Analysis Notes
| General |
This story takes place shortly after Legion of Super-Heroes
v4 #125 (probably a couple weeks), before any of the other stories in
Legion Worlds. It occurs sometime during Legion Lost, but
there are no markers for how time aligns between the two galaxies, and
there is no crossover interaction with the characters in the two series,
so no tracking between that series and this story needs occur. |
| Most of the second stories in Legion Worlds have
been unnumbered or kept the page numbering of the first story. This
one differs. |
| Ra’s al Ghul uses an image inducer to appear as Leland
McCauley, but we don’t track that unless it is explicitly shown
or mentioned. |
| 1 |
Sensor looks like she put on some weight here. |
| 2:1 |
The blond girl is Lori Morning. The dark-haired woman
in front of her is Vice-president Winema Wazzo. The hand and red
jacket to the far right belong to Chuck Taine. |
| In the preboot continuity, Legion Headquarters was located
on Weisinger Plaza at the end of the Avenue of Heroes, which featured
giant statues of the Legionnaires. Although we don’t see Legion
Headquarters and the Legion Lost statue together here, it seems like the
logical place to put it would be in the same plaza, which we have already
dubbed with the preboot name. Henceforth, though, it will be referred
to as Legion Memorial Plaza, per the name used in The Legion #33. |
| 2:2 |
Recall that the Legion was chartered by the United Planets
as something between a police force and a marketing gimmick designed to
show the unity of the United Planets. While that status shifted
somewhat after President Chu was deposed and the Legion constitution was
written, they must have retained the chartering if President McCauley
could take this action. (Then again, their founder, R.J. Brande,
was president after Chu, so why not?) |
| Note that this is not Leland McCauley, but is instead Ra’s
al Ghul, using an image inducer (not tracked unless is explicitly shown
or mentioned). McCauley was killed sometime after the Blight invasion
but before this story. Ra’s al Ghul has his own reasons for
wanting the superheroes out of his way. |
| The two Science Police officers might be Shvaughn and Dyrk,
but that isn’t especially likely. This proximity to the statue
during the service might be granted to Shvaughn, but Dyrk’s rank
is way too low to receive such a position of honor. |
| 2:4 |
These monocular goggles were seen on Braal in Legion
Worlds #3 (story #1). The person with the green skin, though,
evokes the preboot Visi-Lad (who wore a monocular device at one time),
so we will dub him thus. |
| Neither of the blue-skinned beings seen here are Talokian,
nor are the others of identifiable races. Per the above, the green-skinned
one is not Coluan. |
| 2:5 |
This is Spark, who list her twin brother and her boyfriend
in the Rift collapse which is believed to have killed the Legionnaires
who are memorialized in the statue. |
| 3:1 |
The Science Police officer is Shvaughn Erin. The
man she is speaking to is no one known, but presumably some United Planets
VIP. |
| 3:3 |
Dialogue is from Cosmic Boy. |
| 3:4-5 |
This is the lead-in for Legion Worlds #5 (story
#1). |
| 3:5 |
Seen in the statue are Kid Quantum, Ultra Boy, Gates, ERG-1,
and Monstress. |
| 4:1 |
Seen in the statue are Ultra Boy, Gates, and Monstress. |
| 4:1-4 |
This is the lead-in for Legion Worlds #6 (story
#1). |
| 4:2 |
That is ERG-1’s arm. |
| 4:4 |
That is Mon-El behind Lori Morning. |
| Note the absence of Lori’s foster mother, Amelia
Crugg. Crugg’s helmet is seen along with McCauley’s
skeleton in The Legion #2, indicating that she died at the same
time he did. This probably indicates that Lori was somewhere else
at the time, but the perverse possibility is that Ra’s al Ghul killed
McCauley and Crugg but spared Lori (and thus she knows who McCauley really
is). Lori has not been seen since this story, so her fate is unknown,
but it is entirely possible that Ra’s al Ghul stashed her somewhere
offworld, training her as the Demon’s Daughter, a là Talia. |
| 4:5-6 |
Dyrk Magz, the former Legionnaire Magno. His elder
brother Omar is also Science Police. |
| This is a lead-in for Legion Worlds #1 (story
#1) and Legion Worlds #3 (story #1). |
| 5:1 |
Dialogue is from Leviathan. |
| Statue is Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5.1. |
| 5:2 |
“Lost”: ahem, yeah, okay. |
| Statue is Ultra Boy, ERG-1, and Gates. |
| 5:3 |
Statue is Ultra Boy. |
| 5:4 |
Statue is Live Wire and Element Lad. |
| 5:5 |
This is actually C.O.M.P.U.T.O. |
| 5:5-6 |
This is a lead-in for Legion Worlds #1 (story
#1). |
| 6:2 |
Chuck is looking mighty beefy/hunky here, talking to Kinetix. |
7:1-8:4 |
The implication here is that there is more to Brande’s
message than the short bit we see here. Not that he directed all
the Legionnaires to take the paths they did throughout Legion Worlds
— what would the point be of sending Tinya to Rimbor or Val and
Andrew to Steeple? — but it is likely that he offered support and
employment for any of the Legionnaires who wanted to stick around. And
that said, he assuredly directed and bankrolled the Subterfuge Team’s
actions, possibly directed XS to Xanthu with the intent of bringing back
Star Boy and Dreamer, and probably encouraged Kinetix and M’Onel
to act as sort of double agents in the Science Police and the Oversight
Watch. Sensor is left as the biggest curiosity, since as royalty,
she is the most likely of all the Legionnaires to be kept in the public
eye; perhaps she announced her return to seclusion on Orando — already
a world out of the public eye — and then surreptitiously joined
Brande on Legion World with the complicity of King Charlz. |
