Legion Lost #7 - fish out of water

[perletwo]

Four pages from Legion Lost #7, just because they amused me.

To recap: Our team of intrepid Legionnaires - Gates, Chameleon Girl, Dawnstar, Wildfire, Tellus, Timber Wolf and team leader Tyroc - have chased another time traveler back to the 21st century (see LL #1-6) and become stranded by the strains the Flashpoint barrier creates for time travelers; over in the Legion's main title, the group believes the away team dead and has installed statues for them.

At this point their original mission is pretty much a wash, and this is a filler issue in which the team deals with the intricacies of daily life in the distant past - particularly when at least two of your team are distinctly non-hominid.






There's some discussion of the Mission Creep Problem, and Tellus randomly forms a mental bond with a woman trapped in a nightmare of pain; this, and what Tellus learns from it, forms the A plot, with which I shall not bother except to say that the art depicting the mindscape the two of them create together is lovely.

No, it's the B plot that tickled my fancy.



This is Osman Bin Iffadi aka Oz, petty street thief who watched Gates 'port the Legionnaires into a back alley back on the first page.

He takes T-Wolf to said gang-bank. "Do I understand you correctly? These muscle-heads sell illegal drugs and store their profits in that building?" "Straight up!" "Why haven't the authorities taken action?" "Maybe they're not as plugged in as the Oz-man." Oz asks T-Wolf what his plan is.

"Plan-?! You want a plan?" Smirk. "Team up with Batman!"

Instead Timber Wolf does What He Does Best (TM), breaking in and kayo'ing the gang in short order. (Well, a very nice 2-page spread, but six of one.)



"-life isn't always fair!"


T-Wolf's playing quick and dirty with the ethics there, but I kinda think it works in the end.
Next up, the stage is set for "The Culling," the big Legion Lost/Teen Titans/nU-Superboy crossover.

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

huh... this looks fun...

[glprime]

Chameleon Girl's a cutie. Also, what's up with Gates left half in the first hotel panel? Injury?

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah--when the book first started they thought him and Chameleon Girl were killed.

[perletwo]

Gates and Yera got separated from the team when their time sphere blew up and were - say it with me now - presumed dead. Actually the military got hold of them and played Mad Scientist until the end of ish #4 when Gates reappeared in this condition, and #5 when they staged a jailbreak to get Yera back.

#5's worth picking up for the sight of Gates kicking massive military ass, and J'onn J'onzz, little ray of sunshine that he always is, telling the team that time travel's a one-way trip and they're all going to die here. Yeah, you have a nice day too, J'onn.

[kamino_neko]

Gates' left side is freaky(...er) for the same reason Yera's shapeshifting hurts.

In the first couple issues, they were chasing a psycho who was planning to unleash a virus that can rewrite a being's genome, mixing in random bits of other species. Yera and Gates both got a dose of it when the Time Sphere was destroyed. That's when everyone else thought they died.

So, Gates isn't entirely Vyrgan any more. Yera...is probably entirely Durlan (they were able to fix her, presumably due to the Durlan nature), but suffering side effects.

[darkknightjrk]

This actually was a really good issue--which was kinda surprising since the only thing I read from Defalco was Spider-Girl which...I honestly wasn't a huge fan of.

[perletwo]

The kickoff arc for this title, with the time traveling terrorist and the hypertaxis virus, didn't exactly rock my socks. But this ish was bouncy fun, and these are all Legionnaires I've always been sneaky-fond of, so seeing them just hang out is great.

[bruinsfan]

Since when is Brin a redhead?

[perletwo]

...I'm seeing him more as a light brunette here, which tracks with how he's looked for a while now (difference in monitors? colorist weirdness? IDK). The objective answer, though, is "since the last redesign." Which would be, I guess, um, either the Action Comics arc where the Justice League of Earth took over the world or Legion of 3 Worlds?

[eyz]

liking the art here... might pick this up at some point!

[perletwo]

Yeah, the art is really pretty. Tellus and his psychic ladyfriend create this ocean mindscape where they're surfing on the backs of manta rays - I'd've posted some, but it's all these big splash pages, and they eat up posting limitations quick.

[cleome45]

I haven't checked in with this book since about 4-5 issues ago, and honestly the concept hasn't done anything to grab me. I don't buy Legion books to read about goings-on in the present-day DCU. There are already dozens of other books that I could read for that, if I felt like it.

If they had to be lost in time, at least they could've been lost in the distant past or a future even further away than their own "present." And on somewhere other than [yawn] Earth.

Which is too bad, because I love these characters. It's the setting that I don't give a flying rat's ass about.

Nice to see Yera as her proper bald self again, though.

[theatervine]

This looks really, really good.