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Released November 12, 2014 DC Comics, Color 25 Pages The Infinitus Saga Part 2 of 5 Jeff Lemire - Writer Neil Edwards -  Artist Jay Listen with Keith Champagne - Inker Jeromy Cox - Colorist Travis Lanham - Letterer Amedeo Turturro - Assistant Editor Brian Cunningham - Group Editor Synopsis The evil shapeshifter Byth urges the alien Ultra to continue interfacing with a mysterious anomaly while the JLU team on Ryngor fights for survival. That is, until the Legion of Super Heroes (Legion Lost II edition) shows up! Then we get a whole roll call: JLU: Martian Manhunter, Equinox, Ultra the Multi-Alien, Adam Strange, Alanna Strange, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Animal Man, Stargirl LSH: Mon-El, Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Chameleon Girl, Tyroc, Wildfire, Tellus, Timber Wolf, Gates The battle is joined, and the JLU is confused, but are glad for the help from the mysterious future team. Tyroc helps Green Arrow, while Equinox tries to snap Ultra out of his communion with the anomaly. S...

Released May 26, 2004 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Notorious Part 2 Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Jay Lester - Inks Sno Cone - Colors Jared K Fletcher - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis RJ Brande is being tortured by Singularity to admit that the Legion is the source of the galaxy's suffering by being the source of Element Lad/Progenitor.  Refusing to break, Brande is sent back to his cell to rejoin Kinetix, Gates and Chameleon, all three bound by some kind of power inhibitors.  They are joined shortly by Garth. Gates and Cham think its a trick, but Brande and Kinetix (who seems to be speaking normally now instead of in ethereal phrasing) sense the truth.   Garth explains what happened and why he's there, but Cham has none of it.   The trap springs; the Espionage Squad has been with Garth the entire time.  Invisible Kid, Sensor, Apparition and Vi reveal themselves, dispatch the guards, and free their colleagues fr...

Released April 28, 2004 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Notorious Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Chris Batista - Pencils Chip Wallace & Jay Leisten- Inks Sno Cone - Colors Jared K. Fletcher - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Garth speaks with Gym'll about his current condition, unable to sleep and in crystalline body (and uniform) of Jan Arrah.  Everyone is scared of who he MIGHT become, even himself. He goes for a walk and finds several Legionnaires in the threshold room, with odd readings coming from the portal to the second galaxy.  A tattered and damaged M'Onel bursts through with a Kwai navigator, but they are immediately followed by a team of Credo (remember them?), including one Kwai, who kill M'Onel's navigator and attack the Legionnaires. The fight gets ugly, and Garth zaps a Credo who overpowers Umbra.  The rest of the Credo recognize Garth as the Progenitor and flee back through the portal.   Recovering, M'Onel gives us the backstory. T...

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 June 5, 2002 DC Comics, Color 24 Pages Terror Incognita 3: Hypersapiens Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Oliver Coipel - Pencils Andy Lanning - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis Issue 8 starts in the ICU.  M'Onel is in bad shape in the OR, as the doctor's can't match his blood, nor cut into him to remove the bullet.  Triad debates with herself about telling them the truth about his Daxamite background and about him being Valor. The debate is useless, however, as Kinetix walks into the OR and shoots green energy over him - one assumes to heal him. Cosmic Boy becomes Exposition Lad, explaining the current Hypertaxis situation to their strike force and anyone who hasn't yet read the series as the moon is pushed closer to the Earth. We then get another page of exposition about the history of Ra's al Ghul and his current involvement with the Legion.  Cos finishis his speech with a nice touch. Ra's has been listenting in and moc...