Sunday, September 10, 2006

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #21 - DC


Ok, 21 issues later and Waid and Kitson are still around. But they seem to be less involved with each passing issue. Oh well, easy come, easy go. Anyways, good issue overall. Tony Bedard is helping with the scripts now, and Adam Dekraker is doing the pencils. It says that Barry is still doing the layouts, but what is that really? So I'm going to give props to Adam. The book has a good feel to it, script and pencil wise. In usual Legion fashion, we're dealing with multiple storylines at any one time. Colossal Boy is guarding the juvenile delinquents from his home planet the caused a ruckus. Really he's trying to figure out who hired them. As he's watching over them, some metas disquised as Science Police, come in and break them out. CB takes quite a beating. Meanwhile we still have Brainiac trying to download all the memories from Dream Girls body, so that he can bring her back to life. He's using a fallen foe that he's also keeping on ice, not literally, Lemnos. Light Lass, Element Lad and Shrinking Violet are all there too. They're on a spaceship because his lab was compromised last issue. Next we have Triplicate Girl, Projectra and Phantom Girl all trying to have an intervention with Supergirl, because she is convinced that none of this is real. She hasn't accepted the fact that she jumped forward in time. She thinks she's dreaming the whole thing. She won't even accept the destruction of Krypton. She thinks she's sleeping in her own bed back in Argo city. We also learn that Brainiac's force field also protects him from any of the Legions powers. He says one of the first precautions he took when he joined thier club, was to make himself immune to all thier powers. A little paranoid? Is he related to Bruce Wayne? Anyways, kind of ironically, he does bring Dream Girl back, but, he is the only one that can see or hear her. Is he being haunted? Did he finally get a crack in his 12th level brain? But this is what I love about this book. There are so many characters, that there has to be multiple stoylines going on. Occasionally they all intersect, but that's usually rare and far between. This book always keeps me coming back for more.

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