Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion in 52! (SPOILERS)

For anyone *not* picking up 52, there was a *major* Legion connection (decades in the making!) in the most recent issue!

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">We meet Ekron, as in the Emerald Eye of..., in #20!</span></span>

I could buy something like this, except that I see no reason to assume that R.J. Brande is a character in this reality.

My idea is that a bunch of Legionnaires, including the founding three but maybe some others as well (I'm thinking Phantom Girl), were inmates of this prison, because of their youthful incorrigibility and stuff. And Rokk, Garth and Imra became friends, and got to talking about how messed up society is and what they could do about it. We know Rokk is a big fan of old comic books, and Tinya (if she was there) is a history buff herself. At some point someone brings up the idea of becoming superheroes.

Then there was a prison riot in which some of the really dangerous inmates were getting wildly out of hand. Rokk, Garth and Imra decide that it's now or never, form the Legion on the fly and recruit a bunch of other good-hearted rebellious-youth-type inmates to help put the riot down. I could see Ultra Boy being part of this group.

They do so in such a way that makes the building kind of useless as a prison from then on, and when the smoke clears the Legion is in control of the place, and the guards and SPs are all on the outside looking in, surrounding them with their space bullhorns and future SWAT teams and stuff. Obviously the Legion doesn't want to fight its way out through that, so they use their political connections, like Imra's mom, to negotiate continued possession of the prison for a whole new use, plus probation for all Legionnaires for whatever minor trumped-up charges landed them in the pokey in the first place, in return for all their help in quelling the riot.

Does that work for anybody?

I think I read that it says "Emerald HEAD of Ekron", correct? Isn't Ekron a planet?

Says who?

I've always thought we'd see an untold tale of the Green Lantern Corps or the Manhunters in which they are forced to battle the rogue Guardian of the Universe, Ekron. In order to fight an army at once, he uses his power to grow to 50 feet or so and loses an eye in the process.

He's either killed or imprisoned on OA, with his eye out in space somewhere wandering around looking for trouble.

Anyway, that was my little origin of the Emerald Eye.

Hmmm I thought that the origin of the Emerald Eye would do with Nekron, the undead in the space whom Captain Atom fought and I believe Green Lantern did. as you can see, take "N" away from Nekron and you get Ekron....he was missing one of his eye...hmm. I remember seeing him in hmmm Green Lantern Corps Tales? can't remember

The Emerald Head of Ekron looks interesting. No body though. Is it possible someone's taken Ekron's head and his reamaining eye and fashioned a ship from it? The mix of tech and organics makes me wonder (and the lack of body too...).

The Head of Ekron was looking pretty deomposed there. Wonder how it got separated from his body?

Heh...you should go to Comic Bloc and there is a thread devoted to that one...as a joke. But funny thread it is!

Haven't read this yet, but it started me thinking again about something that has bothered me. "52" has been hugely successful, perhaps more so than Infinite Crisis and the Countdown stuff.

If Legion is supposed to tie-in to "52," isn't it a no-brainer to, you know, ADVERTISE that fact? Something else else like "Bursting from the Pages of the Smash Hit 52" on a Legion cover might be a good start, or "read more about it in the next issue of S/LSH" in 52 would be nice, too. Just saying.

Let's see... an artifact of great power, shaped in the form of an eye, torn from an undead entity. If the Empress is wielding that Eye, will they retcon in that Mano isn't a mutant, but instead the wielder of the Hand of Ekron?

This isn't a slam against your theory, superboymddjr. Just that I'd played AD&D on and off since around 1982, so saw the parallel.

Is that you, Vecna?

From Newsarama's weekly Q&A with Steve Wacker.

Hmmm....one of stars of 52? Booster Gold? Seems like a very logical thing to me since Booster Gold has a small connection to the Legion - his legion flight ring. I cannot think of any connections among those 52 stars - Steel? Ralph? Renee? Question? Black Adam? - to Legion, so Booster Gold has to be it. Now, I am curious.....aside from Emerald Eye.

Is Skeets a star? I'm convinced he's behind the whole robot uprising.

is mon-el showing up in 52?

And the Emerald Ass of Ekron is still out there...

Where's Kid Therod when you need him?

How about if Rip Hunter shows up in SLOSH?

ETA: possibly visiting his descendant Dav...?

Funny, I always thought of the Eye as female.

I agree Ekron appears to be some sort of ship. If you look at the top dome of it's head, you can definitely make out a humanoid figure in there. At least I can.

Quislet? Brainiac? The last surviving Oan? The unholy bastard love-child of all three?