Superboy / Connor, gets the entire issue to himself this time. 30 pages of art with him and Cassie slugging it out. In Blackest Night, Nekron recently assigned Black Lantern rings to the 'heroes' that he had spared by allowing them to come back again. Obviously, that included Connor. This issue picks up shortly after that as he and Cassie are fighting. Cassie's trying to get Connor to assert himself. After the time when Luthor used his 'trigger-word' to control Connor, he and Cassie went all over the globe to try and teach him how to resist any future mind control. He uses that training to slip a couple of things past the Black Lantern ring. First he slips out a whistle. A whistle that no one can hear, but Krypto. Who soon rushes to his aid. And then he uses his heat vision to send Cassie a message. He carves 'Fortress' into the ground. His plan? His original dead body is there in the Kryptonian chamber. If he can get close enough to it, while wearing the ring, maybe he can confuse it. Then he uses the tricks that Raven taught him to make his mind 'slippery'.
With the ring already confused, it chooses the path of least resistance and goes after the corpse. But, the tricky part is . . Connor also has to keep the ring away from the corpse once it's off of him. This is the previous version of him . . his past self, if you will. But . . it's still him. So he if rings makes contact and Connor or Cassie has to destroy it to stop it . . they'd effectively be destroying Connor. His future self may no longer exist. Anyways, long story short . . I know, too late . . Connor freezes the ring, with his newly discovered 'freeze-breath', and Cassie casts it off into space. Obviously there's only a matter of time before the ring breaks out and comes back for it's target. But . . in the meantime, Connor and Cassie and Krypto are all heading towards Coast City to do anything they can to help the rest of the heroes beat this thing. Tony Bedard has taken over on the writing chores of this book. Bye-bye, Geoff Johns! But I thought Tony did a pretty good job. I really enjoyed all the dialogue and interaction between Connor and Cassie. And I liked that Connor used his head to get out of this. The boy is growing up. Plus I think Cassie is a good influence on him. Travis Moore does the art. The Legion returns next issue. Unfortunately . . so does Brainiac. I love this book, and I'm glad it's back. I don't really care how they number it.
Superboy / Connor, gets the entire issue to himself this time. 30 pages of art with him and Cassie slugging it out. In Blackest Night, Nekron recently assigned Black Lantern rings to the 'heroes' that he had spared by allowing them to come back again. Obviously, that included Connor. This issue picks up shortly after that as he and Cassie are fighting. Cassie's trying to get Connor to assert himself. After the time when Luthor used his 'trigger-word' to control Connor, he and Cassie went all over the globe to try and teach him how to resist any future mind control. He uses that training to slip a couple of things past the Black Lantern ring. First he slips out a whistle. A whistle that no one can hear, but Krypto. Who soon rushes to his aid. And then he uses his heat vision to send Cassie a message. He carves 'Fortress' into the ground. His plan? His original dead body is there in the Kryptonian chamber. If he can get close enough to it, while wearing the ring, maybe he can confuse it. Then he uses the tricks that Raven taught him to make his mind 'slippery'. 
With the ring already confused, it chooses the path of least resistance and goes after the corpse. But, the tricky part is . . Connor also has to keep the ring away from the corpse once it's off of him. This is the previous version of him . . his past self, if you will. But . . it's still him. So he if rings makes contact and Connor or Cassie has to destroy it to stop it . . they'd effectively be destroying Connor. His future self may no longer exist. Anyways, long story short . . I know, too late . . Connor freezes the ring, with his newly discovered 'freeze-breath', and Cassie casts it off into space. Obviously there's only a matter of time before the ring breaks out and comes back for it's target. But . . in the meantime, Connor and Cassie and Krypto are all heading towards Coast City to do anything they can to help the rest of the heroes beat this thing. Tony Bedard has taken over on the writing chores of this book. Bye-bye, Geoff Johns! But I thought Tony did a pretty good job. I really enjoyed all the dialogue and interaction between Connor and Cassie. And I liked that Connor used his head to get out of this. The boy is growing up. Plus I think Cassie is a good influence on him. Travis Moore does the art. The Legion returns next issue. Unfortunately . . so does Brainiac. I love this book, and I'm glad it's back. I don't really care how they number it.
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