Legion Lost #14 and #15 - can't tell the players without a scorecard -

[perletwo]

- especially if, like me, you haven't been reading other DCnU titles like Ravagers or Superboy. Four pages each from LL #14 and #15, out this week. I didn't post any of last month's ish at the time because I couldn't figure out where to even begin summarizing this hot mess. Oh, multi-team context-free melee issues, how I haven't missed you in this title! But oh yes, IT IS ON.


When last we left our Losties, they picked up the homing signal of a Time Bubble and sped to Arizona, thinking they were saved. But out stepped Science Police captain (and secret Echo spymaster) Nathaniel Adym, who told them they had to stop a breakpoint in the time stream from forming and wiping out their entire timeline's existence. This would be Cosmic Butcher Daggor and his pet dragon, who've already fought Wildfire once, and raises an android army from out of nowhere to protect his world-borer. So Adym stealthily calls in reinforcements.



I assume from later pages that this is supposed to be a Dramatic Reveal...? And yes, that is Harvest, the Big Bad of the Culling hot mess storyline and his Tragically 1990s team of minions. They appear in Arizona and offer a temporary allegiance to the Losties and Adym against Daggor.



Lure goes and drags Superboy into the fray, with the Ravagers (or just some of them, I dunno?) hot on their heels.



That bit of Kryptonian (anyone got a Rosetta Stone on 'em?) turns Kon into an Unstoppable Homicidal Kryptonian Zombie who spends the next issue and a half yelling "KILL! MAIM! DESTROY!" and lashing out wildly at everyone on the battlefield.



Which takes us up to #15, where Wildfire takes to space to confront Daggor directly, with Psykill providing backup.



And so saying, he blows the sprock out of Wildfire's containment suit in a lovely bright gold two-page spread, complete with inset reaction shots of his teammates, which I do not have room enough in a new-issue post to give you here.



This also fulfills part of the historical treasure hunt Adym shared with secret Echo agent Yera in the flashbacks in #13.





Tyroc refuses to be party to Adym's hail-mary pass. Adym orders Lure and Yera to back him up, incidentally outing them as secret Echo agents in the process, and they both respectfully tell him to get stuffed.

Unfortunately, Harvest thinks it's a dandy plan, and knocks them all out so he can throw the hail mary himself. "WE will happily sacrifice MILLIONS to save untold QUINTILLIONS. - How's that for a game changer?"


Next issue: Please Join Our Lost Legionnaires For Their .... LAST STAND!

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

I didn't have a problem with #14 because I have been following The Ravagers (ironically enough, I got more interested in reading more of the classic Wildstorm stuff around the same time I was getting more interested in the LSH). That said, I do think having an issue of your book be mostly about another team--especially when the book is only a few issues away from ending.

#15, though, had a better balance. Really liked it. The art is GORGEOUS. That said--is all the Kirby Krackle around Dawny when she's holding Wildfire's mask indicating that Drake is melding himself onto her? I wonder if maybe the anti-matter energy of Drake will merge into her, and she becomes a hybrid of the two. That would be a weird, but oddly romantic way to solve that problem.

[perletwo]

Yep, Andres Guinaldo subbing for Woods has got some game.

I don't know about merging - though it would be an elegant solution, wouldn't it? and one Levitz could have no end of fun with in LoSH! - but I interpret the Kirby Krackle as being Drake for sure, that we're seeing what Tellus "sees" telepathically. Out-of-suit Wildfire has always been drawn as a blob of Kirbyesque energy, invisible to the naked eye, but I know of no reason he couldn't at least drape himself over a person.

Though really, I don't know why the Losties' new "ally" Harvest couldn't simply give him a third containment suit, or his old one back. Maybe this is part of the point of changing out their costumes in the first place.

[darkknightjrk]

Oh, lots of fun could be had with a merged Dawnfire.

"I'm so sorry to hear about Drake--I know you two were close, and you never could...you know...go..."
"We went pretty far before, thank you very much." *holds out hands*

As for Harvest having another suit...I don't know, I think that if they are going to fix it that easily in the next issue, then they wouldn't do the suit breaking at all. Besides, I thought Drake was already on a third suit from the bad future they ended up on?

[perletwo]

Heheheh. I was thinking of the inside-the-head arguments they'd have while they were working. and now I think I need to go see if netflix has an old Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin movie called All Of Me in its library...

Let's see - he started out with the original red/gold suit he came from The Future with. Harvest switched it out for the white one. That one got damaged during The Culling. In the Harvest!Future, he looked for either a new suit or one he could scavenge parts from, but didn't find anything useful. So he's still in his damaged Culling suit, except that it's now toast.

What I don't understand is, can containing his anti-energy really be all that complicated? I've always assumed the tricky part was making something that would let him move and talk and feel relatively human. But couldn't they just, like, make him a tin can out of unobtainium or whatever's the appropriate material until they get home?

[darkknightjrk]

See, I was thinking that if they merged, it would be as one personality and combined power-sets. Like, this new person would have Dawnstar's cool-head with Wildfire's hot to create a more balanced individual, who would have Dawnstar's flight and tracking abilities mixed with his energy blasts.

Thanks for clarifying the suit thing--I thought they found SOMETHING of use during that bad future, but it's been a while since I read it.

As for storing him...you know, Pre-Flashpoint, where you had someone like the Negative Man from the Doom Patrol around, I would say yeah, the present super-science would have something like that. But, in the New 52, maybe not?

[pallas_athena]

Vril Dox's creation/sidekick Wildstar from R.E.B.E.L.S. was almost exactly that.

[icon_uk]

Seriously? Dawnstar is all "he must be dead" because a containment suit is wrecked? That happens to him at least twice a year and she KNOWS that.

[perletwo]

Well, yeah, but remember they're trapped in Caveman Country without a backup suit or any way to repair the old ones. Drake has brooded over the likelihood of his uncontained anti-energy just slowly dissipating throughout the ether in past issues. Not being just a pretty rack face as she's sometimes accused of, Dawny's probably given that some thought too, though we readers haven't been privy to it.

{{wee thread derail - think it's too soon to start using my Christmas comics icons? Is there netiquette on this sort of thing?}}

[icon_uk]

No netiquette that I can think of. Generally though, we're into December, the season of Advent in the Christian calendar (I only mention that because you mention Christmas specifically) so I'd say that Christmas icons are fine (I hope so, as you can see I broke mine out a couple of weeks back)