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''Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.''
 
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*[[Legion Publication History/1999-2001|Legion Publication History - Other issues published (late) 1999-2001]]
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Revision as of 21:23, 10 November 2007

Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #123
Reboot » Post-Zero Hour
LSHv4-123.jpg
Cover by Olivier Coipel, et al
Story title Legion of the Damned Part Three: Damned if we don't!
Previous story Legionnaires #79
Next story Legionnaires #80
Publication date 24 November, 1999
Cover date January 2000
Creators
Writer(s) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA)
Penciller(s) Olivier Coipel
Inker(s) Andy Lanning
Letterer(s) Comicraft
Colourist(s) Tom McCraw
Editor(s) Mike McAvennie
Cover artist(s) Olivier Coipel (pencils)
Andy Lanning (inks)
Patrick Martin (colours).

Legion of the Damned Part Three: Damned if we don't!

Flashbacks to the Blight's origin from Saturn Girl's mental dump keep stopping XS dead as she tries to escape the Stem, pursued by Blighted - the Blight were an incredibly advanced race, but now they no longer remember who they were or where they came from. With immortality their only remaining goal, they made a deal with Entropy, who gave them "Eternal existance... for a price."

As XS emerges from one of the trances, Saturn Girl wakes and knocks the Blighted out, while Cos' team arrive and rescues them as XS fuges out once more - the Blight were trapped in a state of entropic decay by their deal, needing to feed off other races to maintain their existence. Becoming insane over the course of many years, they eventually found and enslaved the Doda, a benign network of tendrils which grazed on the "life force bloom" of inhabited planets. The Blight corrupted it to be their transport. After a [Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files 2|chance encounter with the Legion]], they saw the Earth and its' richness of lifeforce for the first time.

XS wakes in Monstress' arms, as Chameleon directs them to a Resistance shelter, then apologises to Jenni for letting her and the others be captured. XS reassures him it wasn't his fault, and hugs him. With the Blight out looking for the escapees, M'Onel - unBlightable, but being tapped for power - senses a chance to escape, but is quickly brought down by Atrophos, who calls him the key to exterminating all life, and ending the Blight's curse.

The small group of free Legionnaires hunt down a Blight Attack group and, despite Apparition being thrown when about to knock the Blighted Kinetix out, sucessfully retrieve a Blight identity signature so they can move about at will in the Stem safely. Cos says that, if XS' story is true, they need to destroy the Doda to shut the Blight down - but Saturn Girl thinks in response that, while she "wishes she could tell them", she may need to "betray them all."

Roll Call

Legionnaires

NB: Legionnaires who appear only as "Blighted" are listed under "Villains"

Villains

Other characters

Planets and Settings

Technology, gadgets, etc

Solicitation

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #123

Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.

The secrets of the Blight are revealed in Part 3 of the 4-part "Legion of the Damned." But will that information help XS, the super-speeding Legionnaire who's in for the run of her life -- against her own mind-controlled teammates -- inside the Blight headquarters known as the Stem? Also, is there a traitor in the Legion's midst?

32 pages, $2.50, ships on Nov. 24.

Cover images

See also