Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Three great Legionnaires back here, and one xenophobic jerk.

I wasn't reading the book at the time, but if I'd known Tellus, Gates, and Quislet were here, I'd have been in! From 2011, Legion of Super-Heroes #13, "False Hopes" Written by Paul Levitz, pencils by Yıldıray Çınar, inks by Jonathan Glapion.
The appearance of those three is probably on purpose, to contrast with the isolationist and probably xenophobic "Earth-Man," who was new: he had power-duplication, and those sideburns might have been a power as well. Most of the Legion here is fighting the Legion of Super-Villains, who seem to be moving their plan along. Saturn Queen had read Earth-Man's mind, and sends Hunter (who had no powers to be stolen) to make him an offer: back the LSV when the time comes, and he'd be given earth, to "cleanse it any way you want." I think you're supposed to expect Earth-Man to make a face-turn, and become a hero; but I don't trust him at all.
Back on earth, Mon-El was using a Green Lantern power ring, to communicate with other Legionnaires and co-ordinate against the LSV, who are teleported away by Zymyr. (I forget what kind of alien he was, but he was an oddball...) I don't know if law banning GL's from earth had been rescinded, either. And Dream Girl visits Star Boy, who was having some energy/multiverse thing going; but Dreamy might have foreseen something happening...This feels like a quick chapter of a longer serial, but not bad.

1 comment:

Mr. Morbid said...

Earth Man apparently sacrificed himself to help save the team after this, so there’s that, despite the fact that for most of his modern appearances, he was basically portrayed as a Trumper/MAGAt. It sucked to see the entire planet being represented by a huge douchebag like that, but considering the time frame & political attitude of the time, it fit, especially now more than ever.
Definitely did enjoy Geoff Johns run on Superman, especially the Legion stuff.