"The Gold Lantern Saga" part two! Who is the Gold Lantern? And what does his power source have to do with the Great Darkness? Is the Gold Lantern everything it promises to be? The Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes team up and travel to each other's time periods to unravel the mysteries that have led them to the precipice of this Great Darkness.
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LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES FIVE YEARS LATER OMNIBUS VOL. 2
Picking up right after the first volume, this second omnibus edition shows an older, wiser Legion teaming up with their younger counterparts to protect what's left of humanity after the destruction of Earth. The stakes have never been higher as Zero Hour approaches. Collects Legion of Super-Heroes #40-61, Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #4-5, L.E.G.I.O.N. #69-70, Legionnaires #1-18, Legionnaires Annual #1, and Valor #20-23.
Written by MARY BIERBAUM, TOM BIERBAUM, TOM McCRAW, MARK WAID, and others Art by STUART IMMONEN, CHRIS SPROUSE, ADAM HUGHES, COLLEEN DORAN, and others Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE and KARL STORY $150.00 US | 1,328 pages | 7 1/16" x 10 7/8" | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-77951-557-5 ON SALE 4/12/22 4/26/22
I"m really looking forward to the upcoming Justice league vs The LSH! The art looks great. I hope they use this opportunity to really flesh out some of the Legionnaires that didn't get to shine during the recent Legion maxi series.
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(For real: when you read about what Indigenous women go through in North American societies, being negatively objectified and suffering terrible consequences for it, thanks to racism, sexism, and poverty, I've hoped in the back of my mind for years that they'd devise a new look for her.)
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The neat thing about the new Dawnstar is that she is very distinctly different from Hawkgirl, so there's no mistaking folks from Starhaven being from Thanager.
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While agree with Dawnstar needing an upgrade, I'm not really sold on the lack of "real" wings on the current version.
I'd probably have to plunk down cash for the comic to see some action scenes, before I decided.
There's always been a weird iconic tension between what we think of as futuristic aesthetics (streamlined, artificial in some way) vs. a woman with feathered wings: which I think still at some level suggest "wild, earthbound nature" to us.
I feel like if I depicted the character, I'd probably want her powers to include the ability to make her wings disappear altogether if she were resting indoors and on the ground: to only reappear at her command when she needed them.
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I think one of the neat things about the Legion is that you have a lot of characters/aspects that don't fit smoothly in the whole high-tech artificial futuristic aesthetic that is the "mainstream" for the 30th/31st centuries. I always thought it was kind of nice that Dawnstar came from a planet where the people had intentionally rejected much of that in favor of a more "natural" existence.
Of course, I'm not sure that even makes sense now, as, from what I understand the modern origin of Starhaven involves a native tribe being kidnapped by aliens rather leaving Earth of their own volition.
I'd definitely be open to her wings only appearing when in use, though. They always seem like they'd be super-uncomfortable in a lot of contexts.
Heavily agree on a lot of what you're saying here, EDE. The occasional anachronism that would pop up in the Legion, especially around magic or the occasional "D&D world" was fun, and felt missing in runs like DnA's where I think it was needed.
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