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very nice artwork....esp. ultra boy and Mon el panel reminds me of Crisis George Perez with Lightning Lass/Wildfire, IIRC.
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So, having read the whole issue, I'd say it continues the trend of good, but not great, Legion stories we've been having over the past few months. We get quite a bit of action of Legionnaires fighting dinosaurs, cave men, tanks, the Spanish Inquisition, etc. Basically, the whole point of the story is to establish that someone big and powerful wants Glorith dead, and thus lured her to Barcelona where, for some reason, her powers cause a time storm. Now, what big, bad villain noted for manipulating the time stream might possibly want Glorith dead?
Anyway, Glorith manages to avoid getting splorped.
Also, Cham invites Ayla and Vi to his room to discuss his suspicions that there's a reason that they are failing in their attempts to prevent the Fatal Five from assembling. And the Fatal Five is notably minus on member in the nice group shot we get of them (unless they're back to counting the Eye as a member).
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Beautiful art...Portela is great at futuristic backgrounds. I'm going to miss him.
Who wants Glorith dead, besides The Time Trapper, unless the Fatal Five is behind this too. It was nice to finally see Glorith in some kind of action sequence, even if it was basically her being rescued.
I didn't like the scene between Cham and Vi. I always figured they would interact with a little more....warmth. Oh well.
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I love the clearness and light of all of the panels.
Why would any experienced Legionnaire surmise that one of them would just disappear on their own? Especially, given recent events with Brainy and Dreamy being abducted? Call Blok and Mysa, for goodness sake!
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quote:Originally posted by Candlelight: Why would any experienced Legionnaire surmise that one of them would just disappear on their own? Especially, given recent events Brainy and Dreamy being abducted?
It is intriguing that it's Harmonia Li beating the 'nothing is wrong, go back to sleep!' drum.
It's fashionable to bash her for what happened to Titan, and for her horning her way onto the team like a hornless horning thing. And I'm certainly oh-so-fashionable, in that respect, but what if there's actually something sinister about her, and it's not just all us old fogeys resenting her for not being Nightwind?
What if she's messing with Brainy's head, somehow, and her fascination with time shenanigans isn't just leftover from her time at the Time Institute, and her presence whenever Brainy was testing the temporal nature of Glorith's magical shields wasn't just 'oh, and Harmonia hangs out in Brainy's lab for no darn reason.'
What if she refused a Green Lantern not because the Guardians are the 'least wise of the immortals,' but because if she let that ring make itself comfy on her finger, it might analyze her and discover something... alarming.
What if the name Glorith was chosen to make the character of Glorith a red herring, to distract us from Harmonia Li?
I would kind of love it if Paul had been planning something hinky from the very beginning, and was setting things in place to give us a shocking twist worthy of M. Night Shamalamadingdong.
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So, I'm a little puzzled that Glorith doesn't seem to be wearing her flight ring when abducted, but she has it in Barcelona.
Okay, no big deal. Artists forget to draw flight rings. But... can't they track her through it?
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Was Glorith using her flight ring to avoid the flames instead of her power an homage or a rip-off of when Dream Girl did the same thing many versions ago? This was back when it was being established that Dreamy's willpower was one of the strongest of all the legionnaires.
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I finished to read Legion 15. Fantastic art, good story. Who are the New Fatal Five? Validus seems to be the same.(With another origin maybe..) Is The Persuador with a new look or is another character with the atomic axe? The eye of Ekron has a new Empress with the same costume from the horrible annual. Is the poor girl from Orando or Sarya has returns in all her glory? The guy in blue....is Mano, Tharok or an all-new member? But I'm a little tired to only see The Legion of Brainaic 5, Mon-el, Ultra Boy and Cosmic Boy, with the New Kids.... And only one page of Ayla, Salu y Reep.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: So, I'm a little puzzled that Glorith doesn't seem to be wearing her flight ring when abducted, but she has it in Barcelona.
Okay, no big deal. Artists forget to draw flight rings. But... can't they track her through it?
It was established long ago that Flight Rings can turn invisible at the wearer's whim--Shady once claimed it was for members who may have cultural taboos against wearing jewelry.
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Did anybody notice that in the last two issues super-powered people have been referred to as "uniques"? I wonder if this might be a significant hint as to how the larger (and past) recently rebooted DC universe is going to evolve in the months to come? Not to make a mountain out of a mole-hill, but Levitz hasn't ever used this term before as far as I can recall.
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quote:Originally posted by Mediocre Boy: Did anybody notice that in the last two issues super-powered people have been referred to as "uniques"? I wonder if this might be a significant hint as to how the larger (and past) recently rebooted DC universe is going to evolve in the months to come? Not to make a mountain out of a mole-hill, but Levitz hasn't ever used this term before as far as I can recall.
It's definitely a new distinction, between the 'everyone in my race has power X' crowd (Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet, Triplicate Girl, Polar Boy, Brainy, more or less) and the 'the most wonderful thing about Tiggers, is I'm the only one!' folk (Bouncing Boy, Sun Boy, Invisible Kid, Colossal Boy, Princess Projectra, Lightning Lad, more or less).
Although, in many cases, people like Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy (and definitely Brainiac 5 and the new upgraded Duplicate Damsel) are already going pretty far past 'average member of my race' power levels...
Element Lad is another one who, technically has a 'everyone in my race' power, but is also unique, since 'he's the only one.'
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Art = lush! I look forward to Portela's art every month, it is so awesome to behold.
I still find Glorith to be a total MEH character and to date have seen nothing which indicates she should ever have been made a Legionnaire, but it's nice to see her actually involved in ANYTHING at all. If I'm going to accept her as a Legionnaire, she's going to have to start actually doing things. Despite the way they were introduced onto the team, the other new recruits have at least been going on missions and doing superhero-type things...
It's taken a while but I really feel like Paul Levitz has finally gotten his groove back! None of the past few issues have been amazing epics of superhero lore, but they have all been quite solid stories with the definite sense that there's a greater plan at work and he's not just throwing half-assed ideas out into the world.
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Yeah, as of this latest issue, I think that Mr. Levitz is finally getting his groove back, too. And just in the nick of time since his old partner, Mr. Giffen, is coming back into the fold.
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