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Huh. I knew they were new to wherever they are working from, and was surprised to see Superboy (which sent me chasing back to original posts of the image and yes he was there all along) but somehow I read but completely missed the bit about it being their official founding. Huh.

I was expecting more Legion ... sigh

Meh. The Booster segment was a little better than any of the rest of both issues, but there's really very little substance in this issue, just like in the prior one.

So... do we have anything else to look forward to before next month's v8 #1?

Superman #16 (on sale next week) supposedly has Damian meet the Legion and I think that's where Saturn Girl picks Superboy up in the time bubble as seen in the preview in Legion Millennium #2.

Yeah, the whole 2 issues kind of felt almost like an AD for the upcoming Legion series, but stil exciting to see what littel there is of them. (So I'd say "not much, but better than nothing!")

Wow, are we really to V8 now? That's right, I guess it is based on book titles, so... wow, yeah, V8.

Hopefully, this one will last past the very common 5-year limit (or just past 60 issues)... after all, it is named after an awesome vegetable juice drink...

Booster was being Booster, the whole "lamely trying to pick up Rose" bit was kind of cute, and I enjoyed looking at his butt.

I did like the Planeteers segment too.

My eyes glazed over the "dear diary I am lost in space" bit, I skimmed past it.

Huh.

At least the art was better in the second issue.

Shame the writing was even worse.

Overall, I think Rose/Thorn is the most unappealing protagonist since Evangeline Lilly's character from the TV show "Lost."

Or, if we keep it within comic books, she's the most unappealing protagonist since Dane McGowan from "The Invisibles."

And remember how Grant Morrison fixed that little problem? He shifted the focus to other characters.

I hope you're reading this, Mr. Bendis. And I hope you shift the focus away from Rose/Thorn ASAP. Or you'll lose at least one reader before one year is up.

Actually, though, now that I think... even in that tiny amount of Legion appearance, I thought the "mem" idea was pretty cool.

Bendis had said in one of his interviews I read recently (thanks to a link in this forum somewhere) that he was going to try new things with the future /sci fi aspect. If the "mem" thing is any indication, that is at least fairly imaginative.

Let's face it, sci fi depictions of the future in comics have been re-treading the same memes since the 60s, and many things we HAVE today are things never thought of then. Thinking of new "1000 years in the future" ideas in the context of TODAYs technology will be unique and refreshing if they can pull it off...the only decent job I have seen of this is "Black Mirror", though of course that is not even trying for 1000 years...(although the volume of my comic reading is low these days, probably someone I don't know about is maybe covering this theme well....)

I hadn't given any though to Rose joining as Mary Sue Lass. She's probably going to be part of the opening arc (both to give them something to do having just formed and to justify people paying for the two millennium issues). But hopefully they've learned from the last immortal Legionnaire in the book: Harmonia. I ended up quite liking her, but less so when she was hogging so many panels.

My problem with Bendis' take on Rose/Thorn is that the most interesting thing about her character has been removed in this version. Rather like Professor Hulk in Avengers Endgame.

I had the opportunity to sit quietlyfor awhile with Milennium #1 and #2 yesterday, so I feel more sanguine about sharing my opinion. Overall... still waiting.

How has it been removed? She's still having the split personality thing going, and Thorn is still killing drug dealers.

You must be reading a different Legion of Super-Heroes Milennium #2 than I am.

OK, I'm seeing that Thorn killed a bunch of alien drug dealers in the scene immediately after the OMAC segment. Rose wakes up, wearing a cocktail dress, and finds herself surrounded by dead alien drug dealers.

In the next scene she's Rose, she's in the Vega system, looking at a giant-size humanoid face (X'hal?) And somehow discovers her sense of purpose. This seems to be what she's meant to communicate to the Legion, so as Rose, she travels to New Earth to tell the Legion about it.

So in those last scenes, she's Rose, but how does that imply that Thorn is gone from her?

Thorn: … because I have a great deal to share with you. I have searched the galaxy and found my special purpose.
Tenzil: Welcome to the Legion, Porpoise Girl!
Thorn: What? No, my destiny... my...
>glare from Fate Lass<
Thorn: ...my kismet...
Tenzil: "Kiss me?" Never on the first day of a new super team!
Thorn: Gaah!
Tenzil: Now, Porpoise Girl. Do you call your finny friends by special names like Peter the Puffer Fish? It's going to come in handy when we get Aquaman's trident in #2.
Thorn: Maybe I could wait for the Justice Legion... >walks off<

Just finally got around to reading Millennium. I haven't been reading any mainstream comics at all for several years now (I stopped shortly after the New 52 thing started) and I have to say that if this is an example of the best they have to offer (and they certainly built it up to be just that), then standards have truly fallen to a new low. I think I'd rather read old Gold Key comics...at least the characters spoke in complete sentences in those. And there used to be something called plot in comics; these two comics were more like a series of trailers for B movies leading up to a big crowd scene in which a bunch of generic characters tossed out non-sequiturs. I'm almost afraid to look at the actual Legion books now.

ROTFLMAO

Hermit, since LSH Millennium produced a typically witty post from you, it can't be a total loss.