Jim's Legion Blog

Released November 19, 2003 DC Comics, Color 33 Pages Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Leonard Kirk, Tony Harris, Tom Feister- Pencils Tony Harris, Robin Riggs, Tom Feister- Inks Comicraft? - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Darkseid's minions fly through space while Trudy Trusoe begins a broadcast about the Legion starting in Metropolis and moving to Legion World via Shikari. Trudy narrates her experience as tags appear identifying the Legionnaires and providing background information.  In the threshold chamber, she meets Kid Quantum, Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl. They provide a recap of the Legion's founding and Jazmin gives Trudy a flight ring. They go to the command deck and get information on Triad, Gear, Chuck and XS.  The Medbay has Gym'll, Apparition, Ultra Boy and Cub.  Next stop is the "Clubhouse" bar, where we see Timber Wolf, Wildfire, Ferro, Starboy, Dreamer and Umbra carousing with a host of Scifi easter eggs.  Trudy, Rokk and Jazmin sit ...

Released November 12, 2003 DC Comics, Color 21 Pages Foundations Part Two Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Chip Wallace - Inks Sno Cone - Colors Jared K. Fletcher - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis A sacrifice is made before the throne of Darkseid on Apokalips, but it is not enough. Five weeks pass. A team of Legionnaires and Superboy enter the Enduku system to investigate a stargate.  Superboy is clearly annoying Cosmic Boy with his attitude - he's eager to get back to his time, and rushes into the situation.  Superboy encounters three of Darkseid's minions who zap him, and the Legion flings into action. Umbra's darkness and Spark's electricity don't seem to have any affect on them, and neither does raw brawling. The lead minion rips the S off of Superboy's T-shirt and the three vanish in a Boom Tube. On Legion World's Winath habitat, Garth, in his Element Lad body, is moping as the return of Superboy is still the cent...

Released October 29, 2003 DC Comics, Color 39 Pages Foundations - Celebrating 45 Years of the Legion Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Robin Riggs, Chip Wallace, Doug Hazelwood - Inks Sno Cone - Colors Jared Fletcher - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Additional Art: Eric Wight (Art & Color Pages 1-3, 37, 38) Tony Harris & Tom Feister (Art & Color - Pages 10-12,20-21,30-33) Dave Cockrum & Al Milgrom (Pages 14-18) Paul Rivoche (Art & Color - Pages 23-28) Synopsis Lana Lang and Pete Ross flag down a young Clark Kent in 20th century Smallville to work on a book report. He declines and continues on to his parents' shop. On the way he meets the Legion founders looking very similar to their Adventure #247 costumes and take him to the future.  In the 31st century, Spark is on Trom, speaking to the memorial of Element Lad as she works through her guilt about feeling bad about him while also depositing some other crystals she found in th...

Released September 24, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages After Dark Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Steve Lightle - Art Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis A threshold opens in pitch blackness and Tasmia Mallor steps forward into the shadow, suddenly broken by the lights of a vehicle coming right at her. She quickly latches on to the passing craft and holds on as it lands in a garage; it is a Science Police craft and everyone is spooked about the shadows outside.  The Talokians are kicking out the UP and cast shadow across their world in order to hide; this is why Umbra's shadow power has disappeared.  A giant shadow appears to attack the SP station and Tasmia challenges it as the rightful champion of the world, but it overcomes her.   Tasmia wakes up naked in the house of the Shadow Maven, her former teacher, and she gets the breakdown from him as she gets dressed.  Essentially, Talok VIII freaked out when Tasmia was ...

Released August 27, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Dream Crime Part Five Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Mark Farmer - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis The final chapter of Dream Crime begins exactly where we left off.  The summary page catches us up from the events of the last issue where Universo is in control of the Legion and soon the universe.  The image features a seated Universo backed by Ferro, Shikari, Karate Kid and Sensor who is wrapping her arms around Universo from behind.  In the story, Universo stands with Saturn Girl and Dreamer strapped into chairs tapping their thoughts, the rest of the entranced Legion standing around with the four newcomers lying on the floor at their feet.  Universo reaches out to Sensor only to find that she's an illusion and has in fact freed Imra and Nura!  Universo forces the Legionnaires to find them.     Elsewhere, Sensor...

Released July 30, 2003 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages Dream Crime Part Four Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Mark Farmer - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Issue 22's background roll gets us up to speed and features Karate Kid, Ferro, Shikari and Sensor before diving right into the story with Universo himself. Universo is becoming a control addict. What started as a means to escape and take over the UP is growing into the need to control more.  He has Saturn Girl and Dreamer hostage in some kind of telepathy chairs. The rest of the Legion is coming through the portals to Titan and be in person with Universo.  Shikari and Sensor float through the warp space, Sensor lost and flailing when Shikari comes to her rescue. They fall out of the portal on Steeple and collapse on the ground to be found by a mysterious figure.   On Titan,  Universo dialogs how he used the threat of Darkseid to disguise his own threat via ...

Released June 25, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Dream Crime Part Three Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Mark Farmer - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Issue 21's "scroll" intro features Shikari and Sensor in her new form and a description of why Dreamer is on Titan.  The story jumps right into the matter of Darkseid. Nura is communicating her vision of Darkseid back to the Legion.  Rokk, always mister history, recognizes the name from his studies. Dreamer communicates that the UP is in immediate threat.  Triad and Gear get to work researching and as soon as he finds data about a Boom Tube, one pops open on the command deck with parademons pouring out chanting "Darkseid is." Over on the medical deck, Jo and Tinya start to tangle over the subject of Imra when Apocalypse pops out of space next to Legion World and all hell breaks loose and the Legion jumps into action fighting against the...

  Released May 28, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Dream Crime - Part 2 Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Mark Farmer - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Issue 20 begins with the same style of background crawl that was introduced in the prior issue.  The background drawing centers on Imra flanked by an embracing Tinya & Jo on one side with Jo glaring at an annoyed Timber Wolf on her right with XS just below.  The figures are surrounded with images of various other Legionnaires' heads with their eyes closed.  The story itself starts with Imra reading a comic book. Except its not Imra.  She is inexplicably in a retro-diner called RJ's Clubhouse Diner as a daydreaming waitress ignoring her customers.  Jenni is another of RJ's waitresses serving Jo, Tinya and Wildfire, who hits on Jenni.  She notices two science police sitting down and she moves to attend to Rokk Krinn and Zoe "...

Released April 30, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Dream Crime - Part One Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Mark Farmer - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis The beginning of Dream Crime features a new masthead logo for the cover, and a new introduction style that recalls the Legion books of the early 80s with a small blurb describing the setting of the 31st century and the Legion, as well as a quick summary of Saturn Girl's and Dreamer's trip to Titan.  The pair are on Titan to see if Dreamer's visions can be used as a UP early warning system paired with Titanet. A voiceover talks about being more. Dreamer and Saturn Girl emerge from the portal on Titan and are greeted by our old friend Aven. Nura and Aven stare at each other for a beat before Aven realizes they were talking telepathically when Nura isn't telepathic.  Imra notes the amount of chatter going on around them while Nura notes how quiet...

Released March 26, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Revival of the Fittest Part Two Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Alejandro Barrionuevo - Pencils Andy Lanning & Simon Coleby - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Part 2 of the story begins with Star Boy and Invisible Kid confer on Legion World.  Thom thinks its about whatever happened to him on Xanthu the prior issue, while Lyle and Brainy really want his opinion about the death of Ra's al Ghul, with a nice summary of what happened - namely his collision with a wall. But Brainy has a problem in that the mass of the remains don't add up properly. Shifting over to the command deck, we learn that M'Onel had retrieved Ra's without consulting Kid Quantum, who's not happy about the situation.  Gym'll lets us know that Sensor is mutating into deformity.   Back in the lab, Brainy theorizes that Ra's is now essentially sentient blood, which is why his arm regener...

Released February 26, 2003 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Revival of the Fittest Part One Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Alejandro Barrionuevo - Pencils Lanning - Inks Jason Wright - Colors Comicraft - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis This issue starts with a cold open of M'Onel and Shvaughn Erin visiting a prisoner in an as yet unspecified location to meet Ra's al Ghul, who has used the last thousand years to amass a legal army that was apparently able to force the bureaucracy to pull Ra's out of the stasis chamber he was in at the end of Legion # .  Ra's hand, previously sliced off by Gates, has apparently grown back.  He is confident that he will be released given that his rights are being violated from being held without trial.  He's also concerned about his clones. M'Onel asks Ra's for help for a situation. A few hours earlier on "The Murdered World of Xanthu" XS and Star Boy are discussing the impending revival of the world while ...