| General | Only pages 1-4 are covered here. The Legionnaires are presumably around for the next couple pages, but unseen and unmentioned, and they are then presumably all killed on page 8. |
| This is an Elseworlds story. Continuity is only tracked within this “universe”, that depicted in the three (to date) Generations series. | |
| Each issue of this series occurs about 100 years after the previous one, tied to year xx25. The theory behind that being that Superman was 29 years old in his first appearance in 1939 (29 being his stated age throughout the Silver Age), and thus 1925 is when he was 15, the right age for joining the Legion. | |
| 1 | In the previous issue, Superman, Batman, and Lara took Lois and Lana back to 1925 Smallville and returned with Saturn Girl in the Legion time bubble, only to find greater devastation than when they left. That is where this issue picks up. |
| This is actually outside Smallville, which is an underground, domed city. | |
| 2:1 | Chameleon Boy’s statement is directed solely at Superman. Superman was last seen in 2825. |
| Saturn Girl’s reply makes little sense. She never visited the 29th century. Basically, this points to a shoddy editing job, possibly a shoddy scripting job: in order to get the information about the confusing time travel across to the reader (the Parademons are going backward in time, most of the superheroes are experiencing time normally, and some of the characters are travelling through time and between issues of the series), Byrne has Saturn Girl deliver the dialogue because he had no space in the art for anyone else to do so. While she certainly might know this info, she has no reason to be stating it. | |
| 2:2 | Apparently at least a couple days have passed since Brainiac 5’s death in Superman & Batman: Generations III #<7>. |
| Silly Legionnaire: if you don’t see the body, she isn’t really dead! | |
| Speaking of dead, though, where are the other Legionnaires? Are they dead as well? Doesn’t Imra want to know where Garth is? (Maybe she read Rokk and Reep’s minds.) Byrne’s storytelling needs a kick in the ass here for the lack of a comment on the status of a couple dozen other heroes, all presumed dead. | |
| 2:4 | Dialogue is from Cosmic Boy. |
| 3:1 | Cosmic Boy has presumably levitated some metal debris to block the beam. Alternately, if it’s a plasma beam (plasma being basically a stream of charged particles), he may have created a magnetic bottle to hold it. |
| 3:3 | Parademons are not actually living beings (despite being obviously sentient), so the heroes feel no compunction about “killing” them. |
| 3:4 | Off-panel dialogue is from Green Lantern. |
| 4:1 | “At least”? There was mention in the previous issue of a number of heroes, but they were never named. Given Cosmic Boy and Chameleon Boy’s presence, that would likely have been mostly Legionnaires. |
| 4:2-3 | “Jordan Kelley”: named for Hal Jordan and the color Kelly Green. Byrne is a bit too fond of his cleverness with the “Jordan” joke and sends it home with a hammer. |
| 4:4 | The three trails at the bottom are presumably the Legionnaires; they may be a little slower, since they are using flight rings. |
| 5-8 | The three Legionnaires don’t appear in the rest of the issue, although they are presumably involved in the battle over the next couple pages. The Parademons use their Sky Scorcher weapon on page 7, and it devastates the surface of the planet on page 8. Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman all survive, but Lara is explicitly killed. Did the Legionnaires also die? Who knows? Byrne just drops the characters on the floor and ignores them, making no further mention of them. (See similar note for 2:2.) There’s a faint chance that they escaped into Smallville’s dome and survived, if the city itself survived, but not even that chance is mentioned. Not that it matters in the end, since this entire continuity gets wiped out at the end of the issue anyway. |
| One possibility for the storytelling lapses in this issue (and elsewhere in the series) is that the page count was sliced from (say) 32 story pages down to 22, either in general for the series or specifically for this issue (which might have been intended as a “double-sized finale”). There’s always a faint chance that the missing pages will be restored for an eventual collected edition, akin to the restored and expanded scenes on the Lord of the Rings DVDs. |
Character Name |
Cover |
Panels / Speaking |
| Heroes | ||
| Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn) | 8 / 3 | |
| Chameleon Boy (Reep Daggle) | 7 / 3 | |
| Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen) | 7 / 3 | |
| Superman (Clark Kent / Kal-El) | X | 9 / 4 |
| Lara (Lara Wayne) | X | 8 / 1 |
Batman (Bruce Wayne) |
X | 7 / 3 |
Green Lantern (Jordan Kelley) |
X | 4 / 5 |
| Wonder Woman (Princess Diana) |
X | 0 / 0 |
| Villains | ||
Parademons |
X | 3 / 1 |
