Legion Lost #11 - Echo-o-o-o-o-o....

[perletwo]

New issue of Legion Lost out today; I bring you a whopping 1 page, which introduces an...interesting...new concept.

Previously on LOST: The Losties escaped The Culling with their dignity mostly intact *and* a new time bubble. The bubble had some presets they couldn't work around, though, and took them to Harvest's version of the future: a burned-out dystopia where the Legion HQ was in ruins. The Losties raided HQ for supplies and fresh duds and tried to go back a couple of years, only to wind up back where they started in the 21st century.

Meanwhile, Steve Trevor ordered the commander of that metahuman research facility that captured Gates and Yera to take down the Losties with prejudice. She squeezed their friend Oz into luring them into a trap, put Oz double-crossed her with a quick warning. Nonetheless, Timber Wolf ended up getting shot.



This issue: Oz leads most of the Losties to the Orchid Clinic to fix up T-Wolf, where they make a new friend in the clinic's proprietor Dr. Shaleeka Mosley, while Yera and Tyroc cover their retreat. Wildfire flies around being emo about his damaged containment suit, and gins up an imaginary attraction between Dawnstar and T-Wolf to give him an excuse to push her away. Alastor, the bad guy they were chasing waaay back in issue #1, reappears.

And while T-Wolf is putting his Loganesque super-healing to good use, he remembers something through the haze of painkillers that is probably Germane To The Plot.



...okaaaay.

It's a concept, I guess. Harvest made some crack to Yera about "her masters at Echo," so presumably she's the case worker in question.


What do we think about this as a social service plan, guys? And is it too soon to start placing bets on which DCnU denizens might be Echo placements?

Comments

[long_silence]

And is it too soon to start placing bets on which DCnU denizens might be Echo placements?

Well it would be an interesting origin for Bart

[darkknightjrk]

That makes sense--the Legionnaires and that cop from the future both knew him as a criminal, and Bart is now in the present without a whole lot of memory...it makes perfect sense.

[darkknightjrk]

Hmm...now that I think about it...have we actually SEEN the events that brought these people to present day? What if they bungled their assignment so badly that their memories were wiped and brought to the present day, and it just so happens that their original objective came in at the same time?

[eyz]

Hum...huh... the New 52 did it? :P

[perletwo]

We have NOT seen what brought them back here. Page 1 of #1 had them coming in hot to the 21st century in the time bubble, with Alastor in the lead and already in this era, and coping with the rough ride. Nor have the mission specs really been referenced at all in the main Legion title, just the aftermath in which they were Lost (cue spooky sound effect). So it is possible.

[razsolo]

Well, this is...definitely an INTERESTING idea!

I am on the fence as to whether I like it or not. On one hand it's very creative and a new take on the 'displaced time-traveller' thing. On the other hand, sending someone into a more primitive time to protect them seems a bit counter-intuitive? Especially given how generally safe and orderly the Legion's time is compared to ours. I may need to have a think about it some more...

On another note, was there any lead-up to how this was presented, or did Brin literally just wake up and say "hey, here's our next plot point!" It just seems like a weird thing to bring up out of nowhere..?

[perletwo]

I agree there would seem to be major logistical issues with this approach. What if they die in the past? What if the case worker loses them?

No, there was a page prior to this of Brin hallucinating/flashbacking while under the painkillers, to dropping off a super-prisoner to the SPs and being told said prisoner had rolled on a bigger criminal and earned himself a ticket to Echo. It was vague enough dialogue I didn't feel it was worth posting; this page is more on point.

[razsolo]

Ah cool cool, thanks for the extra info :)

[silicondream]

Isn't this a perfect recipe for horrible time paradoxes and stuff? The Legion usually takes every care possible to avoid messing up history, and in some previous continuities, Earthgov and the UP strictly regulate time travel for the same reason. Dumping a bunch of amnesiacs in the past--some of them criminals, some of them super-powered, some of them aliens--sounds like temporal suicide.

Personally, if I was going to protect witnesses via time travel, I'd stash them in the future. If they're from 3012, then hand them over to the Science Police of 3062, when the people they're testifying against are already dead or in prison.

And wait...if you've got time travel, why do you need to shelter your witnesses at all? Just send them forward in time to the actual moment of the trial!

[jlbarnett]

presumably said people would have the skills to survive more primitive eras

[kd_the_movie]

I kind of feel like it was a wasted opportunity to have a malfunctioning time bubble and not expand on the historical mythos of the DcNu. Could've done a time travel tour arc and have the Losties fuck around with the Demon Knights or a past iteration of the Shade or whoever.