Jim's Legion Blog

Released August 25, 2004 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages For No Better Reason Part Four - Moebius Strip Gail Simone Girl - Writer Dan Jurgens Lad - Breakdowns Kid Andy Smith - Finishes Sno Cone 5.1 - Colors Rob Leigh 'Onel - Letters Timber Wacker - Editor Synopsis In Metropolis, the streets are still burning and Trudy's still journaling. Canary is trying to wake up Dreamer and spells out the whole scheme - the destruction of Legion World and the Kwai gates - as she brews tea on a makeshift stove.  Outside in the streets, the crowds are getting restless and mob rule is starting to descend.  Umbra sweeps in and takes out a team of would-be looters. Brainy tries to convince Umbra to not get distracted by the mobs and focus on her main task. Violet is putting out fires. Devil watches. Trudy triages the injured and finds inspiration in Tinya.   On Oasis One, Persuader attempts to leave with his daughter, but suggests an alternative to Val - he'll return to his cell on the condi...

Released July 28, 2004 DC Comics, Color 22 Pages For No Better Reason Part Two - Personality Conflict Gail Simone - Writer Dan Jurgens - Layouts Andy Smith - Finishes Sno Cone - Colors Rob Leigh - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis We pick up twelve minutes after the Spike, and Trudy's narration gets us up to speed on things.  Winema is bleeding out and Tinya is desperately trying to get her to phase. Violet is sprawled out across the plaza and nothing technological is working. People are beginning to panic.  Timber Wolf and Ultra Boy make an initial determination to help the people in the crowd until Tinya convinces Jo to take care of Winema. Brin takes care of the crowd's needs.  Umbra tells us the tech on Brainy's face is a personality inhibitor that's turned off, and Cham has broken something that has rendered his arm useless.   Brainy starts to lose it due to his cyberdeck failing, so Umbra slaps him into focus and puts him in a darkfield to orga...

  Released July 14, 2004 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages For No Better Reason Part One - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Gail Simone - Writer Dan Jurgens - Breakdowns Andy Smith - Finishes Sno Cone - Colors Rob Leigh - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis Karate Kid delivers a criminal named Pinter to the new Oasis One prison as an unknown 21-year old narrator gives us background.  We are told its thirty minutes "pre-Spike."   Pinter is an organ-stealer for his own use.  The prison can apparently be immediately vaporized by the UP President.  Twenty Minutes pre-Spike: President Wazzo and her Durlan advisor arrive in Metropolis Hub for a ceremony honoring the Legion. Winema meets her daughter, Umbra, Ultra Boy, Chameleon, Violet, Brainiac 5.1 and Timber Wolf, all in nice civvie clothes. Tinya and Winema immediately are abrasive to Jo's amusement. Brainy expresses his unhappiness being there when he is contacted by Chuck and Gear, who have lost Dre...

Released June 30, 2004 DC Comics, Color 23 Pages Childhood's End Keith Champagne - Writer Steve Lightle - Art Sno Cone - Colors Bill Oakley - Letters Stephen Wacker - Editor Synopsis In the Anti-matter universe, the world Qward sits, burnt out and wasted by two factions, the Weaponers and the Thunderers.  Lord Thalon stands as the savior of Qward weilding an energy that makes him a god among them. In his palace, Thalon's son Vox wants to learn more, but Thalon is a harsh father and ruler, brutally torturing any who stand in his way.   Thalon steals inside a genetically secure chamber and it is revealed that Thalon's secret is that he's captured Wildfire across universes and is somehow siphoning off his energy to rule the land.  Vox plays at being a conqueror when he stumbles upon the Legionnaire rescue party: Shikari, Umbra, Chameleon, Invisible Kid and Karate Kid.  Vox turns and runs for help, evading the Legionnaires "Stealth" Squad. He then appeals to Thalo...

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 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 ...