Legion of Super-Heroes #19 - World's End

[perletwo]

Four pages from Legion #19, out today. Except for a brief check-in with the crash-landed team, almost the entire issue is Mon-El going toe-to-toe with the Emerald Empress on Weber's World.





Using this page strictly for a good look at the new Empress' design; she appears to be taking fashion tips from Marvel's Hela. For an even better look at the redesign, check out the - whatchamacallit, double-fold? - the bigass cover image here in the issue preview at Comic Book Resources. Warning: there's a fairly graphic drawing of Mon-El being injured on that cover, gorier than any in the interior art.

Anyhoo. Emerald Empress is ravaging Weber's World, the UP's entirely manmade administration planet. A large team of Legionnaires was already en route last issue, figuring WW was more vulnerable to the technopocalypse than all the other worlds combined.



They take it to the black, and Empress has Mon-El on the ropes, but what she thinks is a killing blow is blocked by Brainiac 5 and the Legion refugees from Earth in their makeshift transpo; Brainy transferred the force shield holding the ship together to Mon just long enough to deflect the Eye-beam.



They can't get the shield over to Mon in time to block that one and well, it's bad. Not fatal - this is Mon-El, after all - but bad. Bad enough for the Legionnaires to encase the Empress in a quick inertron shell, haul Mon into the ship and hope like hell they can patch him back together.

As I say, we have a brief interlude checking in on Phantom Girl and her crashed team on the Promethean Giant, which as we saw last issue is trying to scratch them off. Not much new comes out of that, except that PG decides she really kinda sucks as Legion leader. We also check in briefly with Fatal Five leader Tharok, who sends Persuader to Earth for...something. Still clocking in as the Fatal Four as of this issue, no word on the fifth.

On the last page, we check in briefly with our third team. You'll recall that Glorith used a spell to transport herself, Ultra Boy and Chameleon Boy from Rimbor to the Sorceror's World.



....oops?

Mods, there's no tag yet for the second artist on this ish, Jeff Johnson, can we get one or are we totally maxed out now? He did about half the ish (as you see from the credits on the first posted page) and I hate to just ignore him.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Hela meets Karnilla in style, and overuse of the whole "Eye am what Eye am" verbal tic gimmick IMHO....

[perletwo]

Yeah, I looked at Karnilla when I was drafting this post, Hela has more green but K has the hair thing going on. At one point Hela was rocking the cleavage corset thing, too. What do we in the s_d hivemind think of the color inversion on the Eye itself? I go back and forth on liking/not liking it.

verbal tic: and that's just on the pages I posted. Like I say, pretty much the whole issue save about three pages is more of the same.

[darkknightjrk]

Very much a middle issue, and those "holy shit did they just kill that character" moments are getting a LOT more ambigious--there's no way in hell that they're killing off ALL of the Phantom Girl team, for example.

I do like the little nod to Keith Giffen in the credits, though. Gives me hope that the reasons for him leaving the first issue were a lot less dramatic than we feared. Maybe he was just under a time jam and had to sacrifice something?

[perletwo]

Possible - the fact that Kolins only drew half the issue would certainly suggest a time crunch happening.

[superfangirl1]

Levitz and Giffen really have it in for poor Mon-El. That's what, the fourth or fifth time they let the poor guy really have it? And he had such a nice pretty new costume.

[cainofdreaming]

My pelvis hurts just looking at that first page.

[perletwo]

Hey now, she's got the Green Goblin thing goin' on with the eye-glider there. Would it still hurt if it was Norman Osborn in that pose?

[superfangirl1]

You know I was thinking it must be hard to balance oneself on a magical flying eye ball. But she makes it looks so easy and painful at the same time.

[perletwo]

Aww, c'mon, don't hate her 'cause she's flexible!

You know, we still haven't identified the current holder of the Eye of Ekron. Maybe she's a descendent of Plastic Man. (if there is still a Plastic Man in the nU)

[silverhammerman]

Oh god, I kind of hope there isn't a Plastic Man in the new DC, I dread what they'd do with him. The criminal backstory and lighthearted goofiness would not fair well these days.

[cainofdreaming]

Osborn? Most likely twice as hard then. Most things Osborn do, nowadays.

It's just that there's something wrong in the way the legs connect to her pelvis. Just... looks painful.

[perletwo]

No, you're right, the fact that we can see her butt cheeks suggest she's got scorpion tail spine.

[crinos]

Oh wow, I don't know where to start: The mass of hair that could give Titans era Starfire a run for her money, or the fact she's riding her eye like she was the flippin Green Goblin.

[cainofdreaming]

Looks like her hair and the headpiece/hairband also double for an eye symbol. At least looking at that two-page fold linked below the first scan. Justifies the size a bit.

[alan_smithee]

Is she..is she riding a giant penis in that first panel? Yes I know it's meant to be smoke but...

[long_silence]

Heh. One eyed monster

[big_daddy_d]

Can someone tell me what William Dafoe's Green Goblin's daughter is doing in the DCU?

[thanekos]

Eye-eye-eye.

[wizardru]

Well, someone has been re-reading their Kirby run on Thor, I guess. You could do worse to crib from the King.