So. Adventure Comics #0 was neat.
But Legion of Three Worlds #3 is the best thing ever, with the (not at all) surprising return of
Bart Allen, AKA Kid Flash.
I really liked what Johns is doing in Legion of 3 Worlds. Once again, he’s playing continuity cop, fixing plotlines left dangling from the #2 LSH reboot – e.g., Live Wire stuck in Element Lad’s body, their being lost in “the Void”. Too bad this is set earlier than the recent end of the #3 LSH reboot, or he could’ve tied up some of the dangling plotlines from that lackluster ending.
I also found it very interesting that, apparently, the collapse of the multiverse in Infinite Crisis seems to have happened simultaneously throughout time – since Brainy refers to the #2 LSH being from Earth-<whatever>, which was too high to be one of the 52. And, of course, now their Earth is gone, so it’ll be interesting to see where they end up.
Sodam’s nod to Kyle was very nice, but I’m dearly hoping that is not going to become the new GL oath, because… lame.
It can’t be before the end of LSH - Sun Boy is involved in that, and he’s killed here.
And everyone whose costume was altered is in their new one.
Jeckie’s presence (and Dreamy’s non-presence) here becomes fairly interesting, in this light, but, given the lack of downtime DURING the final arc for them to do this, and the above details, it really doesn’t fit anywhere but after the end of the series.
And yet, Cosmic Boy, Karate Kid, and (I think) Shadow Lass are in L3W, too – all of whom were gone by the end of the threeboot. Entirely possible, of course, that Sun Boy gets brought back somehow… but really, the timing for the threeboot’s participation is all a muddle.
Waid’s Cos isn’t there - only the orignal and post-ZH. He’s shown in the flashback to their first meeting (during XS’s origin) - which based on the costumes the pre-ZH version, and membership of post-ZH version, happened fairly early in their carreers - but that’s it.
Shadow Lass never leaves.
Val and Lu’s exit, honestly, always came across as a very strange error on Shooter’s part, or a change of plans on editorial’s - being Val and Lu suggests it’s tied into their presence in Countdown.
In any case, they didn’t die, just got whisked off to deal with a different threat than the one the Legion was dealing with.
Absent other clues, their presence is as much evidence for it happening after the end as before (as would Cos’s, had he been there) - it could be before they left, or after they returned - with the clues we have, ‘returned’ is the the only consistent answer.
And Jeckie’s presence isn’t really a puzzle since we didn’t see her leave the legion. She just messed with Imra’s and Tinya’s heads to make them forget her attack on Tinya. I don’t think Brainy ever found out she was behind the mental attack on Dreamgirl.
So far L3W is going very well and I prefer it to FC in general.
On a different note… Wolverine and Power Pack #4…
Fun story, cute dialogue. ‘What brings you here?’ ‘Ancient samurai curse. You?’ ‘Wacky Japanese gameshow.’
The end of the fight with the Hand, though made me :eek:.
They’ve magically suppressed Wolvie’s powers. He still pops his claws.
Ignoring the question of if he even could - whether the bones or muscular connections would disappear is a variable that seems to change every time someone depowers a mutant with gross physical changes like that - his healing factor’s gone, and he just snicked the claws through his hand. Were this not an all-ages book, I’d expect his claws to be getting progressively bloodier…even without slicing up the Hand.
Don’t read Marvel any more, but it has been pretty well established (in regular continuity, at least), that when Wolverine’s “powers” are suppressed, it is only his healing factor that goes away. He keeps the claws, and other mutants with physical mutations keep those changes. And, yes, they’re supposed to rip through his flesh coming out, so without the healing he should’ve bled… probably a bit much for a Power Pack book, though.
My impression of LSH #50 was that Shooter was so pissed at getting the rug pulled out from under him that he didn’t care whether he wrapped plot threads or not. If you noticed, he took his name off the writer credit of that one.
I thought he wasn’t on the writer credits because he didn’t actually write it? Comic Store Guy (who has been wrong before) said they’d brought in someone else to wrap everything up.
Seemed kind of odd, since Shooter had been making progress in the last few issues, after spinning his wheels for so long. If they’d extended the run for just a few more issues, he’d’ve probably had time to settle most of it. (and, since L3W has been so delayed, it wouldn’t’ve really affected Johns’ LSH relaunch)
I know DC didn’t boot Shooter, so he either quit, or wrote it under protest. In any case, I am relatively confident that the credited writer, “Justin Thyme”, does not exist.
He also should be suffering from adamantium poisoning, but I suppose it could be argued it would take a while for that to harm him enough to slow him down.
Jeez, if you have your 1986 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Deluxe Edition), you’d know perfectly well Logan has silicone inserts between his knuckles.
When he remembers to keep them in, admittedly.
Sadly dropped and/or forgotten in the early 90’s. I actually wrote a post on the evolution of the treatment of the claws and healing factor and how many times it has been changed but discarded it as being too disturbingly nerdy for a guy who doesn’t read anything with Wolverine in it.
While I know that at some points “adamantium poisoning” has been canon but I’m dubious on that. It’s already bonded to the calcium on the bones and I don’t think it should just flake off and enter his bloodstream. On the other hand not being able to produce red blood cells would kill him in a few days which I suppose amounts to the same thing.
I think you’re confusing him with Justin Case.
Yeah, I know it was dropped in the 90s. “Doesn’t that hurt?” “Yeah.” I was being overly comic geeky in a tongue in cheek way.
I assure you, I am not.
Yeah, Justins Thyme and Case are brothers from different mothers. They both mean “a bunch of people pitched in and cobbled this together.”