front telling her that's enough, saying she should leave them in their custody, and her responding very well but she wants them off her planet without delay and never wants to see them again. It’s a possibility. I’d have liked to have seen that as the real splitting point between Jeckie and her colleagues. Of course, if she had wanted to execute all the LSV, it might have led to some issues when Sensor Girl was unmasked (not that Levitz had any of that planned at this stage). Even as I suggested it I thought that I would have liked to have seen such a scene instead of theorising about it. If I remember right in the later V3 stories she returns through mystical means, not technological. Perhaps they were also used when Orando is returned in the V4 FYL era (if that is considered true in your personal continuity). With one of the powerspheres destroyed by Val, I had wondered how Orando completed the journey. Perhaps there was a mystic push there too. The White Witch has spells of similarity, and perhaps that’s available to someone on Orando too. That Jeckie didn’t mystically transport the others back immediately feeds nicely into your point of simply wanting rid of everyone connected to the destruction on her world. The powersphere destruction! I had forgotten that issue. I now remember thinking about the problem of how Orando continued its journey without that powersphere, and also without Zymyr. In issue #3 Zymyr clearly says that he is combining his power with the machines to enable Orando to shift dimensions. With Zymyr gone how do they continue? Even more importantly, Val died to stop the villains moving Orando further, yet the villains never seem upset by this and are ultimately stopped by battle. So if Orando goes on anyway doesn't that diminish his sacrifice? Did he die for nothing?
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Re: Re-Reading the Legion: Archives Volume 20
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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The powersphere destruction! I had forgotten that issue. I now remember thinking about the problem of how Orando continued its journey without that powersphere, and also without Zymyr. In issue #3 Zymyr clearly says that he is combining his power with the machines to enable Orando to shift dimensions. With Zymyr gone how do they continue? Even more importantly, Val died to stop the villains moving Orando further, yet the villains never seem upset by this and are ultimately stopped by battle. So if Orando goes on anyway doesn't that diminish his sacrifice? Did he die for nothing?
Good questions! I suggest that Val's overall purpose was to protect Orando from the LSV and, in that, he succeeded. I'm not too worried about Orando completing the journey without Zymyr and one of the powerspheres. Perhaps the dimensional transit works like a slide in a playground: You have to exert effort to climb to the top of the stairs, but, once you get so far, you can complete the journey with a push and sit back to enjoy the ride.
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Re: Re-Reading the Legion: Archives Volume 20
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Tempus Fugitive
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I felt that the whole multi stage jump was a bit forced, jus tto get the plotted confrontations to take place. Val's death was already slated and these were just the necessary hoops to go through to make it happen. I'd have liked to have seen the Orakles of Orando ( Orando Orakles is also the name of their Moopsball team  ) be responsible for making the final jump, or Jeckie tapping into powers that distanced her even more from the Legion. One simple solution is that there was redundancy in the number of powerspheres. They had more than was needed, to ease the burden on Zymyr. Val's actions meant that work would have to be done to reroute all of this. With the LSV beaten, that work was completed and Ornado got to move. Of course, to get the work completed would have required some knowledge. Perhaps it was supplied by the Leigonnaires before their departure. I'd like to think that Esper Lass cut a deal with Jeckie, which is why the villains escaped with their lives.
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