Under the Surface

[arbre_rieur]

Aqualad introduces his teammates to Atlantis, in YOUNG JUSTICE 14...

September 5, 19:12 EDT

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[lieut_kettch]

Large and beautiful gills, indeed, Kaldur.

[shadowpsykie]

... Looker?

[pyrotwilight]

Nope, Firebrand who in the show also became Red Inferno. (This seems set before she was turned into Red Inferno which threw me for a loop when reading it)

[arbre_rieur]

Due to its monthly schedule, the comic is pretty far behind the show, timeline-wise. The timestamps place this issue right after the episode where everyone got amnesia (which explains why the others are concerned for Aqualad's well-being at the beginning of the comic, as he got severely dehydrated that episode).

[pyrotwilight]

Yeah, I know and don't know. It always manages to surprise me when I read it and remember where it is in the timeline.

[lascoden]

Heh, for some reason I really like the idea that characters with more malleable bodies like M'Gann's shrink under greater pressures.

[cypherfdp]

"I was programmed by psychic gnomes to speak fish people language."

[icon_uk]

"I have no idea what that means"

Welcome to comics Sha'lain'a

[darkknightjrk]

...Okay, what's going on with the graveyard? Who is that in the coffin? It's so weird when this show makes a DCU reference even I can't figure out.

[pyrotwilight]

T.O. Morrow is digging out the body of Firebrand. In this universe T.O. built Firebrand (T.O. is old and that's an android of himself) who in a Tomorrow Woman like story built Firebrand to infiltrate the Justice Society and defeat them from within, but she proved too good for her own good and took a bullet meant for another JSA'er "killing" her. T.O.'s now digging up the body which being an android is unaged. In the show T.O. later re-purposed her into Red Inferno (this seems set before that)

In the original comics Firebrand was a minor character, a member of the All-Star Squadron.

I don't know Mr. Lockhart though.

[darkknightjrk]

Oh, right! I forgot all about Firebrand.

[sadoeuphemist]

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/James_Lockhart_%28Earth-X%29

Ok well that makes sense.

[pyrotwilight]

Ahhhhh Red Torpedo. Hah. Huh. So T.O. built an android that ages (James). Damn.

[icon_uk]

It is impressive (and slightly unsettling, but in a good way) when it outgeeks you isn't it?

[darkknightjrk]

Exactly!

[silverzeo]

I like the part where Conner like Megan with gills... mostly because that how Superboy was trying to be like Kirk or Riker...

[bariman]

Hey, I just realized, Superboy is wearing Kaldur's clothes, sans backpack and belt buckle. That's actually kind of funny.

So Red Torpedo lived to a ripe old age, but then got his skin torn off and replaced with armor by Morrow? Yeah, that makes that episode even more unsettling.