{"id":5201968,"date":"2020-05-08T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidepulse.dev\/?p=5201968"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:31:13","slug":"retro-review-legion-of-super-heroes-vol-4-0-62-80-legionnaires-0-19-36-by-mccraw-peyer-moder-moy-others-for-dc-comics-the-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2020\/05\/08\/retro-review-legion-of-super-heroes-vol-4-0-62-80-legionnaires-0-19-36-by-mccraw-peyer-moder-moy-others-for-dc-comics-the-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Review: Legion Of Super-Heroes (Vol. 4) #0, 62-80 &#038; Legionnaires #0, 19-36 by McCraw Peyer, Moder, Moy &#038; Others For DC Comics (The Reboot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Legion of Super-Heroes (Vol. 4) #0, 62-80, Legionnaires #0, 19-36, Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #6, Legionnaires Annual #2 (October 1994 to May 1996)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Written by Mark Waid (LSH #0, 62-67, 71, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2), Tom McCraw (LSH #0, 62-67, 71, 76, 78-79, LNR #0, 26, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2), Tom Peyer (LNR #20-34, LSH #67, 71-80, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2), Roger Stern (LNR #35-36)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">Plotted by Mark Waid (LNR #0, 19), Tom McCraw (LNR #19, 24-25, 27-36, LSH #68-70, 72-75, 77, 80), Tom Peyer (LSH #68-70)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">Scripted by Tom Peyer (LNR #19), Mark Waid (LSH #68-70)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">Pencilled by Stuart Immonen (LSH #0, LSH Annual #6), Lee Moder (LSH #62-66, 68-69, 71-80), Jeffrey Moy (LNR #0, 19-24, 26, 29-36, LNR Annual #2), Brian Apthorp (LSH #63), Scott Benefiel (LSH #63), Yancey Labat (LSH #64), Chris Renaud (LSH #67), Mike Collins (LNR #25, 27, LSH Annual #6), Jason Armstrong (LSH #70), Joyce Chin (LNR #28), Jim Hall (LSH Annual #6), Alan Davis (LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">Inked by Ron Boyd (LSH #0, 62-80, LNR #0, 19, LSH Annual #6), Tom Simmons (LSH #63, LNR #22, 24, LSH Annual #6), Philip Moy (LNR #20), WC Carani (LNR #21, 23-24, 26-36, LNR Annual #2), Mark Farmer (LNR #25, LSH Annual #6), Bob Wiacek (LSH Annual #6), Jose Marzan Jr. (LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">Colour by Tom McCraw (LSH #0, 62-80, LNR #0, 19-36, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff6600;\">Spoilers (from twenty-four to twenty-six years ago)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, from the start, I was not happy to see that my beloved Legion was being rebooted.\u00a0 I hated that years of continuity and characters were wiped away, and that the team was being given, more or less, a fresh slate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than that, I hated that nostalgia became a driving force behind this comic, as classic stories got retooled and retold from this 90s perspective.\u00a0 It always seemed unnecessary to me.\u00a0 At the same time, there were things that I remember liking about this, from Lee Moder\u2019s artwork to some of the new characters, like XS and Gates.\u00a0 I remember that the stories grew on me for a while, and then after that, they really didn\u2019t work, until Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning came along and saved the whole thing by breaking just about all of it.\u00a0 Most of the stuff that was happening before that was forgettable, and so I\u2019m coming to this stack of comics with very few memories of what they include, and unfortunately, a sense of dread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am I right to feel that way?\u00a0 I guess we\u2019re going to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One piece of housekeeping first.\u00a0 Starting with the two zero issues, Legion of Super-Heroes flowed into the next issue of Legionnaires, and so on.\u00a0 Basically, they were one comic, kind of like how the four Superman titles read as one weekly story in the same era.\u00a0 Eventually, they even put little boxes with numbers in them to help keep track of how the story flowed.\u00a0 Because of that, I\u2019m going to write about both titles in one column, and will use the abbreviations LSH and LNR to denote which title I\u2019m talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Let\u2019s track who turned up in the title:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Legion of Super-Heroes<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live Wire (Garth Ranzz; LSH #0, 62-64, 72, LNR #0, 19-20, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn; LSH #0, 62-76, 78-80, LNR #0, 19-23, 25-36, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen; LSH #0, 62-70, 72-76, 78-80, LNR #0, 19-27, 29-36, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Triad (Luornu Durgo; LNR #0, 19-24, 26-36, LSH #62-68, 70-76, 78-80, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apparition (Tinya Wazzo; LNR #0, 19-23, 25-28, LSH #62-71, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviathan (Gim Allon; LNR #0, 19-23, 25, 28-36, LSH #62-70, 72, 74-76, 78-80, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kid Quantum (James Cullin; LNR #0, LSH #62)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">XS (Jenni Ognats; LNR #0, 19-27, 29-30, 35-36, LSH #62-67, 69-70, 72, 75, 80, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chameleon (Reep Daggle; LNR #0, 19-23, 25-26, 28, 30-36, LSH #62-72, 74-76, 78-80, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg; LNR #0, 19-23, 25-26, 28, 31-36, LSH #62-72, 74-76, 78-80, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox; LNR #19-25, 28-33, 36, LSH #63-67, 69-70, 72, 74-75, 77-80, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spark (Ayla Ranzz; LNR #20-23, 25-30, 33-36, LSH #64-70, 72-74, 76, 78-80, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andromeda (Laurel Gand; LSH #66-70, 80, LNR #23, 25-28, 36, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shrinking Violet (Salu Digby; LSH #66-67, 69-72, 74-76, 78-80, LNR #23-25, 28, 31-36, LSH Annual #6, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinetix (Zoe Saugin; LSH #66-71, 76, 80, LNR #23, 25-26, 32-34, 36, LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gates (LSH #76, 78-80, LNR #33-36)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Boy (Thom Kallor; LSH #76, 78-80, LNR #33-36)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Villains<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Cuspin (LSH #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roderick Doyle (LSH #0, LNR #0, 19)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tangleweb (LSH #62, 67-68)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mano (Fatal Five; LNR #19-20, 35-, LSH #63, 78-80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leland McCauley (LSH #63-65, 72, 78, LNR #20-21, 23, 26)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White Triangle (LSH #63, 67, 70-72, LNR #23-24, 26-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suggin (White Triangle; LSH #63, 71, LNR #27-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arns (White Triangle; LSH #63, 71, LNR #27-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fethro Jorn (White Triangle; LSH #63, 71, LNR #27-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other Daxamite White Triangle (White Triangle; LSH #63, 71, LNR #27-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bur Rac (LNR #21-22, LSH #65)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bandarkat (LSH #65)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caress (LSH #65)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titanor (LSH #65)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Micro (LSH #66)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Composite Man (LNR #25, LSH #69)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roxxas (Daxamite Ambassador; LNR #27-28, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctor Regulus (LSH #72, LNR #29)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning Lord (Mekt Ranzz; LSH #73, LNR #30)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scavenger (LSH #74, LNR #31)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chronos (LSH #75, LNR #32)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unnamed Villain (Disintegrate, Melt, etc.; actually Jan Arrah; LNR #32-34, LSH #76)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nara Minsork (LSH #77)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gatherers (LNR #34)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassador Winema Wazzo (LNR #34, 36, LSH #78)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharok (Fatal Five; LNR #34-36, LSH #78-80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Validus (Fatal Five; LSH #78-80, LNR #35-36)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Empress (Fatal Five; LSH #78-80, LNR #35-36)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuader (Fatal Five; LSH #78-80, LNR #35-36)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proteans (LNR #35)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Chu (LSH #80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dominators (LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Guest Stars<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayla Ranzz (LSH #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luornu Durgo (Brande\u2019s assistant; LSH #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atmos (LNR #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Boy (Thom Kallor; LNR #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Querl Dox (LNR #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultra Boy (Jo Nah, Workforce; LSH #64-65, 72, 74, 76, 80, LNR #21-22, 26-27, 29, 31, 36, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inferno (Workforce; LSH #64-65, 72, LNR #21-22, 26, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evolvo (Sev Tcheru, Workforce; LSH #64-65, 72, 78, LNR #21-22, 26, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spider-Girl (Sussa Paka, Workforce, LSH #64-65, 72, LNR #21-22, 26, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karate Kid (Val Armorr, Workforce; LSH #64-65, 72, LNR #21-22, 26, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live Wire (Garth Ranzz, Workforce; LNR #21-23, 26-30, 36, LSH #65, 73-74, 80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lume (LSH #66)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gates (LSH #66)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan Arrah (Tromite; LSH #71-72, 80, LNR Annual #2, LNR #29, 34, 36)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dirk Morgna (LNR #29)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valor (Lar Gand; LNR #29-32, 34, 36, LSH #73, 76, 80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superboy (Kon-El; LSH #74, LNR #31)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mysa (Sorcerers\u2019 World; LSH #76, LNR #33-34)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting Characters<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mekt Ranzz (LSH #0)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RJ Brande (LSH #0, 63-64, 71-72, 77, 80, LNR #0, 19-20, 24, 27-28, 31-33, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Chu (UP President; LSH #0, 63-64, 66, 71-72, 74, 76, 78, LNR #0, 19-20, 26-27, 29, 31-34, 36, LNR Annual #2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shvaughn Erin (Liaison to Science Police; LSH #0, 72-73, LNR #25, 32, 35, LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marla Latham (LNR #0, 19, 24, 27, 35, LSH #66, 72, 76, 80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassador Winema Wazzo (LNR #0, 23, 26, 28, LSH #64, 70, 72, 76, 80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gigi Cusimano (Science Police; LNR #0, LSH Annual #6, LSH #72)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rond Vidar (LNR #0, 32-33, 35, LSH #75-77)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athramites (LSH #63, 66, LNR Annual #2, LNR #32, 35)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenzil Kem (chef, Legion headquarters; LSH #63, 67, 76, LNR #25, 35)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aven (Imra\u2019s former teacher; LNR #26, 36, LSH #80)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buck Bond (Science Ranger; LNR #28)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murl (Tinya\u2019s father; LNR #28)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek Morgna (Dirk\u2019s father; LNR #29)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lori Morning (aka Future Girl; LSH #75-76, LNR #32-35)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chuck Taine (LSH #76, LNR #33-35)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warden Kreyton (Takron-Galtos; LNR #33, LSH #77)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warden Wafil (Takron-Galtos; LSH #78-79)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officer Dvron (LSH Annual #6)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Let\u2019s take a look at what happened in these books, with some commentary as we go:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 0 &#8211; At the end of Zero Hour, most DC comics had a \u201c0\u201d issue, showcasing the early days of the character or team featured in that book.\u00a0 This provided Mark Waid and Tom McCraw (I\u2019d forgotten that the writing team didn\u2019t change on this book, which is really kind of weird to me now) the perfect chance to start over from scratch.\u00a0 The issue opens on the Ranzz siblings &#8211; Garth, Mekt, and Ayla &#8211; enjoying a joyride in a borrowed cruiser until their ship loses its charge, and they are stuck landing on Korbal.\u00a0 Mekt can\u2019t get the vessel working again, but Ayla suggests that they could get a local lightning beast (think rhinos that channel electricity) to charge it.\u00a0 Garth wakes up screaming in a cheap motel room.\u00a0 It turns out that he was dreaming about something that happened three years ago, and now he\u2019s snuck away from his family, and is waiting for his shuttle to come.\u00a0 On Braal, Rokk Krinn, a magnoball champion with the nickname \u201cCosmic Boy\u201d speaks to the press before boarding his shuttle.\u00a0 When a journalist suggests that his manager, Mr. Cuspin, has a lot of debt, Rokk is confused and hustled onto the shuttle, which is eventually going to Metropolis, after stopping at Winath and Titan (it\u2019s odd how Metropolis is a city while these other places are entire planets or moons).\u00a0 It\u2019s mentioned that there has been conflict between Braal and Titan, but that, with the emergence of the new United Planets, things have improved.\u00a0 On Titan, a Science Police cadet named Imra Ardeen demonstrates her telepathic prowess by discovering that a woman reporting a jewel theft is herself the culprit.\u00a0 Imra helps take the woman down, and her superior makes reference to the fact that she\u2019s going to Earth.\u00a0 Garth boards the shuttle, and ends up sitting with Rokk.\u00a0 They notice that RJ Brande, the third richest sentient in the cosmos also boards the shuttle, which is able to travel very quickly due to Brande\u2019s stargate technology.\u00a0 Imra boards the shuttle on Titan, and is not impressed to pick up Garth\u2019s lewd thoughts about her.\u00a0 When the shuttle arrives on Earth, Imra notices that some workers are planning on shooting Brande.\u00a0 She calls out a warning, and Rokk and Garth both use their powers to stop the assassins.\u00a0 Imra yells at them to catch the ones getting away, which they do quite easily, before the SP arrive.\u00a0 Brande\u2019s assistants, Doyle and Luornu Durgo rush to him, and its clear that he has an idea growing in his mind.\u00a0 Later, Brande meets with UP President Chu to discuss an idea he has, to fund a symbol that the new UP could unify around.\u00a0 Imra finds that things aren\u2019t as positive as she\u2019d expected at Science Police Earth, since her commander is prejudiced against telepaths.\u00a0 We meet Officer Shvaughn Erin (who is a woman again in the new LSH mythos).\u00a0 Luornu comes to get Imra, telling her she brings a message from Brande.\u00a0 Rokk trains, and his manager is gruff with him.\u00a0 Luornu arrives there too, and gives him the same message.\u00a0 Garth, who has been looking for his brother Mekt, has managed to get himself arrested, making it easy for Luornu to find him, although not before he nearly loses a brawl in the holding cells.\u00a0 The three teens are brought together at Brande\u2019s offices, where Cuspin tells Rokk that he\u2019ll do all the talking when they meet with the rich man.\u00a0 Imra exposes that Cuspin has been using Rokk\u2019s money to pay off his gambling debts, and when he goes to hit Imra, the others act in her defense.\u00a0 Rokk fires the man, and the teens enter Brande\u2019s office, where they find holograms of the heroes of the 20th century, Superman, Batman, the Flash, and Wonder Woman.\u00a0 Brande, with Luornu at his side, tells them about how he wants to bring back an era of heroes.\u00a0 He wants the three to be the beginning of a team that will act as a symbol of heroism, a Legion of Super-Heroes.\u00a0 He admits he doesn\u2019t know if this plan will work, but has them agree to give him three months to try.\u00a0 They all agree.\u00a0 Elsewhere, Doyle, Brande\u2019s supposed partner, is revealed to have been behind the assassination attempt, although we also learn that he is working for some \u201cmasters\u201d, who are likely to kill the man he sends to update them.\u00a0 He tells his new lieutenant that he will have another shot at Brande at the upcoming UP summit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 0 &#8211; RJ Brande shows a video to his first three Legionnaires of them in their costumes, and they all react differently. We learn that Rokk and Imra are fifteen, and Garth is fourteen (which means he was eleven when he got his powers, despite looking much older than that last issue).\u00a0 We also learn that they are keeping the newer Live Wire name for Garth, that the team is attending a UP conference, and that they\u2019ve asked for new costumes.\u00a0 Doyle is concerned that the United Planets are coalescing too quickly, although he has a plan to kill Brande and the Legion.\u00a0 He sends two assassins.\u00a0 Tinya Wazzo rushes towards the UP conference.\u00a0 She\u2019s late and worried that her mother will be upset with her.\u00a0 While rushing across the conference chamber, she phases through the large UP symbol globe in the centre of the room, and notices something strange about it, but her mother doesn\u2019t give her a chance to explain.\u00a0 The President introduces the Legion, but some of the delegates are not impressed and question if they\u2019re needed.\u00a0 Imra notices that people are locked in the chamber, and scans the crowd, picking up Tinya\u2019s concerns about the globe.\u00a0 Imra realizes it\u2019s a bomb, but yells that out so people start panicking.\u00a0 Garth blasts a hole in the roof.\u00a0 Luornu saves Brande and the President from falling debris by splitting into three, while Rokk lifts the globe out of the chamber just before it explodes.\u00a0 In the aftermath, Imra identifies Doyle\u2019s two assassins, and they chase after them.\u00a0 Tinya\u2019s mother can\u2019t find her.\u00a0 The Legion chases the two assassins into a crummy neighbourhood.\u00a0 Rokk traps one in bits of metal, while Garth and Imra search for the other.\u00a0 She is about to shoot Imra, but Tinya phases out of a wall, frightening her.\u00a0 Garth zaps the woman, and Rokk joins them.\u00a0 Garth suggests that Tinya join the team, and Rokk says he has ideas about adding someone else.\u00a0 Shortly after that, the Legion, now with Apparition (Tinya) and Triad (Luornu) on the squad, present themselves to a cheering crowd.\u00a0 Brande is sad to see Luornu leave his office (how old is she, anyway?), and gets upset when he learns that the President wants to send the team on a mission for media purposes.\u00a0 The President calls her assistant, to get him to call the Science Police.\u00a0 Later, at a gathering of SPs, Lt. Gim Allon (how old is he?), who is being lauded for his ability to change his height, receives an datapad with news he finds interesting.\u00a0 On Xanthu, two officials are forced to choose one of their prospective planetary champions (Star Boy, Atmos, and Kid Quantum are the options) to do something for the United Planets.\u00a0 They choose Kid Quantum, handing him a datapad that makes him upset.\u00a0 In a lab somewhere, SPs come to collect the speedster Jenni Ognats.\u00a0 Some Durlans talk in their language, and hand a datapad to one of them.\u00a0 SP Officer Gigi Cusimano goes to the home of Lyle Norg, but after his door is opened, she can\u2019t find anyone.\u00a0 A young kid appears behind her, and introduces himself as Lyle.\u00a0 Querl Dox works in a lab with Rond Vidar, and is so engrossed in his work that he ignores a pad handed to him by an SP.\u00a0 We finally get to read one of these things; it informs Querl that he\u2019s been chosen to join the Legion, and that if he doesn\u2019t go, his planet will be in violation of its treaty with the UP.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 62 &#8211; Rokk and Garth are trying out the new virtual reality training equipment that RJ Brande has provided the Legion, while Imra, Tinya, and Luornu play some jokes on them.\u00a0 Rokk reminds them that they have to get to UP headquarters, and it appears that Luornu may have a crush on Rokk.\u00a0 They attract some attention along the way, and when they arrive, they are surprised to see others wearing the generic Legion costume standing around outside.\u00a0 They hang back to watch as Gim, aka Leviathan, introduces himself to James, aka Kid Quantum.\u00a0 Jenni, aka XS, rushes up to them, warning that a Durlan is approaching.\u00a0 Gim grows in size, telling the others to capture \u201cit\u201d.\u00a0 The Durlan changes shape, and Rokk orders the actual team to intervene.\u00a0 Garth shocks Gim so he\u2019ll let the Durlan go, and Rokk questions why they are all there.\u00a0 The Durlan returns to his normal shape, and Imra\u2019s scan reveals that he\u2019s calm.\u00a0 Lyle, aka Invisible Kid, reveals that the Durlan is wearing a Legion outfit too, doesn\u2019t speak Interlac, and is code-named Chameleon.\u00a0 They all introduce themselves, and Rokk is still surprised to learn that there are more members of the team.\u00a0 He\u2019s even more surprised when Gim announces that he\u2019s been appointed team leader (the first five Legionnaires voted and gave that role to Rokk).\u00a0 Gim runs a briefing; they are to go searching for some missing freighters, and explains how transuits (30th century spacesuits) work, making a point of telling Kid Quantum to wear his belt, which gives him his powers, on the outside of his suit.\u00a0 James complains about the generic outfits, and when the team departs on their cruiser, we see that they are all already wearing new outfits, which are basically the Chris Sprouse designs from Legionnaires.\u00a0 They find a damaged freighter and start to explore it, splitting into teams.\u00a0 Imra feels some \u201chorrible thoughts\u201d and runs into a wall of sticky stuff; she and Garth saw something run into the shadows.\u00a0 Rokk tries to gather the team, but Gim has them rush in.\u00a0 Lyle and Chameleon find some dead bodies cocooned in the same sticky stuff, and are then attacked by a giant spider-like alien.\u00a0 They escape, and Garth and James save them.\u00a0 James almost gets hit by some webbing, but Tinya saves him.\u00a0 The rest of the team gathers, just as the alien launches what look like little laser shooting drones from his antennae.\u00a0 Jenni freaks out and runs away, but then runs back.\u00a0 Cos saves Gim, who wants them to pursue the alien.\u00a0 Lyle insists on looking for survivors instead.\u00a0 Kid Quantum goes after the alien, who calls himself Tangleweb, and uses his stasis belt to hold him in place.\u00a0 As the others approach, James\u2019s belt shorts out, and the alien grabs him, breaking his neck.\u00a0 XS, Cham, and Triad save the survivors while Gim and the others stand over James\u2019s body.\u00a0 Gim wants to pursue the alien out onto the hull, and Rokk insists on going with him.\u00a0 They are too late, and Tangleweb escapes.\u00a0 Gim is hard on himself, but Rokk calms him down.\u00a0 Gim resigns as leader, giving the job to Rokk.\u00a0 He wants to resign from the Legion as well, but Rokk gives him a speech about the Legion\u2019s destiny, and convinces him to stay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 19 &#8211; XS watches as people prepare Kid Quantum\u2019s coffin for his funeral.\u00a0 She worries that she is too afraid to stay in the Legion.\u00a0 RJ Brande is furious that President Chu drafted new members into the Legion; as they argue, they don\u2019t know that Apparition is eavesdropping.\u00a0 Triad pulls her back, and then hacks into the camera in the President\u2019s office (she has the codes from when she was Brande\u2019s assistant).\u00a0 Brande insists that the Legion be more independent, and makes reference to the nine of them, which confuses the President, as she counts ten, not including Kid Quantum.\u00a0 The kids listening in are confused by this too.\u00a0 Saturn Girl tries to telepathically interrogate the assassins that tried to kill Brande, but they\u2019ve been prepared to block her scans, which is disturbing for her.\u00a0 Live Wire gets angry and fires his lightning at them in their cell, which allows Imra that chance to get past their blocks.\u00a0 Jenni begins packing, thinking that she\u2019s going to sneak away from the Legion.\u00a0 Just then, Cosmic Boy comes to her room, wanting to discuss how she panicked during the mission.\u00a0 He encourages her to face her fears.\u00a0 Brande calls Querl Dox, asking him why he hasn\u2019t come to the Legion yet; Dox hasn\u2019t read his messages.\u00a0 Brande encourages him to hurry up and join them, which startles Marla.\u00a0 Apparently Dox works for Brande (which makes it even stranger that he didn\u2019t know he was being drafted), and has caused a lot of damage in wrecked labs.\u00a0 Doyle is working in his office when he sees a news broadcast identifying him as being behind the murder attempt on Brande.\u00a0 He panics and calls his aide Jando to help him flee.\u00a0 Invisible Kid appears in front of him, and Jando turns out to be Chameleon in disguise.\u00a0 They easily arrest Doyle (and we learn that Chameleon\u2019s name is Reep).\u00a0 The Legion gathers for Kid Quantum\u2019s funeral, where Rokk gives a speech about James\u2019s confidence.\u00a0 XS notices that everyone is frozen &#8211; it seems that James\u2019s quantum belt (which had previously shorted out and wasn\u2019t working) was activated, and that the coffin is exploding.\u00a0 Jenni pulls most of the team, Brande, and the President, out of the way, but is not sure she can make it to Rokk before he\u2019s engulfed in the slow motion explosion.\u00a0 She runs away, but only to use the Legion flagpole as a slingshot, giving her the speed to push through the stasis field and grab Rokk, who then saves her from some debris.\u00a0 She announces that she\u2019d like to stay on the team, and no one discusses why the coffin might have exploded (or that Brande\u2019s closest assistant tried to kill him).\u00a0 On the planet Angtu, it seems that everyone is dead because one side of a civil war bought chemical weapons from Leland McCauley that killed everyone on the planet except for Mano, who considers using his explosive hand to kill himself.\u00a0 Instead, he uses it to blow up the entire planet, which he somehow survives, floating in space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 63 &#8211; Some maintenance men in a sewer in a complex owned by Leland McCauley discover Mano, who kills one of them.\u00a0 Apparition tries to teach Chameleon to speak Interlac, but finds it difficult.\u00a0 She hears some noise, and sees Triad, Invisible Kid, and Live Wire running from some little aliens that apparently want to accessorize their uniforms.\u00a0 The rest of the team is going through the same thing.\u00a0 RJ Brande enters, and explains that the Athramites are there to consult on their image.\u00a0 He takes the team in three flying cars to show them their new headquarters, a beautiful new building shaped like a giant L.\u00a0 The President wants to show them around, but the kids rush past her.\u00a0 They notice how big the meeting table is, suggesting that more people will be joining the team, and admire the VR facilities, the size of the personal quarters, and the gym.\u00a0 Tinya, Luornu, and Imra meet Tenzil Kem, who is their personal chef, and a bit of a goof.\u00a0 Brande takes Lyle and Rokk to the lab, and introduces them to Brainiac 5, who at first Lyle assumes is a lab tech.\u00a0 Brande explains that he\u2019s a Legionnaire, which surprises them.\u00a0 They hear an alarm, and everyone convenes in the monitor room (I guess the President left) to learn that McCauley is asking for help in his Moondome (in the snarkiest way possible).\u00a0 The kids head to their cruiser.\u00a0 Somewhere else, four men dressed in black with white triangles on their breasts look down on an unidentified planet and disapprove of the diversity they see; it seems they are Daxamites, and somehow connected to Doyle, whose first name is apparently Roderick.\u00a0 The team approaches the moon, and enter the Moondome, where things are a little chaotic.\u00a0 An SP grudgingly helps them, letting them know that someone is killing McCauley\u2019s workers and wrecking his equipment.\u00a0 They meet with McCauley, who shows them a video of Mano ranting about McCauley\u2019s chemical weapons.\u00a0 In the sewers, Mano kills the SPs that went after him.\u00a0 Rokk splits the team into two squads to search, putting Gim in charge of the second team.\u00a0 Rokk\u2019s team isn\u2019t having much luck, when Imra picks up Mano\u2019s thoughts just before he attacks.\u00a0 He moves to kill Imra, but Lyle manages to call in the other team, and XS runs right into Mano, slamming him into a wall.\u00a0 Rokk tries to hold him, but can\u2019t.\u00a0 Gim punches him, sending him flying and breaking his helmet.\u00a0 Mano yells about being mutated by McCauley\u2019s gas.\u00a0 He now stands against the side of the Moondome, and moves his hand towards it.\u00a0 Garth calls his bluff, and we see the side of the dome explode.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 20 &#8211; We back up a bit, and see Mano destroy the dome Leland McCauley has built on the moon.\u00a0 The Legionnaires all collapse as the atmosphere escapes.\u00a0 XS watches as Rokk pulls a corridor from beneath the surface up to their level.\u00a0 Jenni tries to get everyone inside it, but collapses.\u00a0 Instead, it\u2019s Chameleon who turns into a big blob, picks them all up, and gets them into an airlock.\u00a0 Everyone recovers very quickly, and get back to trying to find Mano.\u00a0 Rokk gets a call from Brande, who tells them that Mano is so powerful that he blew up his entire planet, Angtu.\u00a0 Brande wants the team to leave, but they insist on finishing their job.\u00a0 Invisible Kid suggests that they call Brainiac 5 for some help; he is annoyed at being interrupted.\u00a0 McCauley is freaking out about everything that is happening. When Brande calls him, he\u2019s rude to him.\u00a0 One of McCauley\u2019s workers returns to his quarters after his shift, to find that Mano is in his apartment.\u00a0 Mano kills the guy and lies down to rest; Imra senses the murder.\u00a0 Brainy explains that Mano needs to recharge his powers if he\u2019s to destroy the moon, and calculates that the team has less than twenty-five minutes to find him.\u00a0 The team heads to the living quarters, based on Imra\u2019s knowledge.\u00a0 They send Apparition to search through all the apartments, but as that\u2019s taking too long, Rokk and Gim work together to rip the roofs off all the units, revealing Mano.\u00a0 Mano uses a blaster to cut a hole through the floor and carve himself a tunnel.\u00a0 He busts into another part of the facility, where he finds McCauley.\u00a0 McCauley doesn\u2019t say anything as Mano threatens him, because it\u2019s really Chameleon.\u00a0 Invisible Kid grabs Mano\u2019s arm, and Cham punches him out.\u00a0 Later, McCauley has Mano trussed up, and is gloating.\u00a0 He suggests that the Legion come work for him, offering to pay more than Brande.\u00a0 The team leaves (leaving Mano in his custody, which is weird).\u00a0 In the elevator, Rokk tells Garth that the President wants to see him.\u00a0 Later, Garth meets with the President (whose name still hasn\u2019t been revealed).\u00a0 She tells him that his planet, Winath, has sent someone else to be their representative on the Legion; his sister Ayla.\u00a0 The President makes it clear that she\u2019s there to replace him.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 64 &#8211; A young man dressed in a colourful costume (we know he\u2019s Ultra Boy, in his original look, but with a single earring and stubble) enters a bar and ends up winning a brief brawl.\u00a0 He asks for directions to Legion Plaza, and flies off.\u00a0 In the headquarters, Ayla shows off her powers to the team, and takes the codename Spark.\u00a0 While some of the kids are happy to see her, it\u2019s awkward that Garth is so unhappy.\u00a0 Ayla explains how she got her powers from the lightning beasts, and how they put her and her siblings in comas.\u00a0 When she came to, Mekt was already gone.\u00a0 She explains that her planet chose her to be their representative in the Legion.\u00a0 Brande joins Rokk and Garth, who are talking about how the President told Garth that Ayla is his replacement.\u00a0 Brande claims to have argued on his behalf, but was unsuccessful.\u00a0 Garth gets into an argument with Ayla, blaming her for this situation and, when she calls him irresponsible, claiming he hates her.\u00a0 Imra gathers Rokk and Garth and takes them to the President.\u00a0 She reveals that Garth hasn\u2019t been honest with them, revealing that he\u2019s a runaway.\u00a0 Apparently fourteen is the age of majority in the UP, but not on Winath, so that\u2019s a problem.\u00a0 The President then reveals that Mekt, the brother Garth is searching for, is wanted.\u00a0 The President tells Rokk that he can decide to keep Garth or Ayla, but that he has to choose properly to keep her respect.\u00a0 At the headquarters, Brainiac 5 works on an experiment, and we see that there is some rivalry between him and Invisible Kid with regards to the values of theoretical over practical sciences.\u00a0 We see what\u2019s happening throughout the headquarters, with a strange visual effect and the narration making it clear that someone is watching.\u00a0 We see that Tinya\u2019s mother is angry with her for joining the Legion, rejecting her as her daughter.\u00a0 Gim is trying to teach Cham how to speak Interlac, Luornu trains, and Jenni tries to console Tinya, who is attractive to the watcher.\u00a0 Imra confronts Ultra Boy outside the building; that\u2019s who&#8217;s been spying on people.\u00a0 As they talk, Ayla attacks, and Ultra Boy starts to fight back.\u00a0 Garth sees that Ultra Boy has grabbed Ayla, and he attacks in a rage.\u00a0 They fight for a couple of pages, wrecking the area around the headquarters.\u00a0 Leviathan finally breaks them apart, and shows Garth how much damage he\u2019s caused.\u00a0 Ultra Boy immediately stands down, and Rokk tells off both him and Garth.\u00a0 Garth realizes how badly he screwed up, and quits the team.\u00a0 Ultra Boy apologizes to him, and makes reference to the \u201cother lightning guy\u201d, which Garth assumes must be Mekt.\u00a0 They fly off together, and Garth suggests that Ultra Boy should join the Legion.\u00a0 He says he\u2019s already on a team, and we see Leland McCauley sitting in a room, surrounded by four costumed characters, two of whom are easily recognized as Karate Kid and Evolvo-Lad.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 21 &#8211; Garth narrates, talking about Asteroid 42464-ST, where the Science Police store hazardous weapons.\u00a0 Some thieves have broken in, and are \u201ctagging\u201d crates, when Garth\u2019s lightning alerts them to his presence.\u00a0 They assume that it\u2019s the Legion who have come to get them, but it\u2019s actually Workforce, Leland McCauley\u2019s team, made up of Live Wire, Ultra Boy, Evolvo, Inferno, and Spider-Girl.\u00a0 McCauley commands them over a video link, and he forbids Garth from using his powers, as he doesn\u2019t know if they will set off any of the weapons.\u00a0 Instead, he orders Spider-Girl to stop them with her hair, which isn\u2019t effective.\u00a0 Inferno (this is a blond girl, not Dirk Morgna) burns one of the thieves to death, and then Ultra Boy makes his move.\u00a0 The fact that he can only use one of his powers at a time leaves him vulnerable to attack from behind.\u00a0 McCauley orders Evolvo (he\u2019s an odder-looking version of the old Evolvo Lad from the Heroes of Lallor) to turn into his ape form, and he goes wild, hurting Karate Kid.\u00a0 Meanwhile, as the Workforce is falling all over each other, the thieves use their tractor beam to load the crates they are stealing onto their ship.\u00a0 McCauley sends Ultra Boy after them, but one of the thieves shoots him while he\u2019s flying (since he can\u2019t be invulnerable and fly), and he falls back into the asteroid facility.\u00a0 McCauley is furious, and orders them back to their ship; Garth thinks about the Legion.\u00a0 We see that the Legion is in a briefing being run by Brainiac 5.\u00a0 Lyle asks about his name, which angers Brainy.\u00a0 He talks about an alien race called the Wakeets, who are known for taking on distasteful jobs.\u00a0 He explains that they built a prison called Planet Hell that was designed to be inescapable (by Coluans), accessible only by an electro-magnetic tunnel.\u00a0 The tunnel broke, an everyone has been trapped in there for a while, with only sporadic and confusing communication.\u00a0 Since the Wakeets sold the prison to the UP, the Coluans have built a new tunnel, and the UP wants Brainiac 5 to fix the tunnel equipment on Planet Hell, while the rest of the Legion are to assess the sanity of the inmates and guards.\u00a0 Planet Hell, we learn, is inside the sun.\u00a0 The team\u2019s cruiser makes it through to the prison, and a guy that seems a little crazy comes to great them.\u00a0 Everyone is wearing fitted goggles, to block the sun\u2019s light.\u00a0 The guy identifies himself as the Warden, and says he doesn\u2019t remember where the power grid is.\u00a0 Brainy, Rokk, Tinya, Cham, and Ayla head off (the whole team is wearing jet packs) to find the power grid using Brainy\u2019s schematics, leaving the rest to talk to the warden.\u00a0 The warden shows them around, and we see that the inmates are all still in their cells, but learn that the rest of the guards tried to fly away and burned up in the sun.\u00a0 Tinya finds the power grid by phasing through some rocks, and Ayla excavates a tunnel to access it.\u00a0 The Legionnaires fly through the tunnel system, but are approached by Coluan security systems.\u00a0 Some flying disks attach themselves to Chameleon, and appear to kill him, while the ones that attach to Brainy (who hates being called Brainy) recognize that he\u2019s Coluan and shut off.\u00a0 Cham turns out to be okay; he changed shape to resemble one of the disks.\u00a0 The warden seems a little squirrely.\u00a0 Another craft flies over the prison, and fires a green beam into the hole that Ayla dug, filling it with green flame.\u00a0 The warden explains to XS that with the security grid now destroyed, all the prisoners\u2019 cell doors are about to open in ten seconds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 65 &#8211; A number of vessels begin to dock on Planet Hell, while the warden, who is named Bur Rac, runs to greet them.\u00a0 We see dozens of diverse prisoners rushing towards some of the Legionnaires.\u00a0 They fly off with their jetpacks, and Lyle sends Jenni to check on the squad that was in the power grid when it got torpedoed.\u00a0 She finds them; Rokk covered them in metal before the blast hit.\u00a0 Rokk, who is really powerful in this reboot, decides the jetpacks are too slow, and instead flies everyone on scraps of metal.\u00a0 Imra determines that the ships were sent to pick up the prisoners, and we realize that the lead ship is commanded by the people who were stealing weapons in LNR 21.\u00a0 Gim starts wrecking all the ships so no one can leave, including the Legion\u2019s.\u00a0 Bur Rac calls his \u201cmasters\u201d, who remain unidentified.\u00a0 We learn that he\u2019s not the warden, but that he overthrew him five years prior (I still don\u2019t see how he would have been able to feed all the prisoners for that long in the middle of the sun, without any supplies being sent).\u00a0 His communication is cut off, and he hears the sounds of the fighting outside.\u00a0 Gim is effective in fighting the prisoners, as is Lyle, who takes off their goggles, blinding them.\u00a0 Imra puts Bandarkat, who is about to kill Lyle, to sleep, but is herself almost attacked.\u00a0 A new ship flies in, and starts shooting at the prisoners.\u00a0 The Workforce emerges from the ship (they followed the weapons thieves), and loses communication with McCauley as they do.\u00a0 The Workforce doesn\u2019t have goggles, so they need to get them from the prisoners.\u00a0 Gim smashes their ship too, while Imra lets everyone know they are there to fight on their side.\u00a0 Cos\u2019s group joins in, and Ayla saves Imra from some beings that look a bit like Gil\u2019dishpan, which angers Garth.\u00a0 Inferno almost kills Cham when she burns a prisoner, while Triad saves her.\u00a0 Rokk doesn\u2019t understand why Brainy is just standing around looking at the sun.\u00a0 Tinya saves him, and when Jo locks eyes with her, they are both clearly smitten.\u00a0 Titanor, a crook from Titan, gets control of Spider-Girl, but Lyle takes him out.\u00a0 The weapons thieves start handing out their weapons, and Bur Rac notices that the electro-magnetic tunnel is collapsing.\u00a0 Rokk notices that it\u2019s getting hotter, and Brainy explains that with the power grid down, the force shields that were protecting the prison from the sun\u2019s heat are failing.\u00a0 Rokk wants to know if he can fix it, but he points out that they are surrounded by armed prisoners, so it probably doesn\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 22 &#8211; The Legion and the Workforce are surrounded, but Brainiac 5 appeals to reason, claiming he can fix the Coluan power grid.\u00a0 Bur Rac seems to have control of the prisoners, who allow Brainy to go, so long as the rest of the heroes remain as hostages.\u00a0 Brainy wants Evolvo and Saturn Girl to help him.\u00a0 Invisible Kid insists that he could be helpful, and answers a weird science question to prove it.\u00a0 When Brainy\u2019s squad reaches the power grid, Lyle seems nervous about going in the hole, and Brainy puts him down, and then intelligence-level shames Evolvo.\u00a0 Brainy explains that he wants Imra to monitor the prisoners and their friends.\u00a0 We see that Ayla and Garth are in a cell together, which gives them another chance to argue.\u00a0 Garth also shares that he\u2019s afraid that the lightning makes him more angry and violent.\u00a0 XS and Karate Kid talk, and he shares his opinion of Leland McCauley, while probing the cell\u2019s forceshiel for weaknesses.\u00a0 Leviathan is frustrated to not be able to communicate with Chameleon.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy suggests that Apparition use her powers to stay cool, as the prison gets hotter and hotter.\u00a0 She slips into the cell next door, and finds Ultra Boy and Spider-Girl making out, which rattles both her and Jo.\u00a0 The prisoners start to argue with each other, and one kills three.\u00a0 Brainy admits that he doesn\u2019t think he can fix the power grid, not knowing that Bur Rac has joined him.\u00a0 He\u2019s about to shoot Brainy when Lyle comes up with an idea.\u00a0 Triad and Inferno don\u2019t get along well in their cell.\u00a0 The escaped prisoners fight with one another.\u00a0 Evolvo points out that the field protecting them is getting weaker.\u00a0 Neither Evolvo nor Brainy think that Lyle\u2019s plan could work, but Bur Rac points a gun at Brainy and insists he try it.\u00a0 Karate Kid breaks him and XS out of their cell.\u00a0 Imra sees that things are getting dangerous, and tries to get Bur Rac to broadcast his thoughts to all the prisoners, to calm them.\u00a0 He ends up sharing his racist opinions of them, so all the prisoners decide to come and kill him.\u00a0 While Lyle works, Evolvo changes into his ape form, so that Imra can guide him to protect them.\u00a0 He puts together a barrier that the prisoners bang on.\u00a0 Lyle has finished his plan, reversing the polarity of the forceshield around the prison asteroid, so that it is spit out of the star it resides in (now it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s not our sun).\u00a0 The prisoners break through, and are about to shoot Imra, but Lyle sets up another field in the room, protecting them.\u00a0 The rioting prisoners realize that they are out of the star, and stop fighting.\u00a0 Later, we see that Lyle has put another field around the heroes, as they wait for the SP to come and fix things and take them home.\u00a0 When Rokk tries to talk to Garth, he mistakenly thinks that Rokk is going to invite him back to the Legion.\u00a0 When it\u2019s clear he isn\u2019t, he heads over to stand with the Workforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 66 &#8211; The Legion is expanding again, and the newest recruit, Laurel Gand, codenamed Andromeda, displays her vast Daxamite powers to Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl, while the President explains that her people rarely leave their planet.\u00a0 The Daxamites\u2019 weakness to lead necessitates that Laurel wear a transsuit.\u00a0 When Rokk tries to be friendly with her, Laurel storms off after saying that she isn\u2019t there to \u201cintermingle.\u201d\u00a0 Imra questions how they can have a xenophobe on the team.\u00a0 The President mentions that Xanthu is about to send a replacement for Kid Quantum, but that he\u2019s been in a space-cruiser accident and needs to recover.\u00a0 On the Planet Silvan, Leviathan and Chameleon meet Lume, a light-based creature who wants to try out for the Legion, but also doesn\u2019t want to travel in space.\u00a0 Triad, XS, and Invisible Kid watch this on a monitor, and discuss bringing some of the Workforce, specifically Karate Kid, into the Legion.\u00a0 Apparition and Spark are on Winath, where three candidates &#8211; Ion, Micro, and Shrinking Violet &#8211; are to show off their abilities.\u00a0 They fight a battle-drone in a small stadium, but when Ion shrinks very small, she collapses in pain.\u00a0 A medic is called, but Ion is dead.\u00a0 On the planet Aleph, a young woman named Zoe tries to use her powers to locate archeological objects, while her brother rushes her to get ready for her Legion tryout.\u00a0 Gim and Cham are on Vyrga, where they look for someone named Gates.\u00a0 They meet him (he looks like an insect), but Gates refuses to leave with them, calling the Legion a \u201ccommando unit\u201d and a \u201cteenage death squad\u201d.\u00a0 He teleports away, but Gim almost catches him.\u00a0 Gates teleports Gim away, and he almost falls off a cliff.\u00a0 Cham saves him.\u00a0 Back in the HQ, Luornu, Lyle, Jenni, and Imra watch this.\u00a0 When Marla Latham joins them, they let him know about the murder on Imsk.\u00a0 There, Shrinking Violet explains to Tinya, Ayla, and some SPs that Ion was killed by an auraflux blade, basically, a knife that was implanted into her, that could not shrink when she did.\u00a0 Micro tries to make it sound like Violet did this deed.\u00a0 On Aleph, Zoe picks out an outfit for her try-out.\u00a0 On Imsk, Violet finds video evidence showing that Micro implanted the blade on Ion.\u00a0 When he tries to get away, Violet catches him and gives him a good beating.\u00a0 Ayla and Tinya offer her a spot on the team, but she gets all shy until they review the footage of her fighting Micro, and make her feel that she\u2019s earned her place.\u00a0 On Aleph, Zoe introduces herself as Kinetix, and shows that she has the ability to animate objects and control them.\u00a0 Both Cham and especially Gim appear a bit smitten, and offer her a place on the team.\u00a0 Later, the Legion is assembled, and we see the three new members in their uniforms.\u00a0 Rokk wants to help Laurel with her lead problem, and Brainy appears very distracted by her presence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 23 &#8211; Andromeda storms out of some room, claiming yet again that she doesn\u2019t want anything to do with her teammates.\u00a0 She storms past Brainiac 5, who is again rendered speechless by her.\u00a0 Invisible Kid takes him to the lounge, where he has a gift for everyone on the team.\u00a0 He\u2019s crafted rings for them all that contain tracking beacons and communicators, but that also allow them to fly.\u00a0 While the rest enjoy their flying, Lyle explains to Brainy that he used the floating substance that Brainy created by accident to make the rings, which now make him very popular.\u00a0 Laurel is in her room, talking to a Daxamite, Obin Der, on the video screen.\u00a0 She shows yet again that she\u2019s xenophobic, and is thankful that she\u2019s wearing a transsuit (which somehow lets her loincloth and hair hang freely, but is also clearly over her clothes) so she doesn\u2019t have to touch them.\u00a0 Obin Der reminds her that she was chosen for this mission but if she hates it that much, she could return to Daxam and lose her powers; he suggests instead that she try to make friends.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy suggests that, now that they have communicators, the team can take some time off.\u00a0 Apparition wants to go out dancing, which excites Triad.\u00a0 Leviathan, Rokk, and Chameleon decide to play in VR instead, and Saturn Girl decides to join them.\u00a0 Laurel asks if she can come with the other girls.\u00a0 Live Wire wakes up from another dream about his brother, and gets a call from Rokk, who wants to tell him about the flight rings.\u00a0 When Garth tries to brag about how well Leland McCauley treats him, McCauley interrupts the call to yell at Garth for being lazy.\u00a0 The girls get ready to go out, and Kinetix changes Shrinking Violet\u2019s dress into something very frilly and purple.\u00a0 They fly off, gossiping about the boys.\u00a0 The club they want to go to, Club Stargate, is designed around the movie Stargate, which seems kind of weird.\u00a0 The bouncer, dressed in Ancient Egyptian clothes, won\u2019t let them skip the line.\u00a0 Some tough looking guys complain about Luornu being a Carggite.\u00a0 Tinya\u2019s mother spots her, and drags her away.\u00a0 One of Luornu\u2019s selves almost says something about her own childhood, but another stops her.\u00a0 Rokk and Imra come to the end of their VR game, and almost kiss, but their helmets get in the way.\u00a0 They both seem shook by this development.\u00a0 As the girls wait to get in the club, and as Zoe keeps changing Vi\u2019s dress (including in the mix one of original Vi\u2019s older Legion costumes), the tough guys start to assault an amphibious sentient.\u00a0 Laurel goes after them, but when she hears their racist rhetoric and sees that they are wearing white triangles on their necklaces, she lets them go.\u00a0 Zoe fixes the alien\u2019s helmet, and then unwittingly (I don\u2019t understand that part) changes Vi\u2019s dress into something revealing and sexy.\u00a0 The bouncer tells Vi that she can come in the club now, and she shrinks out of sight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 67 &#8211; A random spaceship (that has a bit of an Alien Legion vibe going on) is attacked by Tangleweb, who encases the crew in his webbing and talks about eating their brains.\u00a0 Leviathan is brooding in the Legion\u2019s memorial hall when Cosmic Boy comes to get him for a meeting.\u00a0 Not everyone on the team is okay with Rokk\u2019s decision to only take some Legionnaires to hunt down Tangleweb.\u00a0 His reasoning is that they will likely be fighting in cramped quarters, and not every team member is suited to this threat.\u00a0 Triad is the most upset, and then Invisible Kid.\u00a0 Gim mocks Saturn Girl for wanting to go, but that\u2019s more of an outlet for his personal guilt surrounding Kid Quantum\u2019s death.\u00a0 Kinetix asks for a recap of what happened, and then Luornu storms off.\u00a0 Rokk drags her back magnetically, making it clear again what his reasoning is.\u00a0 Luornu still leaves the meeting, and in the hallway, she splits into her three selves, who argue and then go their separate ways.\u00a0 As the squad (Spark, Chameleon, Andromeda, Kinetix, Apparition, Rokk, and Gim) are about to leave, they discover that Lyle has snuck aboard, and Rokk boots him off the ship.\u00a0 Later, Tinya reconnoiters a vessel that Tangleweb has left adrift.\u00a0 There\u2019s a device on it that was designed to track Tangleweb\u2019s ship (convenient, that is).\u00a0 On Earth, Lyle goes to see someone named Dobe, and gets him to lend him an Earthgov ship called the Shadowstalker so he can go after his friends; Lyle predicts he\u2019s not going to survive this mission.\u00a0 Rokk\u2019s cruiser catches up with Tangleweb\u2019s ship, and the team is surprised when he attacks them, breaching their hull and coming after them.\u00a0 He takes out Rokk and Ayla quickly, and manages to evade the others.\u00a0 Laurel refuses to touch the creature, and has to be told to use her laser vision, which hurts the creature, and he retreats, taking Rokk and Ayla with him.\u00a0 Laurel seals the hull while Zoe helps Gem out of the webbing he got stuck in.\u00a0 Gim gets Laurel to push their damaged ship, following Tangleweb\u2019s trajectory.\u00a0 They land on a planet where they are immediately attacked by dozens of spider aliens.\u00a0 On Earth, one of Luornu (the one that stays in her regular costume when she splits) gets attacked by three White Triangle guys, who give her a beating that her other two selves feel.\u00a0 She\u2019s left bleeding on a sidewalk with a white triangle painted on her and the ground, and a sign reading \u201caliens go home\u201d lying next to her.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 24 &#8211; This issue opens with a recap of the last issue of LSH, but in explaining what happened with Triad, it refers to her three selves as Triad-Purple, Triad-Neutral, and Triad-Orange, referring to the colouring of their uniforms when the split, and in panels that are detailed enough, their eye colours.\u00a0 Triad-Purple, along with Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, and XS, searches for the missing Triad-Neutral, who is the one that got the beatdown.\u00a0 They find the headquarters of the White Triangle, an empty space strewn with hate-filled graffiti and paper leaflets.\u00a0 Imra makes the connection with the thoughts that she read in Bur Rac\u2019s head, and they wonder if something is going on to lead to a rise in xenophobia.\u00a0 Triad-Purple notices that Violet seems shook, and Vi feels suspicious about what happened when Andromeda went after some White Triangle thugs on the girls\u2019 club night.\u00a0 We see that Triad-Neutral is in the hospital, unconscious, with Marla and Triad-Orange standing over her.\u00a0 Brande and Brainy are also there.\u00a0 Brande makes some vague reference to the fact that the Carggite people won\u2019t help being his fault, while Brainy tries to figure out what to do (because apparently the 30th century equivalent of the internet has no info on Carggite physiology).\u00a0 Brainy points out that Luornu isn\u2019t typical, and Orange ends up explaining that unlike other Carggites, her three selves have always had distinct personalities.\u00a0 These differences drove their father away.\u00a0 When they were discovered to be different, and their school wanted to expel them, their mother agreed, but it was their grandmother who stood up for them.\u00a0 As their mother descended into drink and despair, their grandmother raised them to be distinct, even allowing them to dress individually.\u00a0 On her deathbed, their grandmother revealed that she too had distinct personalities, and that she believed that was normal, but that their society was against it.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to imagine Brainy paying any attention to this talk.\u00a0 The others arrive, and Brainy tells the two conscious Luornus that he thinks they are going to die.\u00a0 He suspects that if they reintegrate everything will be fine, but he doesn\u2019t know.\u00a0 Purple tries it on her own, and that is a bad idea.\u00a0 A little later, Imra sits with the two Luornus, and Purple starts to open up about being in the hospital before.\u00a0 Orange forbids her from continuing (which is interesting, given that she was the one opening up before), but Imra calms her down and encourages her to talk.\u00a0 After their grandmother died, the Luornus were put in a mental institute, where doctors tried to integrate their personalities.\u00a0 They escaped, and hid out at the spaceport.\u00a0 They tried to break into a spaceship, which turned out to be RJ Brande\u2019s.\u00a0 He took them in, and gave them a job in his office.\u00a0 Later, he discovered that they were runaway mental patients, and got angry.\u00a0 At this point, Brande interrupts the story to get the Luornus, leaving Imra suspicious of him.\u00a0 Brainy has figured out that for the Luornus to integrate successfully, they must all be conscious.\u00a0 He is going to wake up Neutral to make this happen.\u00a0 Imra asks Brande about what happened when he learned Luornu\u2019s past, and he explains that he got custody of her; Imra hugs him.\u00a0 Brainy prepares, and when Orange gets cold feet, she and Purple merge (which, we previously were told, didn&#8217;t work).\u00a0 Brainy wakes up Neutral, who starts screaming, and we see them all merge, but don\u2019t really see the result.\u00a0 Brande and Marla sit with Imra, Jenni, and Vi, and Brainy happens to wander past, lost in thought.\u00a0 He tells them that Luornu should be fine.\u00a0 Brande wants to find the people responsible, while Vi looks at us with uncertainty on her face.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-8.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 68 &#8211; The Legionnaires on Tangleweb\u2019s planet (Andromeda, Apparition, Leviathan, Chameleon, and Kinetix) are surrounded by spider aliens.\u00a0 They begin to fight, and Laurel again balks at the idea of touching any of the spiders.\u00a0 Gim yells at her, but when a spider cuts Laurel\u2019s transsuit, she passes out.\u00a0 The rest of the team gets caught pretty quickly.\u00a0 Invisible Kid arrives on his stealthcraft, and finds an old abandoned spacecraft that has been gutted of its tech.\u00a0 He hears a noise and gets scared.\u00a0 Back on Earth, Saturn Girl probes Triad\u2019s mind to try to figure out who it was that attacked her; Imra is angry that they\u2019d been left behind by Cosmic Boy, figuring that Triad wouldn\u2019t have been hurt had she gone on the mission.\u00a0 Laurel recovers from her panic attack and breaks out of the spider web cocoon she finds herself in.\u00a0 She frees the others, but they realize that Cham is missing.\u00a0 Tinya scouts around, and discovers Cham talking to one of the spider aliens.\u00a0 When she swoops in, he tells her to stop.\u00a0 On Durla, some Durlans raise three crystals from a lava pit.\u00a0 It looks like the crystals contain some angry pink energy beings.\u00a0 When one of the crystals hits the side of the pit, it cracks, and pink energy attacks the Durlans.\u00a0 As Lyle explores a cave, he discovers a device that is making the creepy noise he heard.\u00a0 Continuing to explore, he comes across Cosmic Boy, Spark, and a guy from the last vessel that Tangleweb attacked.\u00a0 That guy has a gun, so Lyle grabs it, just as Tangleweb approaches him.\u00a0 Lyle starts to free Rokk and tries to wake him up.\u00a0 The others gather around Cham as he continues to talk to one of the aliens.\u00a0 He still can\u2019t translate what they\u2019re talking about to his friends, but he uses his shapeshifting powers to display the story of how Tangleweb found a crashed alien ship, stole its technology, and used it to try to subjugate the rest of his people.\u00a0 They realize that these aliens are on their side.\u00a0 Gim gets a ring signal, and hears from Rokk.\u00a0 Rokk, Ayla, and Lyle are trying to hold Tangleweb back so they can escape.\u00a0 Rokk surrounds him in metal, slowing him down, while Ayla zaps him.\u00a0 The others join them, and Cham explains to Lyle that Tangleweb is using the stolen RNA he gets from eating alien brains to help create more Tanglewebs, who just happen to show up right then.\u00a0 Laurel freaks out when she gets covered in more webbing, and Gim grabs her, yells at her, and also gives her a pep talk while calling her a coward.\u00a0 She flies off, leaving the rest of the team to fight, but then we learn that she\u2019s really gone to take a different approach to the problem.\u00a0 She lifts the rocks the Tanglewebs are on into space, where the cold will keep them immobile until they can be imprisoned.\u00a0 As the team prepares to leave, Rokk makes it clear to Lyle that he\u2019s not in trouble for disobeying orders, but will be next time.\u00a0 Rokk also talks to Gim about how he helped save the day, and how he\u2019s avenged Kid Quantum.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR #25 &#8211; Saturn Girl is in a strange environment, where she comes across images of her friends and some other people and creatures.\u00a0 She tries to flee, and then finds an image of herself and freaks out.\u00a0 It turns out she\u2019s in Chameleon\u2019s head, which she did in an attempt to teach him Interlac.\u00a0 Invisible Kid translates and explains that Cham keeps templates of forms in his mind so he can shapeshift more quickly.\u00a0 Imra is annoyed that she is expected to help Cham, and storms off, telling him to, basically, go back where he came from.\u00a0 On Durla, a trio of SP officers arrive to deal with a reported massacre.\u00a0 As they start to look around, one finds a dying Durlan, and then is attacked from behind and killed.\u00a0 The Durlan that killed him takes on his form, kills the other two officers, and then enters their ship, asking it (in Interlac) to locate Reep Daggle.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Spark is happy that she\u2019s received a note from a secret admirer, while Apparition complains to XS about the problems with guys.\u00a0 She receives a gift from Ultra Boy &#8211; a cactus &#8211; and gives it to Tenzil to eat.\u00a0 Shrinking Violet surprises Andromeda, who is lifting weights, and asks her about the White Triangle guys from the club night.\u00a0 Vi reveals that she knows the guys weren\u2019t arrested.\u00a0 Laurel gets angry and storms off.\u00a0 Imra watches a rare storm (weather control is off-line, apparently) and thinks about how the team is rudderless, and how her feelings for Cosmic Boy are affecting her.\u00a0 Rokk is talking to Leviathan over viewscreen.\u00a0 Gim has finished booking Tangleweb, but is still at the SP station filling out reports.\u00a0 Shvaughn Erin is not happy that Gim is using her computer, and they argue.\u00a0 Imra interrupts Rokk in an awkward scene, and then Rokk notices something strange about one of the SPs on the screen.\u00a0 He calls Gim and Shvaughn\u2019s attention to him, just as he attacks, hitting Shvaughn with a fleshy orange protuberance.\u00a0 Gim gets big and realizes the guy is a Durlan.\u00a0 Rokk calls on the team, while the Durlan turns into an insect and bites Gim, knocking him out.\u00a0 The SP search for the Durlan, but when one opens fire, he only hits a mouse.\u00a0 Gim recovers just as the Legion arrives.\u00a0 Cham recognizes the SP with the mouse as a Durlan, and the Durlan attacks him.\u00a0 When Cham turns into a lightning beast, he does the same.\u00a0 When Spark fires at him, the Durlan turns into her, and uses her powers, which is something Durlans can\u2019t do.\u00a0 The Durlan talks about how he was genetically bred for war, and then makes reference to Cham\u2019s religion making him into a living sin.\u00a0 Rokk sends Laurel away so the Durlan can\u2019t copy her powers, and then moves some vehicles to block the SP from coming out into the rain to assist the Legion.\u00a0 The Durlan copies Rokk\u2019s powers, and then Tinya\u2019s.\u00a0 Kinetix tries to trap him in moving concrete, but he shrinks, and then turns into Brainiac 5 for some reason.\u00a0 Using Brainy\u2019s copied intellect, he lands on the idea of turning into a composite of all of the Legion, and the next issue box calls him The Composite Man.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-8.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 69 &#8211; The team retreats from the Composite Man, and Invisible Kid figures out that the villain absorbed Brainiac 5\u2019s genius, giving him a lot more strategy to use against them.\u00a0 Andromeda remains far above the battle, afraid to get involved so that Composite Man can\u2019t duplicate her powers as well.\u00a0 She tosses an SP cruiser out of the area to protect them.\u00a0 C-Man fights Chameleon, and tells him that he killed his father.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy and Kinetix combine their powers to force C-Man deep underground.\u00a0 Rokk wants Saturn Girl to monitor their foe telepathically, but Imra doesn\u2019t want to, and Rokk is rude to her about it.\u00a0 Imra tells Laurel to stay away.\u00a0 Lyle catches everyone up on what Cham tells him, including the fact that Cham\u2019s father is dead (this is a major break from previous Legion continuity, where Cham\u2019s father was RJ Brande).\u00a0 Lyle and Brainy want to recreate the chemicals that block C-Man\u2019s powers, and Rokk wants XS to lure C-Man away from them.\u00a0 Cham finishes telling Lyle and Brainy what to make just as Composite Man digs out from under the ground and comes at Cham again.\u00a0 He jumps on to Jenni\u2019s back, and she runs off, with C-Man following.\u00a0 Brainy gets some dismissive SPs to take him to their science lab.\u00a0 Rokk asks Imra to monitor Jenni and Cham, and is rude to her again.\u00a0 Jenni does her best to keep ahead of C-Man, resorting to using her flight ring to stay out of his way.\u00a0 Lyle and Brainy work to complete the formula they need, despite some SP push back.\u00a0 Jenni is about to sacrifice herself to save Cham when Imra calls them back to the SP complex.\u00a0 As Jenni leads him in, Rokk coves him with the formula, which causes him pain and to lose coherence.\u00a0 Their respite doesn\u2019t last for long, as Composite Man springs back (Lyle forgot that Durlans use base nine math), and Imra realizes that she is the only one who can stop the Composite Man.\u00a0 She enters his mind, despite her fear and misgivings, and starts mentally blasting away at the templates of various shapes he stores there.\u00a0 By the time she shuts him down, she is practically catatonic.\u00a0 Later, Rokk confirms that the Composite Man is being sent back to Durla.\u00a0 Lyle and Cham come to tell him that they are going to Durla too to bury Cham\u2019s father.\u00a0 Rokk feels bad that he was so rude to Imra, and we see that she is being transferred to a psychiatric hospital.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH Annual 6 &#8211; In 1995, DC had all their Annuals share the \u201cYear One\u201d theme, which works for this book, as this is still year one for the Legion.\u00a0 Shvaughn Erin of the Science Police is not happy to learn that she has been given a desk job, and is now the SP\u2019s liaison to the Legion of Super-Heroes.\u00a0 She\u2019s not really a fan of the team, and especially of Leviathan, but decides to start going through her Omnicom\u2019s files on the team.\u00a0 This becomes an excuse to see some pinups of team members with minimal biographical data, until she opens the file on XS\u2019s origin (by McCraw and Immonen).\u00a0 Young Jenni Ognats was a prisoner in a Dominion lab.\u00a0 We learn that she was the granddaughter of Barry Allen, and the daughter of Dawn Allen, of the Tornado Twins.\u00a0 Unlike her cousin Bart, she never gained any speed powers.\u00a0 Her mother and uncle were killed fighting the Dominators, so Jenni\u2019s father took her to his planet, Aarok.\u00a0 They were captured by Dominators, and when Jenni saw that her father was going to be tortured, her powers kicked in and she freed him.\u00a0 Shvaughn skips over Leviathan\u2019s origin, and instead looks at pinups of a few more Legionnaires, before opening Kinetix\u2019s file (by Peyer and Alan Davis).\u00a0 Zoe dreamed of solving planets\u2019 problems while on an archeology trip with Shrinking Violet.\u00a0 She told Vi how she and her brother used to follow their mother around on her archeological digs.\u00a0 On one dig, her mother exposed herself to a gas that looked to kill her, until Zoe researched an artifact that her mom had found, the Moon of Koll, and used it to save her mom.\u00a0 Later, on a dig on Titan, Zoe was exposed to a pool of energy that gave her her powers, which she learned to use to help with more archeology.\u00a0 Zoe and Vi discovered an artifact called the Star of Akkos, but it somehow negated her powers as the ancient temple they were in started to crumble.\u00a0 They narrowly escaped, and Zoe later explained to Vi how she\u2019s not greedy, but wanted to find more ways to help people.\u00a0 After a couple more pin-ups, and looking at files on Brande, Marla, Tenzil, and the Athramites, as well as a map of Legion HQ and the tools the team has, Shvaughn finally opens Leviathan\u2019s file (by Waid and Collins).\u00a0 We see that Gim was not happy at first to be drafted to the Legion, and that he and his abilities were being used for attention and acclaim by his commander, Chief Wilson.\u00a0 We get a recap of Gim\u2019s origin, when he got his powers from some meteoroid.\u00a0 Some terrorists took over a colonization office, and Wilson mismanaged the SP\u2019s response, refusing to let Gim use his powers to solve the problem.\u00a0 After some SPs got shot, Gim took action anyway, and saved the day.\u00a0 Later, he told Wilson that he quit, choosing to join the Legion.\u00a0 He and Gigi Cusimano talked about his choices.\u00a0 Shvaughn continues to read about the Legion\u2019s few exploits to date, and changes her mind about the team.\u00a0 When another officer calls her Liaison Lass (which doesn\u2019t work as a joke with the new Legion, really), she leans into it and says she\u2019d be proud to be part of the Legion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-10.37.35-PM.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LNR 26 &#8211; A red-robed figure arrives in the Metropolis Spaceport and Jedi mind tricks his way through customs.\u00a0 Spark is on monitor duty, which helps us to understand that Andromeda has gone missing.\u00a0 XS brings her another gift from her secret admirer, a silver lightning bolt.\u00a0 Ambassador Wazzo storms in, looking for Apparition, and Ayla tells her off.\u00a0 Tinya, it turns out, is in Washington waiting for Ultra Boy, who is very late.\u00a0 He apologizes, and is in the midst of explaining that there\u2019s nothing between him and Spider-Girl when Leland McCauley calls and orders Jo to join the Workforce for a mission.\u00a0 He invites Tinya to come, and she accepts.\u00a0 At the Earthgov Medicenter, we see that Triad and Saturn Girl are sharing a room.\u00a0 Luornu tries to talk to Imra who is catatonic.\u00a0 The red-robed guy comes in and dismisses Luornu, putting his hand on Imra\u2019s head.\u00a0 Luornu turns her signal ring and then tries to stop the guy, who touches her head and puts her in a trance before returning to Imra.\u00a0 On Durla, Chameleon and Invisible Kid watch as Reep\u2019s father\u2019s body is lowered into lava.\u00a0 Reep tells Lyle something, which Lyle suggests he keep to himself back on Earth.\u00a0 Jo and Tinya meet up with the rest of the Workforce outside a warehouse.\u00a0 Spider-Girl is not happy to see Tinya, although Live Wire is.\u00a0 McCauley explains that thieves are stealing things from him, and the team goes in.\u00a0 The thieves look a lot like Booster Gold in his awful 90s armor, and Inferno quickly sets fire to some bins of toxic materials.\u00a0 The lead thief grabs a ball of green toxic waste, and says that he\u2019ll use the material to kill everyone unless they let them do their thing.\u00a0 It turns out McCauley and these guys were business partners.\u00a0 As the red-robe guy keeps holding Imra, and trying to take control of her mind, Cosmic Boy shows up and hits him with a metal egg off his suit.\u00a0 The guy is annoyed, as he was doing critical work, and claims that he\u2019s fixed Imra\u2019s catatonia; she says hello to Cosmic Boy.\u00a0 The guy identifies himself as Aven, Imra\u2019s instructor from Titan, and he claims to have fixed her, although he doesn\u2019t explain why he had to be so mysterious and confrontational.\u00a0 Imra doesn\u2019t seem better &#8211; she just keeps saying hi to Rokk.\u00a0 The thieves, who it turns out are part of the White Triangle, explain that they were buying weapons from McCauley, but were angry that he also sold them to other races.\u00a0 They all start fighting again, and passing the ball of toxic stuff around like a football.\u00a0 The waste almost hits the floor, but Jo manages to catch it, burning his hands briefly in the process.\u00a0 The thieves surrender when Inferno starts to burn one of them, and Tinya is not happy about this whole situation.\u00a0 Garth agrees and starts to yell at McCauley, claiming that all they do is protect him.\u00a0 Garth mentions that he only joined the team for help in finding his brother, and he quits.\u00a0 Tinya asks the others if they also want to quit the Workforce, but no one takes her up on it. She flies away, and Jo watches her leave.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Rokk and Kinetix are talking to President Chu (this is the first that she\u2019s actually named).\u00a0 Since Zoe lost her powers, Rokk thinks she should leave the team, but the President refuses, for political reasons.\u00a0 She tells Rokk to keep Zoe safe, but to keep her on the team.\u00a0 There is a large crash, and Rokk protects Zoe magnetically as debris falls around them.\u00a0 They see that Andromeda, who appears unconscious, is the one that wrecked the place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 70 &#8211; Andromeda is in Brainiac 5\u2019s lab, writhing in pain.\u00a0 Brainy is hoping to figure out how to save her from the lead poisoning that is killing her.\u00a0 He employs a red light lamp to neutralize her abilities so he can get a blood sample, but she realizes that her transuit is off, and kicks him away from her.\u00a0 Brainy is mocking in his tone as he points out that she has to get over her xenophobia if she wants to live.\u00a0 Triad is being released from the hospital, and comes across Saturn Girl, who has mentally regressed to the level of a small child, and is upset that she is leaving.\u00a0 Zoe, who has lost her powers, is leaving the team to go on an archeological dig.\u00a0 Some of the kids say goodbye to her, but mostly Spark and XS show off Ayla\u2019s latest gift.\u00a0 Shrinking Violet confides in Zoe that she is worried about Andromeda.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy, Apparition, and Leviathan are at a meeting with their new UP supervisor, Ambassador Wazzo, who basically hates them.\u00a0 When Rokk suggests that her issues with her daughter shouldn\u2019t interfere with the team, she loses it and ends the meeting.\u00a0 As Brainy works to save Laurel, he talks about all the ways that Coluans are superior.\u00a0 Laurel explains how she let the White Triangle guys go on their club night, because they promised not to hurt anyone, but then they beat up Triad.\u00a0 Laurel was more upset that they defied her than that they hurt Luornu, so she went looking for them.\u00a0 She explains that on Daxam, the White Triangle is all about purity.\u00a0 When she found the thugs, one of them used a weapon to wreck her transuit (before there were two s\u2019s in its spelling), and she immediately got sick.\u00a0 She tells Brainy that one of them called her a traitor to her race; he asks if she believes that.\u00a0 Her argument is not that she hates other races so much as she loves her own; she gets angry when Brainy calls that typical Daxamite thinking.\u00a0 Violet goes into Laurel\u2019s quarters, thinking of leaving her a gift, and then decides to clean it up a bit.\u00a0 She finds something disturbing on a shelf.\u00a0 Brainy discovers that his ancestor, Vril Dox, developed an anti-lead serum for Valor a thousand years before.\u00a0 Laurel claims Valor as her ancestor, but even still, that is not enough for the serum to work on her, as it has to be keyed to her unique genetic makeup.\u00a0 She explains that she\u2019s taught that all Daxamites are genetically similar.\u00a0 She grew up in a remote White Triangle village where she was taught the \u201ctruth\u201d about other races.\u00a0 She was surprised to be picked to join the Legion.\u00a0 Brainy continues to mock her beliefs, while also finding the cure.\u00a0 He wants her to say that he\u2019s superior before he gives it to her.\u00a0 She refuses, so next he wants her to look him in the eye and declare him inferior.\u00a0 She can\u2019t do this, so he hands her the serum and walks out.\u00a0 She apologizes, but he\u2019s already gone.\u00a0 Invisible Kid, Chameleon, and Triad return and everyone chats for a bit.\u00a0 Lyle gives everyone an update from Brainy that Laurel is fine.\u00a0 Violet shows up shows everyone that Laurel has a White Triangle necklace.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-9.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LNR #27 &#8211; A freighter approaches a stargate, but as they enter it, the four Daxamite White Triangle guys (Suggin and Arn are the only ones with names yet) destroy it, ripping their ship in half.\u00a0 They decide to go after another stargate.\u00a0 On Earth, Brande learns of the stargate problem, but not the cause, and decides to shut down the whole network.\u00a0 He wants a cruiser to go check things out on his own.\u00a0 On his way out, he almost misses that Garth, who has quit the Workforce, is waiting for him, wanting a ship so he can look for his brother.\u00a0 Brande refuses, and tells him he should go check on Imra in the hospital.\u00a0 The White Triangle folk on Earth pilot a drone around Metropolis, and when they see a mixed-species couple making out, they kill them with it.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Cosmic Boy confronts Andromeda with his discovery that she\u2019s White Triangle.\u00a0 She looks conflicted, but refuses Cos\u2019s help.\u00a0 She loses her temper when he confines her to her quarters, and then calls her mentor, Obin Der.\u00a0 She says she\u2019s worried she\u2019s going to be kicked out of the Legion.\u00a0 He says he wishes he\u2019d known of her Triangle allegiance (I thought she came from a village of them).\u00a0 Roxxas is there, but in this reboot, he\u2019s apparently a Daxamite, and one of great political influence.\u00a0 He wants Laurel to return, and is angry with her for being a failure.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t want to go back, so she offers up the lead poisoning serum that Brainiac 5 developed.\u00a0 Apparition, Spark, and XS are visiting Imra in the hospital, but Imra ignores them to play a video game.\u00a0 When the girls leave, Garth enters her room, but doesn\u2019t reveal himself when he watches her throw a temper tantrum when she loses her game.\u00a0 The three girls window shop, and are joined by Ultra Boy.\u00a0 Tinya ignores him, and flies away, angered by how casually Jo is treating her.\u00a0 He follows, and makes a comment about how she\u2019s letting her mother pick her boyfriends for her.\u00a0 This drives Tinya into his arms, just as the White Triangle drone approaches.\u00a0 It fires on them, and Jo blasts it.\u00a0 The White Triangle are angry about this, so they suit up.\u00a0 Jo, Tinya, Ayla, and Jenni talk with an SP in the sky, when the White Triangles show up in their Booster Gold-ish suits.\u00a0 They start fighting, and when one almost gets the drop on Ayla, Garth joins in from down below.\u00a0 Rokk and Marla approach the UP complex, talking about getting rid of Laurel.\u00a0 Marla tries to calm Rokk down, but instead Rokk bursts into the President\u2019s office, where Chu, standing with Ambassador Roxxas, makes it clear that Laurel is staying on the team.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 71 &#8211; A large number of Daxamite members of the White Triangle have gathered on Nullport, a satellite that they\u2019ve taken over, having killed everyone on it.\u00a0 The four Daxamites that we\u2019ve seen before (Suggin, Arns, Jorn, and unnamed) are told that merely destroying stargates is not enough for the cause, and that a planet is looking to join the UP which has inhabitants more powerful than the Daxamites.\u00a0 They all depart.\u00a0 Zoe is flying through space, between stargates, on the quest for magical objects that might restore her missing powers.\u00a0 Her ship\u2019s computer informs her that the next stargate in her trip has been destroyed.\u00a0 With no options, she decides to gradually slow her vessel, in the hopes that it will return her to regular space safely; the computer does not agree with that assessment.\u00a0 RJ Brande is on the planet Trom, meeting with his friend Tarn Arrah.\u00a0 He wants his help in rebuilding the destroyed stargates, as Tarn, like all Trommites, can transmute matter into other elements.\u00a0 Tarn explains that he needs to represent his people in their negotiation with the United Planets.\u00a0 They visit a worship house, where Tarn joins his wife Garra and son Jan.\u00a0 Jan tells Brande that he can make Tarnium, the element needed for the stargates, and his father is not happy about that.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Invisible Kid is meeting with Apparition, Shrinking Violet, Chameleon, and Triad to discuss the White Triangle.\u00a0 Cham tells them that someone is coming, and everyone hides so that when Cosmic Boy enters the room, it looks like Triad is just talking with herselves.\u00a0 After Rokk leaves, Lyle explains that this group of \u201cweaker\u201d Legionnaires he\u2019s assembled should investigate the White Triangle on their own.\u00a0 Zoe drops back into regular space, and learns that her ship is fine, except that its life support is not working.\u00a0 She scans for a place to land.\u00a0 As Brande leaves Trom, his ship is buzzed by the Daxamites flying towards it.\u00a0 On Trom, Tarn is talking to President Chu and other UP representatives on a conference call (30th century Zoom, basically) when he and his wife are instantly incinerated.\u00a0 The Daxamites are in orbit, using their laser vision to burn the entire planet.\u00a0 None of the Trommites appear able to protect themselves, and the whole planet is wrecked.\u00a0 The Daxamites fly off.\u00a0 Brande returns in his ship, and is devastated to see what became of the beautiful and peaceful planet he just visited.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-9.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LNR 28 &#8211; This issue features very 90s art by Joyce Chin, who appears to be a big fan of Jim Lee via Travis Charest.\u00a0 Some aliens are touring around the Alamo in Texas, and the inclusion of a number of Durlans in the crowd draws out the Earth chapter of the White Triangle, who attack.\u00a0 The Durlans begin to fight back, confusing the WT goons with their apparent powers, which appear to include intangibility, and the ability to shrink and to triplicate.\u00a0 A Science Ranger named Buck Bond shows up and chases some of the White Triangle goons, but they get away from him.\u00a0 He circles back to check on the Durlans, and they are gone too.\u00a0 Really, they are the Legion\u2019s new Espionage Squad (Invisible Kid, Apparition, Chameleon, Shrinking Violet, and Triad), who have captured four White Triangle guys.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy is talking to RJ Brande over video about the genocide on Trom.\u00a0 Brande tells Rokk that he is grounding all space flights, and wants the Legion to prepare for whatever is going on.\u00a0 Spark finds Live Wire in the Legion HQ.\u00a0 He\u2019s trying to book a flight to go search for their brother Mekt, and Ayla calls him out on the fact that he only ever talks about searching for him, but never actually does it.\u00a0 Lyle and the others arrive with their prisoners, which makes both Rokk and Leviathan angry, since the Legion is not authorized to keep prisoners.\u00a0 They tell Lyle to hand them over to the SP, and it\u2019s clear that there is more tension growing between Rokk and Lyle.\u00a0 As everyone leaves, Tinya gets a call from her mother which quickly turns into an argument.\u00a0 After Tinya ends the call, Ambassador Wazzo feels slighted.\u00a0 She is joined by Murl, her ex-husband, and gives him money to pay off his gambling debts.\u00a0 The four White Triangle prisoners find themselves surrounded by aliens; instead, Lyle has them in the VR room.\u00a0 The Triads argue whether or not this is moral, while Lyle pushes for information.\u00a0 It seems that these guys don\u2019t even know who is in charge of their group.\u00a0 Later, the \u201cEspionage Squad\u201d discusses what they\u2019ve learned, and Vi\u2019s assertion that there is a Daxamite connection goes ignored.\u00a0 Brainiac 5 goes to see Andromeda, and she throws something at him to get him to leave.\u00a0 Laurel feels guilty about what she\u2019s done.\u00a0 Roxxas is at the UP complex, and is talking to the four-Daxamite cadre we\u2019ve been seeing for ages.\u00a0 Roxxas brags about how he\u2019s manipulated \u201chalf-breeds\u201d and other aliens into doing his bidding.\u00a0 He\u2019s confronted by Flint, who I guess was one of the guys working with Doyle when the relaunch started.\u00a0 This scene is here mostly to make it clear that Roxxas has been pulling the strings all along, and then Roxxas kills him.\u00a0 The four Daxamites, who are back on Nullport.\u00a0 They have the serum that Andromeda gave them the formula for.\u00a0 They drink it, and Roxxas gives credit to \u201cthat little fool Andromeda.\u201d\u00a0 Laurel is using her super-hearing to listen in on this conversation, and she busts through the wall of the Legion HQ to go deal with it, seen only by Vi.\u00a0 Rokk and Gim are at an Earthgov post in Antarctica, trying to figure out what\u2019s going on with the stargates when they learn that their weather-control array is falling apart.\u00a0 Rokk has Gim call in the rest of the Legion, and send word to Workforce, as the four Daxamites attack the post they\u2019re in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR Annual 2 &#8211; The Legionnaires Annual technically meets the Year One criteria, as in wrapping up the White Triangle storyline, it also wraps up the Legion\u2019s first year.\u00a0 We see that one of the Daxamites has given Evolvo and Spider-Girl a good meeting.\u00a0 He goes to meet the rest of his cadre, as they admire their work in wrecking bits of the Earth, before getting back to it.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy visits Saturn Girl, but she only wants to see Live Wire.\u00a0 One of the Daxamites attacks the hospital, and Rokk works to save lives.\u00a0 Another Daxamite keeps working on dismantling the weather control infrastructure.\u00a0 Ultra Boy and Apparition confront him, and they start to fight.\u00a0 The Daxamite sends Jo falling towards the Earth.\u00a0 Leviathan and Inferno fight another Daxamite in a volcano.\u00a0 Gim is burned, and the Daxamite gets away while Inferno tries to help him.\u00a0 She calls on Triad and Spark, and arranges a plan, but since he has superhearing, the Daxamite doesn\u2019t fall for it, and instead makes the volcano erupt.\u00a0 RJ Brande calls in to Brainiac 5, telling him what happened on Trom, while Brainy works to prepare something.\u00a0 Rokk comes in and hangs up on Brande, concerned that the Daxamites can hear their conversation.\u00a0 Live Wire busts into Brainy\u2019s lab, and we see that there\u2019s a riot happening outside the headquarters.\u00a0 Rokk gives Garth a Legion ring and tells him he has a job for him.\u00a0 Roxxas speaks to the United Planets, playing the role of injured party, when Andromeda bursts into his office.\u00a0 Roxxas destroys the monitors so their conversation is private, and we learn that Laurel did give Roxxas the anti-lead serum, which Roxxas himself has taken.\u00a0 Invisible Kid and Chameleon try to stop one of the Daxamites, who is wrecking a church, by scaring him with a mythical creature, but it doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Lyle relays to Rokk that the Daxamites aren\u2019t wearing their transuits.\u00a0 Rokk calls Brainy to ask how Laurel\u2019s serum would affect the Daxamites; Brainy claims that it will drive them insane.\u00a0 Garth gets to Imra, and she agrees to help.\u00a0 Karate Kid is standing guard at a spaceport when one of the Daxamites arrives.\u00a0 They fight, and Val gets some shrapnel in his leg, but manages to drive the Daxamite off.\u00a0 As Garth and Imra approach Legion HQ, they save an Athramite from the riot.\u00a0 Imra agrees to help Rokk.\u00a0 Laurel\u2019s fight with Roxxas moves into the UP chambers, where we learn that the whole thing is built over a fission array for some reason.\u00a0 The fight ends up going underground, where Roxxas appears to lose control over his body.\u00a0 XS rushes to save people from a tidal wave one of the Daxamites has created, but he distracts her and many drown.\u00a0 Brande\u2019s ship approaches Earth, and is almost hit by the Eiffel Tower, which has been thrown at it.\u00a0 Brande\u2019s unidentified passenger makes the Tower disappear, and the Daxamite runs.\u00a0 Jo and Tinya keep fighting, and Jo manages to knock the Daxamite out.\u00a0 Jo declares his love for Tinya, and just as she begins to confirm that she feels the same, the Daxamite blasts them both with his laser vision, frying Tinya to a crisp in Jo\u2019s arms.\u00a0 Garth and Rokk try to keep the rioters away from their headquarters, and Rokk asks Imra to have the Legionnaires draw the Daxamites there.\u00a0 She can\u2019t reach anyone, so instead, he wants her to call out to the Daxamites themselves.\u00a0 We see that Vi was in Roxxas\u2019s head (literally), which is what caused him to be so erratic.\u00a0 This gives Laurel the chance to attack again, but their fight causes the fission array to rupture, and Vi just barely escapes the green flame.\u00a0 The three founding Legionnaires stand together, preparing for the Daxamites to come.\u00a0 Brainy brings some equipment into the plaza, and just as the Daxamites arrive, so does Brande.\u00a0 Jan Arrah is with him, and he turns some of Brainy\u2019s device into tarnium, creating a stargate that the Daxamites fly into.\u00a0 Imra looks inside the stargate, against Rokk\u2019s orders, and when Brainy turns it off, the Daxamites are gone (although, really, there were like a dozen more in the attack on Trom).\u00a0 Later, everyone is gathered together, getting their wounds treated and checking in on one another.\u00a0 We see that Imra is back to herself, although she saw something inside the stargate.\u00a0 Brande introduces Jan to Rokk, and Brainy explains that he sent the Daxamites to an uninhabited red sun planet.\u00a0 Jo arrives with Tinya\u2019s body, and when Gim asks if that\u2019s all they lost, Vi starts to cry.\u00a0 We see a splash page showing three statues in the memorial hall &#8211; Kid Quantum\u2019s statue has been joined by ones depicting Laurel and Tinya.\u00a0 Later, President Chu tells Rokk that Laurel is incarcerated on the prison planet from before; she\u2019s the only prisoner there, and her continued existence has to remain a secret, since she betrayed the Legion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-10.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 72 &#8211; Three SPs, including Gigi Cusimano, capture one of the remaining White Triangle operatives on Earth; we learn from this that the organization has been taken down across the galaxy.\u00a0 The Legion, Workforce, and various UP and SP dignitaries have gathered at Legion HQ for a memorial to Apparition and Andromeda.\u00a0 After Brande gives a speech, Cosmic Boy tells the team to stick around, as many of their guests want to offer their condolences.\u00a0 Rokk blows off a reporter asking stupid questions to make his way across the room to Ultra Boy, who is grieving openly.\u00a0 Rokk blows off Shvaughn Erin to speak with Jo, who tells him that he\u2019s going to quit the Workforce.\u00a0 This angers his boss, Leland McCauley, who brings up his contract, but Rokk offers Jo a place in the Legion.\u00a0 The ambassador from Aleph demands to know where Kinetix is, and informs Rokk that she never arrived at her destination.\u00a0 Ambassador Wazzo wants this, and the rest of the Legion investigated, and ends up yelling at Rokk, blaming him for Tinya getting killed.\u00a0 As Wazzo is led away, Brande and Jan Arrah talk about loss, and Jan explains that his people don\u2019t see death the same way; he says he wants to return to Trom.\u00a0 Shrinking Violet shares with Triad that she doesn\u2019t think anyone is going to miss Andromeda.\u00a0 Brainiac 5 was not at the memorial, but is instead smashing screens in his lab.\u00a0 A Durlan approaches Chameleon and starts bowing to him.\u00a0 Brande interrupts, and introduces himself to Reep, giving him sympathy for the recent loss of his father.\u00a0 Rokk and Saturn Girl talk for a bit, and we learn that her illness has improved her tolerance to picking up the thoughts of others.\u00a0 The President wants Rokk and Imra to meet representatives from their worlds, and the fact that they are all talking together is a big deal, as Braal and Titan were at war not that long ago.\u00a0 They pose for pictures, and think that Rokk and Imra are together.\u00a0 The two friends speak telepathically, and Imra shares that she\u2019s worried that some of the Legionnaires are depressed, and are questioning the point of their team.\u00a0 This angers Rokk, who calls for an immediate team meeting, angering the President.\u00a0 Rokk begins by making sure that the team knows what a good job they\u2019ve done, and sharing that he\u2019s invited Jo and Jan to join them.\u00a0 The President interrupts the meeting, angry that Rokk made her look bad by leaving.\u00a0 She tells them that she\u2019s putting the team on a tight leash, and insists that Live Wire leave again.\u00a0 Rokk doesn\u2019t stand up for Garth, which shocks everyone.\u00a0 At Morgna Industries, on the west coast, two scientists discover Dr. Regulus, who was recently fired, gathering equipment from a lab.\u00a0 He gets angry that the scientists try to stop him, and putting on a gauntlet, kills them both.\u00a0 Rokk is in his office, having just sent Invisible Kid away, when Brainy calls him, asking for time off.\u00a0 Rokk feels guilty, knowing that Brainy is mourning for Laurel, but he knows that he can\u2019t tell him she\u2019s still alive; instead, he denies his request.\u00a0 Imra and Garth come to talk to him, and Rokk loses his temper when he thinks that Imra has tried to read his mind.\u00a0 He pushes her away magnetically, and then Garth loses his temper and fires his lightning at the ceiling.\u00a0 Rokk fights back, and as some of the other Legionnaires gather in the doorway, Garth storms off, and Rokk yells at all of them, pushing them away.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 29 &#8211; The Science Police have responded to the emergency at Morgna Industries, and Derek Morgna, the owner of the company, figures out that it\u2019s Doctor Regulus who has attacked his company.\u00a0 A group of SPs enter the facility, not knowing that Regulus is watching them on a monitor.\u00a0 While he rants to himself about his reputation, he opens the lab door and blasts them with his armor.\u00a0 He then calls the officer in charge and lets him know that he has Morgna\u2019s son, Dirk, as a hostage.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Cosmic Boy enters the lounge where Triad is hanging out with Ultra Boy.\u00a0 He tells him he can\u2019t be there, as he\u2019s not a Legionnaire, and reminds Triad that rules are rules.\u00a0 Rokk takes a call from the President, who wants him to send the Legion to Morgna Industries.\u00a0 Spark is with Garth, who is finally leaving to look for their brother Mekt.\u00a0 He wants Ayla to come with him, but she gets called to go to Morgna Industries.\u00a0 Rokk goes looking for Brainiac 5, breaking down the door to the Time Lab, but he\u2019s not there.\u00a0 After Rokk storms out, Brainy appears, with a stein of beer in his hand.\u00a0 On Trom, Jan Arrah begins the task of turning the still-smoldering corpses of his people into crystal markers.\u00a0 As he walks away, it appears he is not alone.\u00a0 Regulus rants at Dirk, and injects him with radioactive gold in the forehead.\u00a0 We learn that Regulus blames Dirk for distracting him during an experiment, which led to the explosion that cost Regulus his job.\u00a0 As Regulus rants some more, Leviathan punches his giant fist into the room.\u00a0 Regulus burns his hand, and then Spark, XS, and Saturn Girl enter.\u00a0 Imra takes charge of the situation, communicating her plan telepathically.\u00a0 As everyone gets ready, they learn that Dirk is there (I don\u2019t know why no one would have told them that), and change the plans to try to save him.\u00a0 They cover Regulus in frozen liquid nitrogen, and then run a current into him, which breaks his armor.\u00a0 He blasts a coolant conduit, so it will hit Dirk, and keep the Legionnaires from reaching him.\u00a0 There is an explosion, and in it, Imra thinks she sees Valor, as Jenni drags her away.\u00a0 Imra tries to reach Dirk as his father arrives.\u00a0 They all assume Dirk must be dead.\u00a0 A bright light and a voice come from the room, but so does Regulus, whose armor has melted all over him.\u00a0 A figure mostly made of light comes up behind Regulus and blinds him.\u00a0 We learn that Dirk is now a figure made of flame, shining with great brilliance, as he freaks out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-10.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 73 &#8211; Garth is on the planet Bisbe, where he\u2019s had his last credits stolen from him, but is no closer to finding his brother Mekt.\u00a0 He ends up in a bit of a bar fight, and zaps a big guy who is about to shoot him.\u00a0 The other people in the bar mistake him for \u201cthat maniac with the lightning\u201d and take off, just as the police (this planet is in the UP, so they aren\u2019t SPs) show up and arrest him, identifying him as Mekt Ranzz.\u00a0 As they book him, they show him proof of Mekt\u2019s crimes, including photos of a dead family, and mock the Lightning Lord name that Mekt has taken for himself.\u00a0 As he\u2019s put in his cell, one of the cops appears suspicious.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl talk about the fact that Dirk Morgna\u2019s powers are still out of control.\u00a0 Rokk wants to ask Triad why she, Chameleon, and Invisible Kid didn\u2019t respond when called on the Morgna mission; her explanation is interrupted by a power outage, caused by Brainiac 5.\u00a0 It\u2019s followed by a power surge, during which Valor appears again, and it looks like he\u2019s asking for help.\u00a0 They decide to go looking for Brainy to see if they can get him to figure out what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 The cop approaches Garth in his cell, making it clear that he knows he isn\u2019t Mekt.\u00a0 He promises to help him, but then Mekt shows up, killing the cop and taking Garth with him in his flying vessel.\u00a0 They are pursued, but Mekt kills those cops too, and when Garth protests, he blasts him.\u00a0 Shvaughn Erin calls Spark to tell her that Garth was arrested and is wanted.\u00a0 Ayla runs off, and blows off Rokk when he calls to her (which Imra blames him for).\u00a0 Garth wakes up in Mekt\u2019s ship.\u00a0 He has snacks that we see he stole from a vessel now floating in space surrounded by dead bodies.\u00a0 Mekt seems nuts, and is annoyed when Garth tries to talk reason into him.\u00a0 They land on Korbal, the planet where they gained their powers.\u00a0 Mekt starts shooting at the lightning beasts, claiming he wants to be the only person with lightning powers.\u00a0 Garth worries that more power will make Mekt crazier, and learns that Mekt intends to kill him and Ayla.\u00a0 Just then, the Science Police arrive in multiple cruisers, and tell Garth that he is under arrest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 30 &#8211; As the Science Police approach them, Lightning Lord starts shooting at the lightning beasts so their energy will release in the direction of the cruisers, which causes them to pull back.\u00a0 Garth tries again to get through to his brother.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy, Triad, and Saturn Girl enter Brainiac 5\u2019s lab, and Rokk gets angry when he won\u2019t help them.\u00a0 They need a power surge to try to see Valor again, so Rokk smashes a green generator thing, and Valor appears again.\u00a0 Brainy feeds more power into this, so that Valor is able to talk to them, to Luornu\u2019s utter joy.\u00a0 He explains that Superboy put him into a stasis zone in the 20th century to keep him from dying from lead poisoning.\u00a0 Rokk tells him that Brainy cured lead poisoning (which is interesting, because that is based on the fact that Vril Dox cured Valor in the 20th century, but I don\u2019t now what the status of that Valor is now).\u00a0 Brainy explains that they don\u2019t know how to extract Valor, just as they lose power and Valor disappears.\u00a0 Garth tries to reach Mekt, and Mekt explains how difficult it was to be a single birth on Winath, where everyone has a twin.\u00a0 He makes it clear that he likes being unique, which is why he still intends to kill all the lightning beasts, and then kill Garth and Ayla.\u00a0 Garth starts to fight back, and they are both surprised when Ayla turns up and joins the fight.\u00a0 Mekt makes fun of Garth\u2019s notion that the lightning is making him angry.\u00a0 The twins fire their lightning at him at the same time, and he fires a burst at Garth so extreme that he blows the boy\u2019s arm right off.\u00a0 With Garth in shock, Ayla swoops in and gets Mekt\u2019s gun, threatening to shoot him.\u00a0 She goes to her twin, and when Mekt is about to blast her, she shoots him in the leg.\u00a0 Ayla goes to Garth, and sees that his wound cauterized itself.\u00a0 She comforts him, and explains that the lightning hasn\u2019t corrupted anyone, that Mekt was always sociopathic.\u00a0 Mekt tries to attack again, and this time, Garth and Ayla join hands, combining their lightning, and using it to knock him out (to the extent that his hair turns white).\u00a0 A little later, the SPs take Mekt into custody, and give Garth medical attention.\u00a0 The twins are both happy that they are getting along better than they ever have before.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Brainiac 5 explains to the others, who have been joined by Chameleon, XS, and Leviathan, that he can\u2019t find any way to open the stasis zone.\u00a0 Instead, he recommends going back to the 20th century on his new time platform, to ask Superboy himself.\u00a0 The team is excited to go, but Rokk tells Gim he has to stay behind to keep an eye on things.\u00a0 As they climb on the platform, they all disappear, and we see the falling through the timestream (notably, the platform has not gone with them).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between LNR 30 and LSH 74, the Legion showed up in Superboy #20 for the first part of the Future Tense storyline.\u00a0 Somewhere along the time journey, XS went missing, but Brainiac 5 figured that she was fine so no one worried.\u00a0 When they contacted Superboy (remember, this is the annoying 90s referencing bad haircut Lennon glasses leather coat Superboy) of course they fought, then worked things out.\u00a0 They figured out a way to communicate with him both telepathically and with telepathic earplugs (none of which, I guess, work for Chameleon, who still struggles to speak Interlac).\u00a0 Saturn Girl was able to pull the schematics for the portal device that sent Valor into stasis from Superboy\u2019s mind, but since Brainy couldn\u2019t get much done with the equipment of the 1990s, he brought the team back to the future, with Superboy with them, without warning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-11.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 74 &#8211; As the Legion returns through the timestream, Superboy makes a lot of noise.\u00a0 They make it back to their headquarters, where Leviathan is waiting.\u00a0 He asks about XS, and they are surprised to learn that Jenni has not returned.\u00a0 Superboy is not happy that he was brought to the future without his consent, and begins to argue with Brainiac 5.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy calms the situation down.\u00a0 Rokk asks Triad and Chameleon to show Superboy around, to get him away from Brainy, but this causes Triad to split into three, as part of her doesn\u2019t want to miss the return of Valor, while another part of her is interested in Superboy (which he overhears).\u00a0 Rokk realizes that if Valor\u2019s return is going to spark off religious fanaticism, it needs to be kept secret.\u00a0 Luornu and Reep show Superboy the monitor room, where he scares Shrinking Violet, and blabs about Valor\u2019s rescue.\u00a0 He\u2019s overheard by a being on the monitor board.\u00a0 Brainy is having trouble reverse engineering the portal, and decides that he needs some old tech from an archive on Korr (it\u2019s surprising that he doesn\u2019t just fire up the time platform again).\u00a0 We see that the being from the monitor room is selling his news tip.\u00a0 Gim prepares a cruiser, and is joined by Superboy, Reep, Vi, Luornu, and Invisible Kid.\u00a0 As their ship departs, they hear someone land on it.\u00a0 Superboy goes to check what&#8217;s going on, and ends up in a fight with Ultra Boy, who wants to come with them.\u00a0 Lyle calms things down, and they learn that their mission is not a secret at all.\u00a0 President Chu is not happy that Rokk didn\u2019t think through the political consequences of bringing Valor back.\u00a0 Spark and Live Wire are at home with their parents on Winath, and it looks like Ayla wants to stay there for a while.\u00a0 On Korr, the team learns that someone stole the parts they are looking for, and the archivist sends them to the perpetrator, who has a collection they are hoping to acquire for their archives, which is why they didn\u2019t have him arrested.\u00a0 The Legion breaks into this guy\u2019s place, and discover a massive storehouse of superhero artifacts from the 20th century (this is a conceit I absolutely hate in comics, like the thousand years between those times don\u2019t matter).\u00a0 Superboy finds his jacket and wallet, and discovers that the packrat who has collected all this stuff is his old villain, the Scavenger.\u00a0 They fight, and the Scavenger does pretty well using thousand year old villain stuff.\u00a0 When it looks like Superboy might defeat him, the Scavenger grabs the Philosopher\u2019s Stone and turns him into inertron.\u00a0 He uses it on the other Legionnaires and Jo as well, and then stands around boasting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 31 &#8211; The end of the Future Tense Superboy crossover begins with Cosmic Boy showing Valor to Brande and President Chu.\u00a0 Chu talks about how many worlds view Valor as a religious figure or demigod.\u00a0 On Korr, the team still struggles, having been transformed into various elements by Scavenger and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone.\u00a0 Chameleon breaks out of the crystal he was trapped in, and changing shape, manages to knock the stone out of Scavenger\u2019s hand.\u00a0 Luornu grabs the stone while Cham keeps fighting, and manages to transmute the gas that was poisoning Shrinking Violet.\u00a0 Cham has turned into some terrible 90s armored being, and when he gets the upper hand, Scavenger grabs The Atom\u2019s belt from a pile and shrinks away.\u00a0 Violet has also shrunk down (I guess in the exact same place, or she\u2019d be very far away from him) and kicks him in the head, knocking him out.\u00a0 A little later, everyone is okay again, and Ultra Boy finds the part they\u2019d come looking for.\u00a0 When the squad returns to their headquarters, they are surprised to see a huge crowd outside, holding pictures of Valor.\u00a0 Superboy realizes that he must have leaked the secret of Valor\u2019s return (despite the fact that Ultra Boy joined them because he knew about it already, and this was discussed already).\u00a0 Saturn Girl greets them as Ultra Boy slips away.\u00a0 One of Triad\u2019s selves appears to proposition Superboy, which scandalizes the others.\u00a0 Imra gives Superboy a bit of a pep talk.\u00a0 Superboy takes the part to Brainiac 5, who has now built himself a forceshield belt, in case Superboy attacks him again.\u00a0 Superboy asks Brainy to figure out a way to fix his mistake of revealing that Valor is coming back.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy has Brainy set up outside, which he is not happy about, while Luornu shows how much devotion she holds for Valor (which is interesting, given that she\u2019s rejected the rest of the dominant ideology of her homeworld).\u00a0 Some dignitaries are on hand as they set up the portal they need.\u00a0 Imra and Rokk talk nicely to each other for a bit, until Rokk\u2019s allegiance to the President becomes a problem again.\u00a0 The plan is for Superboy to hold the portal together with his \u201ctactile telekinesis\u201d (I\u2019d like to understand how that\u2019s different from regular telekinesis).\u00a0 When Brainy turns on the portal, it collapses, angering the crowd.\u00a0 A little later, in a remote desert, Brainy and Superboy do their work again, this time with a handheld device, and Valor emerges from stasis (which is curious, given that this suggests that all points of reality merge with the stasis zone, or that they told Valor to travel to Qurac off-panel).\u00a0 Valor emerges, and while Superboy holds a red sun lamp on him, Brainy injects him with the anti-lead serum he developed, based on the anti-lead serum that Vril Dox used to cure Valor a thousand years before (that clearly didn\u2019t work as he got sick and needed to go into the stasis zone &#8211; it seems that in their attempt to have a perfectly clean Legion history, the writers and editors have already made it complicated).\u00a0 Valor is happy to see Superboy.\u00a0 Later, Valor is uncomfortable with Triad\u2019s attention, and when Rokk comes to talk to him about lying low and not drawing any attention to himself, he blames it on \u201cpeople like\u201d Luornu.\u00a0 He also thinks that his historic tasks have been exaggerated, and we are left a little confused by what he did or didn\u2019t do, as I still am under the impression that the classic old Legion stories still happened, and that should include the stories that made up Valor\u2019s series.\u00a0 Flipping through issues of Superboy, I see that it featured Babbage and Valor\u2019s spaceship, which suggests that the events of that series still happened.\u00a0 This makes me wonder just who Valor is &#8211; the Lar Gand that died because of Glorith, or the SW6 Valor who came back in time and replaced him.\u00a0 The 1990s aspect of the DCU didn\u2019t change after Zero Hour, did it?\u00a0 This is confusing.\u00a0 Anyway, Luornu is hurt by Valor\u2019s words, and she and Rokk leave him.\u00a0 Brainy is preparing to leave, to take Superboy home, and to retrieve SX.\u00a0 Everyone comes out to say goodbye.\u00a0 Superboy tries to comfort Luornu, saying that Valor was cold with him too, and Luornu kisses him.\u00a0 Brainy wants to get going, but something doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Superboy worries that he\u2019s stuck in the future, and Rokk takes the opportunity to give him a flight ring and offer him honorary membership on the team (which, I guess he wasn\u2019t going to do had they left the first time).\u00a0 Brainy fixes things, and the two of them blink away.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-11.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 75 &#8211; We move from the Superboy crossover straight into the Underworld Unleashed event.\u00a0 XS is floating lost in the timestream, but seeing a bubble in the distance, uses her flight ring to approach it.\u00a0 Inside that is the villain Chronos, rocking a new look, and a young girl.\u00a0 Chronos sees potential in XS\u2019s ability to help him, so he draws her into the bubble, and introduces the girl as Lori Morning.\u00a0 Of course, they aren\u2019t able to communicate, so Chronos takes her back to his base in California, in 1995.\u00a0 There, Chronos tries to learn about the technology that Jenni needed to enter the timestream, something he needs to end a \u201ccurse\u201d on him.\u00a0 Lori\u2019s father, Ronald, enters the room, and gets angry to see that something has been \u201cdone\u201d to Lori.\u00a0 Chronos has Lori leave with Jenni, and the two men argue.\u00a0 We learn that Ronald is a \u201cservant\u201d of Chronos\u2019s, and that Chronos entered into a bargain with Neron that increased his powerset, but now when he uses his powers, he gets older.\u00a0 He\u2019s learned to transfer\u00a0 his aging to others, which is why he takes Lori with him to the timestream.\u00a0 Ronald attacks him.\u00a0 In the rest of the house, Lori learns that Jenni has speed powers.\u00a0 In a way that is very unclear, they learn that there are five old men bricked into a wall; all of these are kids from Lori\u2019s school that Chronos has aged.\u00a0 In the timestream, Brainiac 5 is tracking Jenni\u2019s speed-force trail, but is surprised to see that it has disappeared.\u00a0 Rond Vidar, at the Time Institute, has detected timestream disturbances, and calls on Cosmic Boy to give him a heads up.\u00a0 Rokk denies that anything is going on, but then an alarm goes off, marking a time disturbance (just how would that alarm work?).\u00a0 The team rushes into the lab, and at this point, the rest of the issue gets a little unclear with a time paradox parallel structure thing happening.\u00a0 The Legion enter a room and find Chronos in a bubble with Lori, who is saying that Chronos killed her father.\u00a0 At the same time, Jenni busts into Chronos\u2019s lab, and finds him killing Ronald.\u00a0 He envelopes Jenni in his bubble and she begins to age, while in the 30th century, he begins to fight the Legion.\u00a0 Lori, who doesn\u2019t speak Interalc, tries to tell Shrinking Violet to get Chronos\u2019s glove, because that\u2019s where his \u201caging-power is\u201d.\u00a0 Jenni is told the same thing by Lori.\u00a0 Saturn Girl figures out that they are speaking English and learns with her telepathy about the glove.\u00a0 Invisible Kid grabs it, while in the 20th century, Jenni grabs it.\u00a0 Chronos, in both eras, complains that the glove harnesses his time energy, and in both eras, the building he\u2019s in starts to crumble with age.\u00a0 Rokk tries to protect his team, while Jenni pulls Lori away.\u00a0 Jenni gets the glove, and using her speed, takes it apart and puts it back together.\u00a0 Lori tells her to use it to restore her proper age, but instead she runs to the old men, fixing them before she fixes herself.\u00a0 Jenni hugs her, but then Chronos shows up again and grabs Jenni after seeing his own corpse on the floor, and then disappears with her.\u00a0 Later, Jenni is standing around when the cops talk to the kids Jenni saved, and when they talk about her speed, she understands the name Wally West.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 32 &#8211; The second Underworld Unleashed branded issue opens on Valor standing around in his room when he hears a crash and rushes out to help.\u00a0 He manages to save some Athramites, and Shvaughn Erin, from falling debris, and finds the Legion entangled in Brainy\u2019s collapsed lab.\u00a0 He helps as they all check in and prove they are fine, except for Chronos, who is crushed and dead.\u00a0 Valor finds Lori Morning, but she\u2019s now grown into early adulthood.\u00a0 Valor can speak with her, which makes Triad jealous.\u00a0 Leviathan realizes that Brainiac 5\u2019s time platform has been destroyed, trapping Brainy in the timestream.\u00a0 Lyle connects something, and we get a momentary flash of Brainy, before Cosmic Boy insists that he not touch anything.\u00a0 Outside, a news reporter talks about all of the failures of the Legion.\u00a0 Brande checks in with the team, as does the President, who wants to speak with Rokk.\u00a0 We see that Zoe is still lying in her spaceship, which no longer has life support.\u00a0 A white light flashes, and the ship disappears.\u00a0 Rokk and Saturn Girl take Lori to the Time Institute, where they meet with Rond Vidar.\u00a0 Rokk says something about having brought the schematic for Brainy\u2019s time machine, and Rond shushes him quickly, warning that they can\u2019t discuss this in public; we see that an SP is listening.\u00a0 In Rond\u2019s lab, Imra tries to get Lori to explain what\u2019s happened, but she\u2019s really flakey.\u00a0 Rokk doesn\u2019t like the Imra promises her that she can stay in their time, and then Lori does recap what happened with Chronos, her father, and XS, but her explanation of the doubled-up events of the last issue don\u2019t make a lot of sense.\u00a0 An SP (who is coloured differently from the one that we saw at the Time Institute) interrupts the President at a reception, to tell her that the Legion is experimenting with time travel; she wants the team shut down.\u00a0 Gim tries to get Lyle to stop messing around with Brainy\u2019s equipment, but as usual he doesn\u2019t listen, and manages to make Brainy appear, just as Shvaughn and two officers enter to seal the room.\u00a0 When a cop pulls the plug, Brainy disappears again.\u00a0 Somehow Rond is able to make him appear in his lab, and Brainy explains what he needs to do to help him out of the timestream.\u00a0 The SPs enter that lab, and fire on the equipment, causing chronal energies to go all over the place.\u00a0 They hit the canister that Chronos\u2019s remains are stored in (why would Rokk bring that?), and Chronos emerges fully restored.\u00a0 He starts inspecting the technology, and when Rokk attacks him, he ages the floor, dropping Rokk, Imra, and the SP\u2019s through it.\u00a0 Lori explains that Chronos\u2019s time controls are in his costume, and telepathically, Brainy communicates with Imra and the others.\u00a0 Lori kicks Chronos, and Rokk manages to knock him into the energy field where Brainy is.\u00a0 They appear to merge, and Brainy is able to use his glove to restore himself to reality, while Chronos disappears.\u00a0 The SPs want to arrest Brainy, and when Rokk learns that they have orders from the President, he allows it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-12.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 76 &#8211; It\u2019s the beginning of 1996, and the Legion titles adopted the practice used in the Superman books at the time, of giving a 1996 number of the cover, making it easier to determine reading order across the two titles.\u00a0 Marla is outside the damaged headquarters with architectural student Chuck Taine, who has been tasked with helping coordinate the repairs to the building.\u00a0 A piece of the building falls off, almost crushing Chuck and Marla, but Valor shows up just in time to save them.\u00a0 Marla reminds Valor why he needs to stay in hiding, and as Chuck figures out who he\u2019s looking at and starts freaking out, Valor concedes the point and flies off.\u00a0 Just then, Leviathan and Cosmic Boy, who are fighting, come tumbling out of the building.\u00a0 Gim is about to crush Marla and Chuck, but this time it\u2019s Gates, the insectoid teleporter who has apparently joined the team, who saves them, while throwing shade on the Legion.\u00a0 The others &#8211; Chameleon, Triad, Invisible Kid, and Star Boy, who has also just joined the team &#8211; join them and the fighting stops.\u00a0 Gim is upset that Rokk let Star Boy (who has casts on his arms) and Gates join the team because President Chu told him to, and that Rokk allowed Brainiac 5 to be arrested.\u00a0 As things defuse, Rokk blows off Marla\u2019s attempt to introduce Chuck, although Star Boy wants to meet him.\u00a0 Star Boy suggests that more than the building is broken.\u00a0 Somewhere, a robot uses its fingers to melt, burn, disintegrate, and dissolve statues of Legionnaires; we don\u2019t see the woman who is commanding it.\u00a0 Spark returns to the headquarters, hoping to get in without being seen by Rokk, but he finds her and puts her on double shifts in the monitor room as punishment for running out on the team.\u00a0 Lyle, Reep, Luornu, and Shrinking Violet try to have a secret meeting in their trophy room, but have to wait for Chuck to leave.\u00a0 Violet takes off, saying she\u2019s waiting for a lead on Kinetix.\u00a0 Lyle tells the others that he wants the Espionage Squad to do something about Rokk\u2019s leadership.\u00a0 The others don\u2019t like the idea, but Lyle tells them that it\u2019s already in action.\u00a0 We see Ultra Boy approaching the UP building, where he runs into Ambassador Wazzo.\u00a0 He confesses his love for Tinya, and she sees that his grief is real.\u00a0 She wants him to go destroy the rest of Legion headquarters, but their discussion is interrupted by a televised announcement from President Chu that she wants the Time Institute shut down and its research confiscated.\u00a0 Saturn Girl is at the Time Institute with Lori and Rond.\u00a0 Rond has determined that Lori is really only ten years old, although she doesn\u2019t like being told that and acts like a child.\u00a0 Rond learns that the SPs are coming, and Lori tries to make that about her, and storms off when she thinks Imra is treating her like a child.\u00a0 Ayla comes to the monitor room to see Violet, and gets her to go for a walk with her.\u00a0 When they get to Ayla\u2019s room, they see that there are a lot of flowers from her secret admirer waiting for her.\u00a0 Chuck tries to enter one room, but Rokk tells him its off-limits.\u00a0 Inside, Luornu is talking to Valor, who is packing.\u00a0 He\u2019s decided to leave, and this makes Luornu very sad.\u00a0 Gim works out with Vi, who explains that she\u2019s been pulling extra monitor room shifts because she\u2019s looking for Kinetix.\u00a0 Gim thinks that Zoe had a thing for him, and Vi makes fun of his 90s headgear and then shrinks away.\u00a0 Zoe wakes up in a medieval looking bed, with an old woman named Mysa standing over her.\u00a0 It turns out she\u2019s on Sorcerers\u2019 World, and her ears perk up when she hears about the power there.\u00a0 Vi is upset with herself for being so shy and lacking confidence.\u00a0 Most of the team is eating in the cafeteria.\u00a0 Chuck is there too, and his attempts to cheer Gim up go nowhere.\u00a0 Chuck realizes that everyone is miserable, and when pushed by Luornu and Gim, he reveals that his parents were killed by the Daxamites, yet he is thankful that the Legion saved the world.\u00a0 He tells them he\u2019s proud to serve there, but wonders if he\u2019s the only one who feels that way.\u00a0 As the SPs enter the Time Institute, Imra looks for Lori.\u00a0 Just then the robot from earlier melts through the wall, repeating how it is going to kill people.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR #33 &#8211; Saturn Girl continues to fight the unnamed assailant.\u00a0 Rond Vidar, who is rushing to transfer and delete his Time Institute files, ends up in the same conflict.\u00a0 Imra is not able to get into the assailant\u2019s mind, as he\u2019s using a thought-scrambler (I\u2019d thought he was a robot up to now, given his vocabulary and square speech balloons).\u00a0 He\u2019s about to kill Saturn Girl, but then hesitates, allowing her to trip him.\u00a0 He takes off.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Spark talks to her mom and learns that Garth has left home again without telling anyone where he\u2019s going.\u00a0 She also sees that she has another gift from her secret admirer, which she did not see anyone deliver.\u00a0 Leviathan is trying to train Star Boy, but gets annoyed when he uses his weight powers to cause some damage to the gym (it turns out that the robot he was sparring with is really Chameleon).\u00a0 Star Boy is upset that Gim is giving him grief, when suddenly energy comes out of his eyes, hitting Cham.\u00a0 He\u2019s unable to control this energy, but Gates teleports him into the pool, which fixes things.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy is talking with Chuck about how to improve the headquarters when Imra arrives with Rond to tell him that Lori is missing.\u00a0 Rokk gets grumpy with Imra, and they argue, until Shrinking Violet reminds them that they are friends.\u00a0 Rokk gets a call from President Chu, who wants the team to go to a non-UP world called Guron, where Imra\u2019s assailant from earlier is rampaging.\u00a0 The team loads into a cruiser, and we learn that Gates sees this as an act of invasion, and Ayla keeps telling Vi about her gift.\u00a0 Lori wanders around Metropolis, and mistakes a sentient for a pet, leading to a shopkeeper calling the SPs.\u00a0 On Takron-Galtos, the prison planet, we learn that Brainiac 5 is not telling the warden anything during his interrogation.\u00a0 On Sorcerers World, Kinetix and Mysa talk, and we learn that Mysa wants Zoe\u2019s help to destroy the Emerald Eye of Ekron, which she claims stole her youth; she\u2019s not happy to see that Zoe is enamored of the Eye.\u00a0 As the team arrives on Guron, their cruiser begins to dissolve, dumping them all into the sky.\u00a0 Invisible Kid\u2019s ring is destroyed, but Gim saves him.\u00a0 A chunk of building drops on Gim, knocking him out, while the assailant dissolves the air around the rest of the Legionnaires, knocking them all out except for Violet.\u00a0 We see her flying towards the enemy\u2019s head, promising to take him down.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-12.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LSH 77 &#8211; A woman named Nara Minsork arrives on Takron-Galtos, where she has a meeting with Warden Kretyon arranged.\u00a0 She\u2019s from Titan, and the prison planet\u2019s computers immediately identify her as wanted on many warrants.\u00a0 The Warden has given her an arrest override though, allowing her to enter freely.\u00a0 She is there to get information out of Brainiac 5\u2019s brain, but the Warden has also alerted Titan to her presence, so she doesn\u2019t have much time to finish the job before they come to get her.\u00a0 Minsork tries to explain how difficult it is to read the mind of a Coluan, and her first attempt does not go well.\u00a0 On her second attempt, she finds a memory of Brainy as a child, and she learns that he was raised by robots.\u00a0 Investigating further, she discovers that his ancestor is the villain Brainiac, who had a 12th level intellect that was passed to his son Vril Dox, founder of LEGION, and to his grandson, Lyrl Dox, who took control of LEGION from him, all in the 1990s.\u00a0 She learns that there was some sort of scandal on Colu involving Brainiac 4, and all records of that Brainiac were wiped (including, presumably, how it took a thousand years to go from Brainiac 3 to Brainiac 5).\u00a0 Minsork learns that young Brainy (who is not called by his name, Querl, once in this issue) was bored by things that other Coluans found interesting.\u00a0 She almost discovers a key focus of his thoughts, but is tossed out of his head again.\u00a0 When the Warden yells at her, she forces him out of the cell telepathically, so she can use a mind-grabber, a very illegal piece of technology, to enhance her telepathy.\u00a0 This time, she\u2019s better able to navigate Brainy\u2019s mind, and finds a memory of him as a child conducting unapproved energy experiments that, due to the intervention of some adults, lead to an explosion.\u00a0 The leaders of Colu decide to get rid of Brainy, and this is how he came to work at Brande Industries, where he quickly blew up three labs.\u00a0 Brande sent him to intern at the Time Institute, but that got interrupted when he joined the Legion.\u00a0 Minsork discovers Brainy\u2019s grief at Andromeda\u2019s death, and suspects this is why he wanted to travel through time (which doesn\u2019t make sense, given that he was working at the Time Institute before she died).\u00a0 Minsork looks for Brainy\u2019s happiest memory, his only happy memory in fact, and discovers that it was when he was born.\u00a0 We see that his mother, Brainiac 4 (is she 900 years old?) passed him over to other Coluans and left.\u00a0 Minsork realizes that Brainy wants to use time travel to meet his mother.\u00a0 At this point, Brainy starts to interact with Minsork, insisting that she can\u2019t leave with knowledge of his memory, and threatening to trap her in his mind.\u00a0 She gives up, and we see her being dragged away by the prison guards.\u00a0 Brainy is annoyed that even in prison, he can\u2019t think without being interrupted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LNR 34 &#8211; Shrinking Violet flies at the \u201cMelt, Disintegrate, etc.\u201d guy, using her rapid size changing to stay out of his way.\u00a0 He burns part of her uniform, and she decks him, cracking his helmet, and revealing that he is really Jan Arrah.\u00a0 Violet feels sorry for hurting him.\u00a0 On a planet called Drak IV, Valor is getting stomped out by the Gatherers, a nomadic tribe of arms smugglers (one of them looks like Kono, from the last Legion incarnation).\u00a0 Valor takes them all down easily, wrecks their weapons, and leaves before the SPs arrive, since he has to remain hidden.\u00a0 On Sorcerers\u2019 World, Mysa puts a sigil on Kinetix\u2019s face, turning her vaguely whiteish, and then sends her away to look for the Emerald Eye (I guess it wasn\u2019t in the garden with them last issue); Mysa seems kind of evil now.\u00a0 At Legion HQ, Saturn Girl, Leviathan, and Cosmic Boy hook the unconscious (and eyepatched) Jan to their VR system, so they can see what happened to him.\u00a0 They see him turning the dead of Trom into crystal memorials, when Ambassador Wazzo confronts him, and shoots him.\u00a0 Later, we see him in his villain garb, flying to Earth.\u00a0 Rokk wants to take the file straight to the President.\u00a0 Imra gets a call from the SP about Lori, and leaves to deal with that.\u00a0 Chuck wants into a room to check its specs, but no one will answer.\u00a0 When he opens the door anyway, he finds Violet changing.\u00a0 Chuck runs off, while Triad comments that Vi took it well.\u00a0 She explains that she\u2019s realized that her shyness was making her miserable, and that she\u2019s ready to be more bold.\u00a0 She\u2019s modified her uniform to remove the shoulders.\u00a0 Imra picks Lori up from the SPs, and Lori seems more apologetic than before.\u00a0 Rokk, Gim, and Invisible Kid interrupt the UP\u2019s session to show President Chu the proof that Wazzo was behind the attack on the Time Institute and that planet.\u00a0 Winema (apparently that\u2019s her name) just sits there, but Chu notices in the footage, on the screen beside Jan as he flew to Earth, what looks like the Sun-Eater (this is such an awkward transition).\u00a0 She adjourns the council (I guess no one does anything about Wazzo), and takes the Legionnaires to a secret bunker, where she shows them footage of the Sun-Eater (which is a self-explanatory thing, right?).\u00a0 She explains that five worlds have genetically engineered people to fight the Sun-Eater should it ever return.\u00a0 They are Mano, Tharok, Validus, the Persuader, and the Empress of Venegar, who are known as the Fatal Five (none of this makes sense &#8211; you have a sun-sized creature, and your plan to stop it involves a guy with an axe?).\u00a0 The President wants the Legion to assemble these psychos.\u00a0 Later, at headquarters, Rokk explains this to the team, who, aside from Gates, all think they should follow the President\u2019s plan.\u00a0 On planet Gohan, Tharok receives a call from someone he doesn\u2019t know (I\u2019m guessing Wazzo), who claims to have been behind the plan to assemble the Fatal Five; she wants the Five to kill the Legion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 78 &#8211; The Inner Council of the UP have gathered on a roof to look for the Sun-Eater.\u00a0 President Chu announces to the media that she\u2019s sent the Legion to address the Sun-Eater problem, which sets off Ambassador Wazzo, who has somehow not been arrested yet.\u00a0 The President promises to make sure that all UP worlds are safe from the Sun-Eater, which creates an instant panic among non-UP worlds.\u00a0 We see that the Legion has split into five teams to go retrieve the Fatal Five.\u00a0 Cosmic Boy and Shrinking Violet are in one shuttle, while Spark and Saturn Girl go after Validus in the cruiser, Chameleon and Leviathan go to get the Empress, Invisible Kid and Gates are headed for Tharok, and Star Boy and Triad are tasked with retrieving The Persuader.\u00a0 Rokk and Vi land on the moon, where Leland McCauley wants Evolvo to stop them from getting Mano.\u00a0 Vi scares Evolvo\u2019s ape-self, and Rokk shows McCauley an executive order.\u00a0 He\u2019s been keeping Mano in a terrible cell, and has even imported sewer rats to make things worse.\u00a0 Given the chance to help the Legion in return for a pardon, Mano agrees to come with Rokk.\u00a0 On Pasnic, Validus is already rampaging when Ayla and Imra arrive.\u00a0 Imra is able to frighten Validus with a mental projection, and they capture him.\u00a0 Gim and Reep find that the asteroid built to imprison the Empress is empty; they find that she\u2019s killed all the guards.\u00a0 She attacks them, but Gim is able to stop her, and explain why they\u2019re there.\u00a0 Lyle explains to Gates that he knows about Tharok from his days working for Earthgov, and shares the cyborg\u2019s origin with him.\u00a0 Tharok, who has the Persuader\u2019s axe, surrenders immediately.\u00a0 Thom and Luornu escort the Persuader, accompanied by the new warden, who is not happy with the whole situation.\u00a0 Luornu sees Brainy, but he ignores her.\u00a0 The Legion gathers on Takron-Galtos with the Fatal Five.\u00a0 Rokk starts to explain how things will work, with the Five expected to stop the Sun-Eater with the Legion\u2019s help, but Tharok immediately switches things up, giving the Persuader his axe, freeing Validus, and handing the Empress a knife he had hidden in his metal arm.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t look good for the Legion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-7.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LNR 35 &#8211; Roger Stern takes over the co-plotting and scripting for Legionnaires with this issue, while Tom Peyer starts working only on the LSH book, and Tom McCraw continues to co-plot both titles.\u00a0 Rond Vidar is now working out of the Legion headquarters, which Chuck is still working to repair.\u00a0 They are both surprised to see a holographic projection of Lori Morning, dressed in a terrible ensemble of Legionesque clothes, and calling herself Future Girl.\u00a0 Marla is not happy that she\u2019s just announce to all of Metropolis that the Legion are not in residence, for the very reason that some shadowy figure decides that it\u2019s time to strike at the HQ.\u00a0 Rond is examining Lori, under the watchful eye of Shvaughn Erin, when they learn that there are intruders in the building.\u00a0 The intruders are blocking signals from the outside, and are scrambling the building\u2019s security systems.\u00a0 Marla puts Shvaughn in charge.\u00a0 Chuck is playing pool with Tenzil Kem when three intruders, guys in camo carrying rifles, enter the room.\u00a0 Chuck turns off the lights with a pool ball.\u00a0 At least five of these guys are in the main generator room, and the Athramites are not able to hold them off.\u00a0 Shvaughn, Rond, and Lori arrive, and when Shvaughn shoots at one of the intruders, he splits into many smaller versions of himself.\u00a0 They see that they have a caustic bomb, which could destroy much of Metropolis that close to the power core.\u00a0 One of the intruders in the games room strikes Chuck from very far away, and when Tenzil tries to eat his gun (remember, in the previous Legion incarnation, Tenzil was Matter-Eater Lad), but realizes that the gun is organic.\u00a0 When Marla enters the room, they deduce that the intruders are shape changers.\u00a0 They take on Chuck and Tenzil\u2019s likenesses.\u00a0 On Takron-Galtos, we join the Legion, who are surrounded by the Fatal Five.\u00a0 While the team stands in a circle, Shrinking Violet telepathically tells Saturn Girl to keep Validus calm, while she flies towards Tharok, the leader.\u00a0 Athramites discover a device attached to Legion HQ.\u00a0 One of the intruders gets too close to some sort of energy field in the generator room, and immediately liquifies into proto-plasm.\u00a0 Lori jumps into danger, and manages to knock the bomb out of one of the intruder\u2019s hands. The problem is, the liquid within it causes the walkway she\u2019s on to collapse.\u00a0 Some of the intruders fall into the exposed power core, but Lori hangs on to one of them.\u00a0 Marla, Tenzil, and Chuck keep fighting their foes, who never talk.\u00a0 They run off, and turn into birds, flying away.\u00a0 As Shvaughn tries to reach Lori, she tries to convince the intruder she\u2019s holding to hang on.\u00a0 It talks, saying that it doesn\u2019t deserve to live, but Lori gets through to it.\u00a0 It turns into a familiar shape &#8211; that of a Protean, and Shvaughn saves them both.\u00a0 Later, the Protean is in a round ball form, while the others all talk about how things went.\u00a0 In Australia, XS returns to her proper time, and starts to run towards Metropolis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 79 &#8211; The Warden puts Takron-Galtos into lockdown, and the scene where the Legion confront the Fatal Five is repeated from LNR 35.\u00a0 Vi\u2019s plan to damage Tharok by flying into his metal ear fails when small missiles are launched at her.\u00a0 Imra is not able to get into Validus\u2019s mind, and feedback knocks her down.\u00a0 Rokk gets the teams to stop fighting momentarily, long enough for Tharok to make it clear that the Sun-Eater isn\u2019t real, and that the team has been set up (by the President?).\u00a0 Tharok orders his team to attack again, and they all start fighting.\u00a0 Gim and Thom try to take down Validus, and Thom\u2019s powers send the other two crashing through the floor.\u00a0 Thom follows, as does Mano.\u00a0 Tharok manages to take limited control of the T-G security in that room, and has some drones take down Rokk and Ayla.\u00a0 Violet flees.\u00a0 While Thom tends to Gim, who was hurt by Validus\u2019s mental lightning, he manages to see through a massive engine.\u00a0 He also manages to sense Mano, who is behind him.\u00a0 He punches him so hard that his casts shatter, and Mano is knocked out.\u00a0 The new Warden, Wafil, rushes through the facility towards the command centre.\u00a0 Violet finds Brainiac 5\u2019s cell, and pulls him out of his deep thoughts.\u00a0 She wants to borrow his force-field belt, but he decides he should help.\u00a0 He opens his cell.\u00a0 In the command centre, the Warden orders the section the Legion are in separated from the rest of the prison, and fired into space.\u00a0 The powering up of the engines bothers Validus, and he blasts Thom.\u00a0 Everyone is shaken when the part of the prison they are in lifts off.\u00a0 Gates teleports to help Gim, just as Brainy and Violet arrive.\u00a0 Brainy breaks the Empress\u2019s knife, but gets hit hard by the Persuader.\u00a0 The Persuader has trouble keeping Luornu\u2019s three selves off him, while the Empress snatches Vi out of the air.\u00a0 Thom is losing consciousness, just as Validus starts to wreck the engine (this team is always facing people trying to destroy power-generators and stuff like that).\u00a0 Gates manages to revive him so that he can make the engine so heavy it falls through the station\u2019s hull, leaving Validus\u2019s large body to plug the hole it makes.\u00a0 Above, Tharok, the Empress, and the Persuader have every Legionnaire unconscious, and they talk about killing them, mentioning that it\u2019s required by their benefactor.\u00a0 Gates teleports into this scene, and is about to be killed when the ceiling blows up.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-7.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>LNR 36 &#8211; XS runs across the ocean, pursued by a flying robed being firing eyebeams at her.\u00a0 Another person in a robe emerges from the water, knocking her off her feet.\u00a0 She\u2019s caught by the first person, as the second removes her hood, shocking Jenni.\u00a0 From a news broadcast, we see that Titan and Braal have returned to a war footing.\u00a0 We also see that Ambassador Wazzo is still railing against the Legion, and is not happy that they have been sent to deal with the Sun-Eater problem.\u00a0 We see that Wazzo is under house arrest, where technology is keeping her from phasing out of her apartment.\u00a0 On the separated part of Takron-Galtos, Gates is the only Legionnaire still standing, with the Fatal Five (other than Validus and Mano), circling him.\u00a0 Just then, the hull opens, and the Legion Rescue Squad &#8211; Live Wire, Valor, Ultra Boy, Andromeda, and Jan Arrah &#8211; come flying in and attack the Five.\u00a0 Valor and Laurel exit to keep their part of the station from spinning out of control.\u00a0 They aim it towards a large asteroid that has some atmosphere.\u00a0 Jenni rushes to revive the Legionnaires.\u00a0 Garth explains to Rokk that they picked up Jenni\u2019s signal as they were leaving Earth, and brought her with them.\u00a0 Mano recovers, and as Jo is about to hit him, he hears a voice telling him to be tough.\u00a0 He switches his powers to invulnerability just as the Persuader brings his axe down on him.\u00a0 Jan provides some cover, while Garth has Imra read his mind to get up to speed on what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 This gives us the chance to see that Rokk had arranged for Garth to put together a squad in secret, around the time that Chronos first attacked.\u00a0 Garth recruited Jo, then they went with Jan to Planet Hell to get Laurel, who needed to hear that Jan forgave her for her part in the genocide on Trom.\u00a0 They met up with Valor, who found Laurel\u2019s obsequiousness embarrassing.\u00a0 Valor had information for Garth.\u00a0 Imra figures out that Rokk had arranged for Valor to leave.\u00a0 The part of Takron-Galtos lands on the asteroid, but Validus starts rampaging.\u00a0 Tharok hears from his boss, who insists that the Five not get captured.\u00a0 Just as the Empress is going to kill Violet, Kinetix appears out of nowhere, demanding that she get the Emerald Eye.\u00a0 Zoe didn\u2019t expect to find her teammates there, but joins in the fight.\u00a0 The Five gather around Tharok, who teleports them away.\u00a0 The Legion stands around, and Brainy learns that Laurel is still alive.\u00a0 A little later, they learn that the Five stole their cruiser.\u00a0 Everyone gets reacquainted, Zoe learns that she has a tail now, and Lyle insists that there is no sign of a Sun-Eater in UP space, and that someone on Earth was commanding the Fatal Five.\u00a0 The Five take the stolen cruiser to a weapons cache somewhere remote, and get their hands on a missile.\u00a0 The Legion knows where they went, Drak IV, where Valor was recently.\u00a0 Imra gets a call from Titan, recalling her to join the military, as war with Braal is imminent.\u00a0 Rokk divides the team and its guests into three squads.\u00a0 Gim, Jan, Valor, Zoe, Jenni, and Laurel are to go after the Fatal Five, while Imra, Gates, the Ranzzes, Jo, and Thom are to go stop the war.\u00a0 Rokk, Lyle, Reep, Vi, and Luornu are heading to Earth to figure out what Ambassador Wazzo is up to (wasn\u2019t Jo working for her at one point?).\u00a0 Rokk wants Brainy to come with him to speak to the President, and Reep tells Brainy a secret.\u00a0 On Titan, Doctor Aven, Imra\u2019s old mentor, tries to convince his leaders that Braal does not want a war, but news that a missile has been fired at Titan ends his chances to reach anyone.\u00a0 Lyle, Reep, Luornu, and Vi insist on speaking to Wazzo at her home, and after the SPs let them in, they hear a commotion.\u00a0 Vi is knocked out, Luornu collapses, and it looks like Reep and Lyle are dead.\u00a0 Wazzo has escaped.\u00a0 Brainy speaks to President Chu, offering her his force-field belt, and explaining that the Sun-Eater is a scam.\u00a0 When Chu gets word that Wazzo has escaped, we see Wazzo rise through the floor.\u00a0 She grabs a guard\u2019s gun, and shoots the two guards, Brainy, and President Chu, claiming that there are more surprises to come.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LSH 80 &#8211; RJ Brande forces his way into the monitor room, where Rokk is working to keep track of all that\u2019s going on, including rioting on Earth, the disappearance of Lyle and his squad, the Titanian ships flying towards Braal, and Gim\u2019s squad preparing to take on the Fatal Five.\u00a0 Rokk gets ignored by the SP when he tries to explain that there is no Sun-Eater, and then sees that Lyle, Reep, and Luornu are dead.\u00a0 Rokk starts to cry, telling Brande he knows who is behind all of this.\u00a0 Ambassador Wazzo has Brainiac 5 and President Chu held at gunpoint by her associate Gullo (looking very Star Wars bounty hunter).\u00a0 Wazzo says that if they bring Tinya back to life, she won\u2019t kill them; she knows about Brainy\u2019s time travel device, and wants him to use it.\u00a0 Thom, Ayla, Garth, and Jo fly around the Titanian ships, keeping them busy.\u00a0 Jo experiences some momentary pain, which has been happening to him lately.\u00a0 Gates teleports Imra onto the lead Titanian ship, where they are immediately surrounded by men with guns.\u00a0 On Drak IV, Valor, Laurel, Zoe, Jan, Jenni, and Gim have missiles fired at them, which they destroy or deflect, and go after the Fatal Five.\u00a0 Laurel tosses the Empress into a wall, but Validus takes down the Daxamites.\u00a0 Mano goes to warn Tharok that the Legion are there, and learns that Tharok has fired a megabomb at Titan\u2019s largest city.\u00a0 Brainy refuses Wazzo\u2019s request, which leads to her confessing, in front of a camera, that she is behind the Fatal Five\u2019s attack on the Legion, and that she created the fake Sun-Eater footage.\u00a0 She also claims that she started the war between Braal and Titan years ago, as a reason for the UP to exist.\u00a0 Rokk works desperately to get a fix on their location, while Wazzo wants Gullo to kill the President.\u00a0 When she refuses, Wazzo shoots Gullo, and turns her gun on the President herself, giving Brainy the count of three to agree to what she wants.\u00a0 Brainy\u2019s shackles fall off, and he jumps on Wazzo, who shoots him through the chest.\u00a0 Rokk, shocked by all of this, finally has a fix on them, and he and Brande prepare to go there.\u00a0 Imra tries to get through to the Titanians, but they aren\u2019t prepared to listen until Aven shows up and mentally shuts them down.\u00a0 He expresses his confidence that Rokk will fix the war problem.\u00a0 Two large missiles launch on Drak IV (I don\u2019t know why there was reference to a single megabomb before).\u00a0 Jenni takes down Validus, whole Jan transmutes the Persuader\u2019s axe into cheese spread.\u00a0 Valor and Laurel, who keeps showing him too much deference, go after Tharok, and find that Mano has hurt him badly, because Mano is not down for genocide.\u00a0 Laurel refuses to follow Lar in stopping the missiles, believing she can save Tharok\u2019s life.\u00a0 Lar goes on his own and manages to destroy the missiles.\u00a0 President Chu grabs Gullo\u2019s gun, and shoots the camera.\u00a0 She calls Wazzo crazy for confessing on camera, and then goes on to admit that she was behind all the things that Wazzo took credit for &#8211; the Braal-Titan war, brainwashing Jan, and bringing the Fatal Five together.\u00a0 What Chu doesn\u2019t know is that there is another camera in the room, and her confession is being broadcast.\u00a0 Rokk and Brande enter and tell her this.\u00a0 That\u2019s when we learn that Wazzo is actually Chameleon, and that Lyle was in the room the whole time.\u00a0 Gullo was actually Violet, and Brainy was never hurt, as \u201cWazzo\u2019s\u201d gun wasn\u2019t real.\u00a0 Lyle explains that Luornu is standing guard over the real Wazzo.\u00a0 Brande doesn\u2019t understand how Reep could have impersonated Wazzo so well when he can\u2019t speak Interlac, but it turns out he\u2019s learned it very well, and has been pretending for some time.\u00a0 Later, the team gathers outside UP HQ, and Rokk explains that back when Aven came to help Imra, he shared his suspicions about Chu with Rokk telepathically.\u00a0 Later, when she seemed to be increasingly demanding on Rokk, he played along, distancing himself from his closest friends so as to allay suspicion.\u00a0 He also encouraged Lyle to put together his espionage squad to gather evidence.\u00a0 Rokk figured out that Jan\u2019s memories of Wazzo brainwashing him were false.\u00a0 When the time platform\u2019s existence was revealed, it made Chu nervous, so she decided to do away with the Legion, which is what led to Rokk making his move, getting Garth to put together the rescue squad.\u00a0 The UP session lets out, and when Luornu tries to apologize to Wazzo for having to detain her, the Ambassador is as rude as ever.\u00a0 Brande walks by, looking furious.\u00a0 Marla tells the kids that Brande has been chosen as the new President, and that he\u2019s pardoned Laurel and Brainy, and abolished the Legion draft, making the team independent and free to choose its own members.\u00a0 A Legion flag is raised, and everyone stands around looking happy.\u00a0 (This leaves me with a few questions though &#8211; why was Rokk so upset and unable to find Brainy and the President, unless he wasn\u2019t sure he could trust Brande as well?\u00a0 And why did Wazzo try to recruit Jo to work against the Legion prior to all of this?)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-6.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>This column has gotten huge, and I don\u2019t even think I\u2019m halfway through this run, so this feels like a good place to pause and look at this first massive storyline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m surprised to say that I am finding myself enjoying this run more than I expected.\u00a0 I remain frustrated that the Legion I love was erased for this rebooted version, but I appreciate the ways in which the writers have taken a new approach to some of the classic ideas, and find that some of the characters are more fleshed out than they were in the classic runs.\u00a0 It\u2019s not all positive, but generally, I want to keep reading this stuff, and that\u2019s a pretty big endorsement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d like to look at some of the characters in depth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cosmic Boy &#8211; I think that the writers did a fine job of building Rokk as a true leader with vision, although I\u2019m not sure why the notion of him having a relationship with Imra was dangled and then just disappeared (unless he found her weird mental reversion to childhood the least sexy thing ever).\u00a0 Rokk carries the burden of leadership well here, and is pretty likeable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturn Girl &#8211; I\u2019ve not always been a huge Imra fan, and found the mental regression storyline very irritating.\u00a0 In the early issues, the team put her down a lot, and she didn\u2019t seem to have a large role to play for being a founding member, and I still find she retreats into the background a fair amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live Wire &#8211; It\u2019s interesting that the character who is off the team more than he\u2019s on it has undergone the most character development, and gotten more spotlight than most.\u00a0 Garth is pretty likeable, and I like that he built a more positive relationship with\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spark &#8211; Ayla doesn\u2019t do a whole lot in this series, and I\u2019m still very curious to learn who her secret admirer is (I have no memory of ever learning this).\u00a0 It could be Vi, which would make sense given their relationship during the 5YL Legion run, but we see her flirting with Tenzil a lot too.\u00a0 This storyline fell by the wayside, so I hope it gets picked up again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colossal Boy &#8211; I like the way Gim is shown as having more going on than his earlier counterpart.\u00a0 His loyalty is apparent, and I like the way he\u2019s grown from his disastrous first mission.\u00a0 Getting rid of the dumb headgear was a good idea as well.\u00a0 I wonder how he had advanced so quickly in the SP while still being a teenager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Triad &#8211; Luornu got some of the most detailed character development, and confirming that her three selves have different personality traits made her a lot more interesting.\u00a0 What doesn\u2019t work with her is that she\u2019s often shown as being a little immature, yet she was RJ Brande\u2019s trusted assistant?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invisible Kid &#8211; I think that Lyle shows some of the most potential of any of these characters.\u00a0 He was long dead before I started reading the classic Legion, and so I never knew much about him before the SW6 Lyle was shown to be an effective leader.\u00a0 Here, I like that he has some shady connections to Earthgov, and I liked the early tension between him and Rokk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chameleon &#8211; There\u2019s long been a bit of a diversity problem in the Legion, and with Reep being the first clearly not human character, there is some story potential.\u00a0 I think it has already been mined out though, and whatever his family connection to Durlan religion is, it seems to be getting ignored for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shrinking Violet &#8211; It\u2019s cool how the writers have worked on building Vi up.\u00a0 Her earliest appearances show her as so shy, yet she\u2019s already left that behind and become a little more forceful and capable, although she\u2019s nowhere near the badass we saw in the 5YL Legion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-6.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Andromeda &#8211; Laurel Gand was one of the best additions of the previous Legion series, but this is not the same Laurel at all.\u00a0 I like the way that she was used in the White Triangle storyline, and shown to be a xenophobe and racist, but not beyond redemption.\u00a0 At the same time, I miss the bold and confident Laurel of Giffen\u2019s run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brainiac 5 &#8211; Brainy is often an annoying character, and I feel like the writers fell back on the easiest way to portray him.\u00a0 At the same time, he\u2019s really more of a plot device than a character.\u00a0 The most interesting thing about him is that they are showing his interest in Laurel again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">XS &#8211; It\u2019s cool that the writers decided to create some new characters for this series, and it\u2019s true that the Legion never had a speedster before, but Jenni hasn\u2019t had enough screen time to become interesting yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinetix &#8211; On the other hand, we\u2019ve seen about as much of Zoe as we have Jenni, and it\u2019s way too much.\u00a0 I find this character exceptionally annoying, as they try to recast the White Witch as a character who derives her powers from finding magical items.\u00a0 She\u2019s not likeable, even before she got a tail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Boy &#8211; Thom hasn\u2019t been around much, so there\u2019s not much to say about him, other than that his new powers are a little interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gates &#8211; This is a great new character, maybe the best one added to the Legion over this time.\u00a0 I like that Gates is so politically opposed to the Legion, and such a difficult sentient to be around.\u00a0 It\u2019s also cool that the most non-humanoid character in the book would have the most radically different opinions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultra Boy &#8211; It\u2019s crazy that the Legion wouldn\u2019t be doing everything they can to bring Jo on the team, especially in the post-Andromeda, pre-Valor window, when he\u2019d easily be the most powerful person there.\u00a0 I like that Jo is so broken up over Tinya\u2019s death, even though their relationship wasn\u2019t given the proper amount of time to be believable.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad he\u2019s finally going to stay with the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan Arrah &#8211; Jan has long been a favourite Legionnaire of mine from the classic run, so I was happy to see him return in this run.\u00a0 The roots of the character are there &#8211; we see his philosophical differences from the other Legionnaires, and hope we get to explore that more later on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valor &#8211; Including Valor as they did was probably a big mistake.\u00a0 There are huge continuity issues with him again, as his appearance here, after being put in stasis by Superboy in the 20th century, does not fit with his final appearances at the end of the old Legion series, which we\u2019ve been told actually did still happen in the post-Zero Hour world.\u00a0 This Valor still managed to seed the worlds that became the UP, and his interactions with Superboy show that he is the same Lar Gand that Glorith killed towards the end of the Valor series.\u00a0 Is this going to get explained, or is everyone just pretending that he\u2019s a different incarnation?\u00a0 Including Valor makes things so confusing\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Legionnaires-5.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>Reading these comics right after having read so many issues of the classic Legion stories (I\u2019ve been reading one issue a day since August), it\u2019s hard to ignore how much depth of character and world-building was lost in the decision to reboot the property.\u00a0 I feel like the writers made good use of some legacy ideas (like having the Sun-Eater factor into the President Chu storyline, or making Roxxas a Daxamite who is still responsible for the genocide on Trom), but were also left without a deep well of supporting characters or established worlds.\u00a0 I did think it\u2019s cool that they took two characters that don\u2019t work well in the modern era, Matter-Eater Lad and Bouncing Boy, and found roles for them at Legion headquarters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, it\u2019s weird reading about a Legion universe without Khunds, the Dark Circle, or even the Dominion (except for their involvement in XS\u2019s origin).\u00a0 I miss characters like Doctor Gym\u2019ll, and feel that some of the usual supporting characters we have seen, like Shvaughn Erin and Gigi Cusimano, have been given too small a role to play.\u00a0 It\u2019s also strange that they are significantly older than the Legionnaires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rond Vidar is being used well in this incarnation, but it looks like he\u2019s going to be increasingly connected to Lori Morning, who I absolutely hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Lori is emblematic of one of my biggest problems with this series.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know who DC was aiming it towards.\u00a0 The loyal Legion reader at this point was not the target audience, but at a time when most mainstream comics were getting \u201cextreme\u201d and not that interested in character development or story, this book was providing both of those things.\u00a0 I doubt it was targeted at a young audience, with its complicated publishing schedule, either.\u00a0 So a character like Lori, who seems to be reaching out to a younger audience, just ends up annoying twenty-year old me at the time, and more than twenty year old me now even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This further opens up other issues I have with the reboot.\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel like McCraw, Peyer, (briefly) Waid, or Stern have anything new to say about the concept of the Legion here.\u00a0 Sure, they may have added another non-humanoid character, and both Kid Quantum and XS are black (and barely around), but beyond this very surface nod to diversity, this is really just a reimagining of the original concept.\u00a0 Brian Michael Bendis\u2019s new Legion reboot, while still pretty untested at the time that I\u2019m writing this, does look like its a fresh take on the classic concept on many levels, as was Waid\u2019s \u201cthreeboot\u201d Legion (despite the fact that I hated the costumes and the weird insistence on youth rebellion).\u00a0 This Legion is basically the original, if it was started in the 90s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does it need to have more than that?\u00a0 Like I said, these stories are enjoyable, and the lack of continuity doesn\u2019t actually hinder things that much.\u00a0 Sure, I feel nostalgic for what was lost, but I quickly found myself liking some of these characters, and being interested in their growth as a team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are some problems with the short lived continuity we did have, and some things are left unanswered (maybe they\u2019ll get to it).\u00a0 At the beginning, when the team was dealing with the White Triangle, we learned that Doyle, RJ Brande\u2019s close associate, was behind trying to have him assassinated.\u00a0 Why was there not more on that later?\u00a0 That seems like a big deal to me.\u00a0 Also, why was Marla Latham never properly introduced?\u00a0 He just seems to be around a lot.\u00a0 And if he\u2019s Brande\u2019s close friend, who was Doyle?\u00a0 Sure, we know that in the classic Legion, Doyle was a Durlan who helped guide Brande upon his arrival in the 30th century, but there is little to no evidence that Brande is a Durlan in this incarnation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-5.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" \/>The other nagging question I\u2019m left with is what happened to all the other Daxamites that participated in the genocide on Trom?\u00a0 We saw a lot more than the four who eventually got punished for it, but they were never heard from again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am impressed with how tight the writing is in this series, as the writing team maintained perfect continuity across the two titles.\u00a0 I was surprised to see Roger Stern join, as I didn\u2019t remember that he\u2019d been involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art-wise, these two books stood out in the era of terrible 90s art.\u00a0 Lee Moder\u2019s art is absolutely fantastic, and his characters are so expressive and feel believable as young teens.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand why Moder never became a big name artist, or why we don\u2019t see more of his work today.\u00a0 He brought some real humanity to these characters, and I love how he draws Cosmic Boy.\u00a0 On the Legionnaires title, Jeffrey Moy is also impressive, although his characters are much softer and younger looking.\u00a0 His kids are all pretty cute, and his art reminds me a lot of Chris Sprouse\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, while I enjoyed these comics more than I remembered, I suspect that it\u2019s because the rest of this run, before Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning took over, got tired and old.\u00a0 I kept with the title, which says a lot, as this was the era where my comics purchasing was the smallest it ever was (the 90s were a rough time), aside from this quarantine era, but I\u2019m not sure how much of that was out of loyalty to the former incarnation of these characters.\u00a0 I guess we\u2019ll find out, because I\u2019m going to dive back into the rest of the McCraw\/Peyer\/Stern\/Moder\/Moy era in my next column.\u00a0 I do apologize for how long this one got&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;d like to see the archives of all of my retro review columns, click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2016\/07\/21\/retro-reviews-comic-book-archive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019d like to read any of the stories I talk about here, you can follow these links for trade paperbacks that encompass some of these issues.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B06XT8GWPV\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B06XT8GWPV&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thi026-20&amp;linkId=799f2da9a9e9b25c7dccadd82d7e9e56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legionnaires: Book One (Legionnaires (1993-2000))<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thi026-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B06XT8GWPV\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401273815\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1401273815&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thi026-20&amp;linkId=ae83eb166ad34e79cc3302e3e40d4530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legionnaires Book Two<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thi026-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1401273815\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOSH in the spotlight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":5379069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,23],"tags":[298,9866,130678,10145],"zone":[121886],"series":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LegionofSuper-Heroes-13.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/feed\/podcast\/inside-pulse","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SAWyyG3JoU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2020\/05\/08\/retro-review-legion-of-super-heroes-vol-4-0-62-80-legionnaires-0-19-36-by-mccraw-peyer-moder-moy-others-for-dc-comics-the-reboot\/\">Retro Review: Legion Of Super-Heroes (Vol. 4) #0, 62-80 &#038; Legionnaires #0, 19-36 by McCraw Peyer, Moder, Moy &#038; Others For DC Comics (The Reboot)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2020\/05\/08\/retro-review-legion-of-super-heroes-vol-4-0-62-80-legionnaires-0-19-36-by-mccraw-peyer-moder-moy-others-for-dc-comics-the-reboot\/embed\/#?secret=SAWyyG3JoU\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Retro Review: Legion Of Super-Heroes (Vol. 4) #0, 62-80 &#038; Legionnaires #0, 19-36 by McCraw Peyer, Moder, Moy &#038; Others For DC Comics (The Reboot)&#8221; &#8212; Inside Pulse\" data-secret=\"SAWyyG3JoU\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n<\/script>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201968"},{"taxonomy":"zone","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone?post=5201968"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5201968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}