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Released March 27, 2002 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages Terra Incognita 1: Terrorform Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning - Writers Oliver Coipel - Pencils Andy Lanning - Inks Tom McCraw - Colors Comicraft - Letters Mike McAvennie - Editor Synopsis We begin with our go-to reporter Trudy Trusoe reporting from the Metropolis streets where demonstrations are happening against McCauley's terraforming plans. An energy surge hits them and Zoe comes out of nowhere, picking up Trudy and her cameraman (Lizu) and sprinting them out of harm's way.  Zoe is having problems holding on to the two of them while flying and crashes.  Trudy immediately recognizes her as the former Kinetix and tries to get an impromptu interview. Lizu picks up a small purple sphere when the feed goes dead.   In studio, Vigo gets us up to speed with the Footstep Lab story.  In addition to SP forces, apparently the media was there, as well, as Cos used that to speak out on the horrors of that experimentatio...

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 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...

 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...