Jim's Legion Blog

Released July 2, 2008 DC Comics, Color 24 Pages Enemy Rising Part 4: The Leader Who Lost the Legion Jim Shooter - Writer Francis Manapul - Penciller Livesay - Inker Jo Smith - Colorist Mike Marts - Editor Synopsis Star Boy wrecks the Rimborian police craft that is after Ultra Boy. Saturn Girl points out that they are breaking the law. The team convinces her that saving Rimbor should override and lawbreaking, and she caves pretty quickly, wiping out the memories of the Rimborian police. At HQ in Metropolis, the Science Police execute a search warrant in the HQ and they go through various personal quarters and facilities. They are mainly looking for Brainy.  On the planet Velmar V, the UP Young Heroes are being held hostage by the Ikonns after a mission gone bad. Meanwhile, a Legion team sneaks up.  Invisible Kid suggest doing some recon, but the rest of the team wants to take a more direct approach and attacks the Ikonns immediately. Karate Kid, Triplicate Girl and Invisible Ki...

Released December 26, 2007 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Evil Adventus Part 1: Conflict Jim Shooter - Writer Francis Manapul - Penciller Livesay - Inker Nathan Eyring - Colorist Mike Marts - Editor Synopsis The first page is striking - in both art and situation. Trip's situation and the faceoff of Val and the monster is definitely attention grabbing.  He punched through the creature completely while his arm is broken. Trip is out of commission being overpowered - Val think she should never have been sent. Garth seems distracted when Tinya calls him.  At HQ he's quite overwhelmed with Leader duties, even as his sister helps him.  Imra, Thom, Brin (looking normal) and Lyle are on Triton to help stave off an impending attack, but no one does anything. Imra calls her mother. At HQ, Garth is still dealing with random requests when Val smashes Garth's robotic concierge. Val is upset about the situation he and Trip were in, then promptly collapses.  Garth calls a mostly naked T...

Released May 23, 2007 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages The End is Only the Beginning! Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Penciller Mick Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti - Inker Nathan Eyring - Colorist Mike Marts - Editor Synopsis In a great foreshadowing moment, we see a memorial statue to Mon-El. The story picks up seven days prior: The Legion and Wanderers, led by Cosmic Boy, cripple the Dominator homeworld while Brainiac 5 finds a cure for the AI plague on Earth. But the flip side is that there are millions of Dominion super soldiers that at some point will be let loose on the galaxy, sooner or later. Dream Boy lets slip about a bomb that Rokk ordered Brainy to create to devastate the planet. He also dishes on the truth about Dream Girl - she only appears in people's dreams. Meanwhile Kara and Lar finish up on the planet and head out to meet the Legion, but Mon-El is weakening by the moment.  Cos decides the Dominator threat needs to be dealt with by any means necessary, and Brainy construct...

Released April 4, 2007 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Penciller Mick Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti - Inkers Nathan Eyring - Colorist Mike Marts - Editor Synopsis Dream Boy floats alone in a void, soon visited by Dream Girl to give him some future advice. In Metropolis, Mon-El looks for any sign of Cosmic Boy, but is feeling feverish as the effects of the lead serum start to wear off. Brainy is upset because all avenues of getting any kinds of resources are held by the Dominators or the AI virus they've released, resulting in citizens starving or at risk. Elsewhere, Jeckie and Shady care for a wounded Brin Londo, along with two Wanderers, a telekinetic and someone who appears to be Polar Boy.  A robot bursts into their room and is handily dispatched by a worn down Ultra Boy, who promptly collapses.  At the former site of HQ (the second one destroyed), Phantom Girl and a couple Wanderers discuss the last ditch plan as they look for something.  In P...

Released November 22, 2006 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages From Out of the Phantom Zone! Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Penciller Mick Gray - Inker Nathan Eyring - Colorist Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Kandor City, Planet Rokyn - Jeyra and her band have the Legionnaire squad down and out while Imra is distracted by another presence. Jeyra's team takes out Cos and Imra but is confronted by Kara, back in costume. She gets a few museum relic tools to help capture Jeyra and crew, but they teleport off planet. Jeyra's crew was after a phantom zone ray, created by Jor-El to house prisoners.  We get the full backstory on Kandor and as they prepare to leave, Ayla is told that if the Legion leaves, they are not welcome back, therefore never able to see Kara again. Cos invites Kara to come with the Legion after all.  Legion HQ - Garth is writing a stump speech for his election bid. Dream Boy gives critique.  Brainy works on the zone projector in his lab. Imra can sense more about ...

Released October 25, 2006 DC Comics, Color 24 Pages Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Penciller Mick Gray - Inker Nathan Eyring - Colorist Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Kara wakes from a sleep pod and thinks she is back on Krypton, but quickly realizes she is on a relocated Kandor, as Ayla, Imra, Brainy and Rokk are there with her.  Brainy and Cos wanted to dispel Kara's notion that she was dreaming her reality, so they take her on a spaceship, expose her to Kryptonite (which is what Brin procured a few issues back) and sedate her for the trip to Kandor. Kara is very upset and is angry with the Legion, but especially Rokk, who she thought was falling for her. Rokk explains that it was just 'radiation' and seems to successfully convince Kara that her being on Kandor is for everyone's safety. Imra detects another mind. Element Lad and Triplicate Girl are investigating the remains of the robot battle from a few issues ago. They run across a kid who can make plants grow,...

Released August 23, 2006 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Mark Waid & Tony Bedard - Script Barry Kitson - Layouts Adam Dekraker - Pencils Rob Still - Inker Nathan Eyring - Colorist Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis In Big City, Gim reads a paper that says he's the inspiration of the rebellious giants from last issue. He verbally spars with the female prisoner (who kinda looks like Charlize Theron). Normal size SP officers arrive for a prisoner transfer, but its a setup. Three rebels, including the missing Seiss, arrive and free the prisoners, who then beat the crap out of Gim before they leave.  Back at the Crab Pulsar, we have Brainy trying to revive Dream Girl via Lemnos while Light Lass, Element Lad and Atom Girl watch. Jan lectures Brainy on mortality until he realizes he's not listening.  At HQ, the Legion ladies (Lu, Tinya & Jeckie) try to make Kara feel more at home and find some common ground with Kara's "you're all made up" theory. Jeckie throws out t...

Released February 1, 2006 DC Comics, Color 31 Pages Mark Waid - Writer Ken Lashley - Pencils Adam DeKraker - Pencils pgs 7-12,18-20 KWL Designs - Inks and Color Rodney Ramos - Inks pgs 7-12, 18-20 Sno Cone - Colors pgs 7-12, 18-20 Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis On New Year's Eve, the UP is looking at the rubble of the Terror Firma attacks and all the negative press going their way for not listening to the Legion.  Imra's mother recommends granting the Legion official UP status and delivers it to her daughter, Garth and Tasmia. Garth, who is interim leader while Rokk is away, but he doesn't know what to make of this offer, which will make the Legion supposedly independent of, yet economically tied to the UP. In Legion plaza, Luornu, Thom and Val, apologize to Lyle about the Atom Girl prank and Val for getting mad after Lyle blamed Atom Girl for snitching to Brainy about the lab break in.  He promptly disappears.  At Colossal Boy's house, Ayla wakes up very confused (ap...

Released November 30, 2005 DC Comics, Color 30 Pages The Legion of Super Heroes vs Terror Firma! Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Pencils Ken Lashley - pages 23 & 24 Gray & Geraci - Inks Sno Cone - Colors Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis After a neat two page synopsis of the story, we get a full Roll Call, with Dream Girl listed as Deceased. Then the focus is on the Otherspace team trying to contact the other groups.  Ultra Boy scans and sees Lemnos prepping to start the fight, and Brin in a cell. The notions from Dormir fly in and suddenly Cos is communicating with the team. They decide to cut the Transmatter network to stop any invasion, but that leaves Ultra Boy and Karate Kid's team stranded.  On Trxxl, Skelter is ready to pounce on Saturn Girl. He moves in when a sudden darkfield blinks. He grabs Saturn Girl, who suddenly zaps him - its actually Lightning Lad wrapped in a 'skin' of Cham shaped like Imra. Saturn Girl prepares to scan Skelter's mind when Cos...

Released August 24, 2005 DC Comics, Color 31 Pages Mark Waid & Barry Kitson - Plot Mark Waid - Dialogue Georges Jeanty - Penciller Art Thibert - Inks Sno Cone - Colors Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Picking up the pieces from the core Legion's personnel rift, the schism spreads to the crowd of young Legion supporters in the plaza.  Two kids begin to come to blows when Lyle steps in to cool it down, but they turn on him as one of the catalysts of the fallout. Lyle goes to try and stop Cos from leaving but is too late. Meanwhile Cos is at the transport hub getting ready to leave to Braal, talking to Pol about the situation. Saturn Girl meets with her mother, the Titanian representative on Earth, who tells Imra about more worlds leaving the UP. Imra tries to warn about Lemnos but is lectured about passion while sending that information to Garth telepathically.  Garth and Luornu are strategizing when Lyle comes in with a suggestion, but is derided by Luornu. Ultra Boy walks ...

  Released June 22, 2005 DC Comics, Color 30 Pages Cover Title - "Follow the Leader!" Mark Waid - Writer Barry Kitson - Penciller Arth Thibert & James Pascoe - Inks Chris Blythe - Colors Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Brainy and Lyle are working in the lab when a message about Colu being the next Terra Firma target appears. In the prior issue when Brainy met Lemnos, he subconsciously sent a message to himself. He, Light Lass, Cham and Saturn Girl head to Colu. Back at HQ, Cos argues with UP reps - the Coluans have been tasked to bargain with Terra Firma except, as Cos points out, they can't be bargained with. Triplicate Girl and Sun Boy discuss his thinking of leaving the Legion.  The away team arrives at a very sterile looking Colu, but it turns out that everything is miniaturized! They arrive at a control facility but only find virus-wiped Coluans who are conscious but have no memories. Ayla rips her way into Brainy's mother's lab, which is in a state of d...

  Released February 23, 2005 DC Comics, Color 31 Pages Cover Title - Three is a Magic Number Mark Waid & Barry Kitson - Storytellers Art Thibert - Finishes Pages 1,3,6-26,28-30 Chris Blythe - Colors Phil Balsman - Letters Harvey Richards - Asst Editor Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Triplicate Girl is dangling off a ledge above an inferno as an enemy steals her flight ring and threatens her. She pulls him off the ledge, and triplicates to dangle him further towards the fire below. He surrenders and is taken into custody. Phantom Girl is reading old Batman comics in Element Lad's room while he preps for a date, and they are seeking dating advice from the comic book. He takes off his ring to switch his appearance to normal clothes when his date arrives - Triplicate Girl! Jan opens by saying he likes to be naked. Lu responds by talking about her story. She woke to a ruined Cargg to find herself the sole survivor. She found the ability to triplicate and to keep triplicating until ...