Legion Worlds 1

Legion Worlds #1 (story 1) Reboot » Post-Zero Hour Cover, by John Cassaday Story title You are here: Earth Previous story Legion Lost #12: First & Last Next story Story 2: The Earth Spins Cover date June 2001 Creators Writer(s) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning Penciller(s) Yvel Guichet Inker(s) Dexter Vines Letterer(s) Comicraft Colourist(s) Tom McCraw Digital Chameleon (seperations) Editor(s) Mike McAvennie Cover artist(s) John Cassaday

You are here: Earth

Set "a year to the day" after Legion of Super-Heroes v4 125.

M'Onel fights an upgraded Tharok in rapid decent towards Earth's surface. When he finally stops him in Metropolis, a small drone detaches and rockets away, but he stops it with a shot of freeze-breath, and Science Police arrive to contain Tharok.

Following a report on the fight, The Earth Spins interviews President Leonard McCauley, who promises to make repairs, points out the rebuilding work on Earth since the Blight, and says that he has no regrets on disbanding the Legion "with honours" after the events of Widening Rifts. In response to a question on M'Onel, he says M'On is like a son to him.

M'Onel, watching, thinks how he hates it when McCauley lies. Shvaughn Erin then calls him to ask for help in the investigation into the "Tharok incursion", but a chance encounter with Kinetix once there depresses him over how lonely he feels. Shvaughn tells him he still has friends, one of whom is right in front of him, and to come and help like he promised.

What is causing problems is the now-defrosted drone, which M'Onel theorises Tharok was just a delivery vehicle for, on behalf of whoever upgraded him. It then infects the system, and then a Science Police officer, who starts babbling about "Robotica". M'Onel gets Shvaughn to purge the system at all costs, and then destroys the drone with his heat vision. The infected officer then drops dead.

M'Onel then goes to confront McCauley over the apparent downplaying of the Robotican menace. McCauley brushes him off, but his henchman Venge tells him M'Onel was right to be concerned. M'Onel then leaves to visit Legion Memorial Plaza for the anniversary of the loss of half the Legion in the Rift. There, he meets Triad, who had been running Brande Industries for the previous year.

After hugging, Triad starts telling M'Onel that she wants to talk to him about "the things that really matter." He feigns ignorance of what she means, and quickly flies off in response to an alert.

The alert turns out to be a Robotican advance scout. While fighting it, M'Onel thinks about his history as Valor, and whether Luornu was right to implicitly suggest revealing himself as the planet-seeder. He finally destroys it, and upon telling the controller to send the U.P. navy to contain the debris, he is informed of another deep-space incursion.

Thinking it's the prelude to a full-scale invasion, he is shocked and delighted when he sees the Legion Outpost come through a hole in space.

Legion Worlds #1 (story 2) Reboot » Post-Zero Hour The Earth Spins, by Oliver Coipel Story title You are here: Earth Previous story Story 1: You are here: Earth Next story Legion Worlds #2: You are here: Winath Creators Writer(s) Dan Abnett Penciller(s) Oliver Coipel Inker(s) Andy Lanning Letterer(s) Comicraft Colourist(s) Tom McCraw Digital Chameleon (seperations) Editor(s) Mike McAvennie

The Earth Spins

After leaving M'Onel, Triad returns to her apartment, where she watches the news, including profiles of Tharok, M'Onel and the Legion, but when they reach the Rift Disaster and McCauley's eulogy of the Legion starts, they start link-hopping, going through two pro-McCauley pieces, a piece on the Robotican threat and an apparent pandemic on Vyrga before giving up and switching to music.

With the three of her angry, tired and depressed respectively, Triad-Purple launches on a rant about McCauley, before Neutral stops her with a reminder that "The walls have ears." Purple retorts that McCauley knows how they feel about him and heads off to get ready for bed. Neutral spends a moment comforting Orange before following with a reminder to Orange that "I need our sleep". After Neutral has gone, the computer flags up an item that Luornu may find interesting - Orange plays it, and instantly yells for her sisters to come, screaming "THEY'RE BACK!" as the news reports that it appears that the Lost Legionnaires have returned.

Solicitation

LEGION WORLDS #1

Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art by Yvel Guichet and Dexter Vines; cover by John Cassaday.

A new mini-series starring the 31st Century's greatest heroes begins. On "Earth," the Legion has been disbanded, and M'Onel prepares for an inevitable war while battling an amped-up Tharok.

48 pages, $3.95, arrives in stores on April 18 [2001].