The Legion 9

The Legion #9 Reboot » Post-Zero Hour Cover, by Olivier Coipel, et al.. Story title Baby on Board Previous story (Apparition/Timber Wolf/Cub) Legion Worlds #6: You are here - Rimbor (publication) The Legion #8 Next story The Legion #10 (Apparition/Timber Wolf/Cub) The Legion #11 Publication date June 26, 2002 Cover date August 2002 Creators Writer(s) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA) Penciller Stephen DeStefano Inker Stephen DeStefano Letterer Comicraft Colourist(s) Tom McCraw Separations Digital Chameleon Editor Mike McAvennie Cover artist(s) Olivier Coipel (pencils) Andy Lanning (inks) Richard and Tanya Horie (colours).

Baby on Board

Apparition, her son and Timber Wolf are delayed in meeting with the Legion after the Footstep Drive ship they were on is disabled by a mysterious energy wave.

As Apparition is affected by mysterious, painful, telepathic emissions coming from the disabled engine, Timber Wolf is forced to chase "Cub", who has the powers of both his parents, around the ship until they meet up in the engine room, where Cub inadvertently unlocks the engine, revealing the "engine" to be a mutated Vygran/Carggite/Winathian hybrid. Allowing it to die, trusting that help will come, its' final transmission to Apparition (sensitive because of her own half-Carggite heritage) tells her that it was the Robotican wake which had disabled it...

Notes

• This issue follows directly on from Apparition, "Cub" and Timber Wolf's departure from Rimbor in Legion Worlds #6, and no references are made to the first eight issues of the series.
• The cover design changes very slightly, with the issue number and cover date changing from the previous, boxed, style with the dropping of the Comics Code Authority seal to something more reminicesent of the Legion Worlds cover dress. This aspect of style will remain until the series' end.
• The issue has a letters page, with letters referring to The Legion #4

Solicitation

THE LEGION #9

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

Apparition is en route to Earth to reunite with long-lost husband Ultra Boy and introduce him to the baby son he's never met. Unfortunately, the spacecraft she's traveling in has gone on the fritz, she uncovers a mystery that means imminent trouble for the Legion and Earth, and travel companion-turned-babysitter Timber Wolf finds bringing up this baby is more than he bargained for.

32 pages, $2.50, in stores on June 26.

Cover images

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  Solicitation cover art (B&W)

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  Promotional cover art

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  Published cover

See also

• The Legion
• Legion Publication History - Other issues published (late) 2001-2004
• Legion Publication History - Other issues of The Legion
• Post-Zero Hour Chronology

External links

• Baby Boom: DeStefano talks 'Legion #9' and more (CBR)

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