Saturday, November 08, 2008

Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #2 - DC


I know that this mini-series is all part of the Final Crisis epic, but . . I'm thinking that this one stands on it's own. Well . . almost. Basically what's happening here is that the Time-Trapper is making another bid to rid the Universe of the Legion. He's tried it from many various angles, but . . it's never really stuck. He makes head-way, he'll get some progress, but then something happens and they all come back together again. Maybe not the same as before, but . . they're still them. So this time he's going to let someone else do the work for him . . Superboy-prime. So far Superboy-prime has gathered the Legion of Super-villains, several major 'baddies' from the 31st century, and now . . this issue . . Mordru. After killing Rond Vidar, the Legion's own Green Lantern, the whole group is headed towards Earth and the Legion. But, Brainy has a plan. With his familiarity with time-travel, and multiple universes he's decided to bring all the Legionnaires together from 2 other universes. He's got a couple of other things in the works also. He's sending Polar Boy, Dawnstar and Wildfire back to the 21st century for some reason. I think this is where the connection with the Final Crisis is going to come in. Although, I can't say I know what's going to happen yet. And, Mon-el and Shadow Lass have taken Rond's body back to OA. There they're going to attempt to make contact with the true last Green Lantern . . Ion . . Sodam Yat. First of all, whomever thought up teaming Geoff Johns and George Perez together is a genius. Seriously! They should be given a medal or something. Scott Koblish does the inks for George on this series, and the work looks amazing. There are some fantastic pages in this issue. The first is the double-page spread of all the villains, being led by Superboy-prime. Then, later on in the issue, there's another double-pager of all the Legionnaires, from all 3 worlds, together for the first time. This page is especially amazing because of the triad of characters and their various looks and uniforms. I'm amazed the George could accomplish all of this. I'm still questioning how all of this is going to affect the current Legion book, but . . I guess it'll all work out in the end. For now I'm just going to enjoy this amazing story. Geoff has really put together and incredibly intricate and detailed journey here.

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