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The Legion #2 Released 11/28/01 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Fight or Flight Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Oliver Coipel - Pencils Andy Lanning - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis McCauley's Oversight Watch team trudges through the tunnel where the Legion's rail car exploded.  Repulse, Twine, Abyss and Brainstorm are there to confirm the demise of the Legionnaires.  To their complete surprise, the Legion survived, and are pissed! The fight that had been telegraphed in the last issue happens.  Saturn Girl had read, just before the bomb went off, that McCauley wants them dead.  Brainstorm neutralizes Ultra Boy before himself being neutralized by Saturn Girl.  Abyss takes out Wildfire with his void, and Umbra tries to eliminate Abyss before her powers fade. Repulse makes a foolhardy charge at Brainy, Twine attacks Kid Quantum and starts to drain her power as Wildfire reappears acting spent.  The Legion vanishe...

Released October 24, 2001 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages No Place Like Home Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Oliver Coipel - Pencils Andy Lanning - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis The story begins immediately following the end of the primary story of Legion Worlds #1, one year after the Rift disaster and follow the public's reaction to the Legion Outpost's re-entry into earth's atmosphere.  Oversight is attempting to destroy the object but M'Onel tells them to stand down, as he is guiding the Outpost to as safe a landing as possible, avoiding the Metropolis skyscrapers.  He is able to guide the careening craft into a controlled crash landing in an empty park as helicopters over overhead.  The Lost Legion emerges and we get a two page reaction spread of media coverage, including discussion of homeworlds, powers, the Legionnaires killed in Lost - and Gates.  The world also meets Shikari.   Venge and the Oversigh...

  Merry Christmas 2022!  So I received the Death and Return of Superman Omni for Christmas, and I think I'll also be adding this book to my Legion reposts. Amazing that they were able to collect all these stories in one volume, and I'm glad as I have most of these originals, but I'm sure I've missed at least a few here. Hope you all are having a great holiday season in however you enjoy and celebrate! -Jim

Released September 26, 2001 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Story #1 - You Are Here:Rimbor Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Kilian Plunkett - Artist Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor We follow the typical LW intro exposition, but this time its Tinya Wazzo thinking about husband Jo Nah's advice of never leaving the Q as an image of Jo is imposed on the background of the establishing shot.  Tinya flies into the foreground.  Sure enough, she is spotted by the Cobra gang, who cat-call her.  Following her husband's remembered advice, she keeps moving but flies right into another hovercar.  She phases to pass through it, but her little bundle is not so lucky.  Tinya herself ends up somehow landing in an alley. The bundle was gelato, but now the gang-bangers are surrounding and threatening to rape her. Out of nowhere, the Vipers are attacked by a "Wolf" on the Cobra "turf" with an assist from Tinya herself.  Tinya and her rescuer tal...

Released August 22, 2001 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Story 1 - You Are Here:Steeple Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Steve Dillon - Pencils Klaus Janson & John Stenisei - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis We are introduced to planet Steeple, a bleak, barren planet mainly used as a Spiritual Retreat.  Val Armorr is flying through the atmosphere on a blimp-steed with his mentor, Sorcsis, who is musing on Val staying on the world to dedicate himself to the local philosophy for ten years. Val's been here for months since the Rift incident along with Andrew Nolan.  We shift over to Ferro, who is in a fight with the criminal Nadir, recently escaped from Takron-Galtos.  It does not go well for Ferro, who's helmet is ripped off and some nasty rending sounds are shown.   Back to Val, he is still contemplating his choice, as he has embraced a pacifist philosophy and feels as if he's losing his edge, but he feels as...

. Released July 25, 2001 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Story #1 - You Are Here:Xanthu Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Duncan Rouleau - Artist Jaimie Mendoza - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Digital Chameleon - Separation Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis In the same spirit of Legion of the Damned Part 2, we are treated to a three page summary of the fall of Xanthu at the hands of Robotica, including the brief history lesson of Xanthu formerly being a UP world, then signing up with the Affiliated Planets, controlled by Khundia. As in the Blight invasion of Earth, the Robotican invasion of Xanthu takes no time at all, using high technology and bio-weapons to subdue the planet to the point of hand to hand combat being the last defense. This brings us to XS, recently arrived on Xanthu after Star Boy/Thom Kallor had been there a while as part of the Amazers. In interesting gear. Just in time to help with the fight. She comes into play with her typical rushed style, which is...

Released June 27, 2001 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Story #1: You Are Here: Braal Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Paul Rivoche - Artist Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis After the tiny tidbit in LW1, where Zoe tells us that Dyrk has been stationed as a SP officer on Braal, we are dumped in media res with Dyrk 12 hours in on the job and dealing with crazy Magnoball fans.  Nice bit of exposition on the fact that he's lost his native magnetism powers, but his SP and Legion training sees him through without the need for backup.  We get a little conversation with Dyrk's partner that this is taking place within 12 hours of the events of LW1, so that's a nice little advancement of the timeline.  The conversation reveals details about Dyrk's brother Omar, also a SP officer on Earth, as well as the introduction of the Footstep stardrive technology (originally mentioned in LW1).  Rapid interstellar travel IS possible without stargate...

Released May 16, 2001 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Story #1 - You Are Here:Winath Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Enrique Breccia - Artist Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis We open with a very TMK intro to Winath with a lot of astrographic and background information about Winath, including the key element about most Winathians are twins. Then we meet Ayla and learn that she's been travelling to Winath from Earth for six months! We get more background on her, Garth and the information around the current galactic situation as her ship docks at an orbital Tower. As she steps out she is immediately recognized, and we are treated to a slightly different reflection to the rift disaster from a 'regular joe' type character, as well as a reminder that her twin is assumed dead. Ayla, wearing her Legion ring around her neck, boards a shuttle to go to the surface and has a flashback to the Outpost evacuation in LSH 125, but a new scene where ...

 Hey there - just a quick note.  The original versions of these reviews on Legion World had much more in depth plot summaries, but I've decided to shorten those in the releases here since its a more open forum and more folks have access to the DC Universe app, which I highly recommend for access to the 70s-today library of DC Comics.   If you'd like me to add more detail, please feel free to drop me a line! 

  Legion Worlds #1 Released April 18, 2001 DC Comics, Color 38 Pages Story 1: You Are Here:Earth Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Yvel Guichet - Pencils Dexter Vines - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis M'Onel plummets to earth over North America fighting an upgraded Tharok.  We go through several pages of Lar struggling against Tharok a lot more than he should, which suggests that Tharok's upgrades are rather dangerous, making the urgency of stopping him that much more important.  They chase through the sky clipping a cargo ship and Lar contacts the Science Police for rescue.  They impact against a building that looks like the Chrysler building by way of Coruscant and eventually land on an elevated roadway.  A drone of some kind launches from Tharok's body, which M'Onel promptly dispatches with freeze breath. We then switch to a news report hosted by Vigo & Trudy giving us a text synopsis of the prior nine p...

Hello and welcome!   I'm Jim - you may know me on the social medias (Discord, Mastodon, etc) as JimboFett.  I'm an IT professional in my "real" life (whatever the hell that is), and am a big fan of most genre culture: TV (Star Trek, Twin Peaks), Movies (Star Wars) and comics (mainly DC).  I'm also a huge Legion of Super Heroes fan and came to the team with the 1994 reboot, so that team is my absolute favorite version, although I like all of them to varying degrees (and for various reasons). Most of what I've been re-reading lately was the Abnett & Lanning version of the Legion as well as the Threeboot. I set this up as a challenge for myself in 2021, as I was not happy with either version of the team due to the changes made - I felt the DnA version was too dark and angsty and lasted too long, and I never understood the reason for the Threeboot, nor did I care for the characterizations.  So as a result, I started to do read/reviews on the Legion World websi...