Random Happenstance

We recently saw a fairly old Adventure Comics with Supergirl, but here's a much more recent one: from 2010, Adventure Comics #518, "Whispers of Doom" Written by Paul Levitz, pencils by Kevin Sharpe, inks by Marlo Alquiza.

I don't know if this was a reboot/relaunch of the Legion of Super-Heroes, so much as an updating of some classic stories, with maybe some continuity patches. In space, several members are after the henchmen of space pirate Zaryan (from classic 1963's Adventure #304!) who has planned an assault on Naltor. He's a bit chuffed when he gets there, and every science-cop in the quadrant is waiting: Naltor was home to future Legionnaire Nura Nal, who would later join as the pre-cog Dream Girl. While Zaryan escapes again, Nura has another vision, of a dying Legionnaire...but who?

Meanwhile, Superboy visits the new Legion headquarters--the one shaped like a rocket accident, you can't miss it--which Phantom Girl is patrolling, possibly for ghosts: several had claimed, they had been hearing voices. Superboy has to visit the Superman Museum, which has a massive exhibit to Doomsday and Superman's death, which is kind of a downer--they didn't note that he would come back after that? Seems like an important part of the exhibit. (Superboy had a post-telepathic command from Saturn Girl; so he wouldn't remember anything he learned about his future when he returned to his own time.) Still, he hears a ghostly voice, telling him to go home; and Brainiac 5 has to agree: Superboy could only come to the 31st Century at specific times; other times history already noted when and where he was supposed to be.

Also this issue: the Atom, in "Nucleus, part 3: We Are All Atoms" Written by Jeff Lemire, pencils by Mahmud Asrar, inks by John Dell. I like this one, even if it's a bit darker than classic Atom stories: Ray's old friend Professor Hyatt is attacked, by soldiers from "the Colony" that stole Ray's tech. Unfortunately for them, they didn't also have white dwarf-star fragments like Ray did, and their bodies couldn't survive the shrinking process. Ray makes a call to Oracle, which Barbara initially thinks was to flirt, but he needed a call traced, so he could face the Colony... 

I'm pretty sure there's a similar scene in the Legion of Super-Heroes 2006-2008 cartoon with Clark staggered by a visit to his future museum, but I think that had been a piece of Legion lore for some time. This was just bringing it in earlier on.