Analysis Notes
| 1:1 |
Those would be clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, not
islands. |
| 1:2 |
The Silver Age Superman was said to need to sleep, not
to physically rest but to dream, to rest the brain. Of course, he
was still biological, while Garth is now made of some kind of living crystal. |
| Why wake up Dr. Gym’ll when there must be lots of
other physicians on board who could speak with Garth? It’s
probably a matter of (unadmitted) pride on Gym’ll part to be on
call around the clock for the Legionnaires. |
| Dr. Gym’ll is usually more purple in color.
Barring a gaffe on the part of the colorist, perhaps his species changes
color at different times of day or as energy levels change. |
| 1:3-4 |
Gee, maybe the other Legionnaires might be less leery of
you, Garth, if you’d stop wearing Element Lad’s clothes!
If you want to convince them that you’re Garth and not some billion
year-old mad god back from the dead, trying dressing like Garth.
“Clothes make the man,” don’t you know? |
| 2:2 |
This is a flashback to The Legion
#< >, to the cemetery world of Shanghalla. Spark brought crystals
back from the Second Galaxy and combined them with hologram-producing
Palean memory-crystals Kid Quantum saved during Legion Lost. |
| 3:1 |
The three behind Timber Wolf are cadets from the new Legion
Academy. One is a robot, one is a fox-like creature, and one is
Comet Queen. |
| Timber Wolf’s shower comment is well taken.
Probably none of the three take human-type water showers. |
| 4, 5:2 |
This is probably a different Kwai scout than seen in 9:3,
and not one who has been named before. The one from 9:3 was undoubtedly
killed by the Credo, especially if M’Onel’s costume took this
much damage. |
| 5:3 |
The Kwai in the upper-left is Herros; the ice bear in the
lower right is Brek (so we dub him “Polar Bear”, hee hee!).
The other Credo are new. |
| Herros’ staff is a Kwai fire staff. |
| 6:2 |
Superboy is supposed to limit his knowledge of the future
— specifically of the past of the Legion’s future to a minimum
– to reduce the risks of temporal paradox once they are able to
send him back to the 21st century. |
| 8:2 |
The weapon probably had red solar radiation in its output. |
| 8:3 |
One cause for the Credo! One crotch shot for the
fanboys! |
| 9:1 |
Behind the green goggled Credo can be seen long hair on
two combatants. This would be Shikari and Herros. |
| 9:3 |
The triangular-headed Credo must have come through the
Threshold after the initial six. |
| They are recognizing Garth as Progenitor, but that would
appear to be based mostly on the costume, although perhaps over a billion
years, Jan’s image became so iconified that an entire galaxy can
only make one connection with it. Our society isn’t quite
there yet, although Santa Claus, Elvis, and so on might be on the road
to it. |
| 9:4 |
“The One” is Singularity. |
| Unknown which of the Credo is speaking, but it is neither
Herros nor Brek. |
| 10:1-2 |
“Even” R.J. Brande is a prisoner. Sure,
he’s a fantastic guy, even has some telepathic powers, but…
then again, there’s the old belief that Brande isn’t just
a human, and M’Onel has had close exposure to Brande which the others
have not, so maybe “even” isn’t exaggeration. |
| 10:4 |
This is Enkenet, presumably on the Kwai township. |
| 11:3 |
“Question authority and authority questions you.”
Or “If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re
part of the problem.” |
| The Progeny were actually a specific alien race which looked
like giant pillbugs. |
| 11:2-3 |
Although they aren’t specified as such – they
could be flashbacks – we will assume that these panels occur temporally
between 11:1 and 11:4, and thus that the aliens in 11:3 are Amshanai. |
| 11:4 |
This is a clue to the real situation. Singularity
had no direct contact or interaction with Progenitor, and there is no
indication that the society which imprisoned him did, either. (Then
again, it’s possible that all Second Galaxy civilizations
came about because of Progenitor.) Singularity has other motives
here. |
| 12:3 |
Again: so stop wearing that damned outfit! |
| 12:4-5 |
That Garth would be Progenitor should
have been a secondary thought. Lar’s first thought should
have been that he was Element Lad, since M’Onel never had any interaction
with Progenitor. (M’Onel and the others left on a mission
to the Second Galaxy in The Legion #< >, which Garth came
back in # < >.) |
| 12:5 |
Typo, should be “So what do we do now?” |
| 13 |
Traditionally, one Legionnaire always stayed behind to
man the Mission Monitor Room. Sometimes that was done at random;
here it falls to the single Legionnaire who can’t be allowed to
come on the mission: Garth. |
| 14:1 |
Proverso is the Interlac of the Second Galaxy. |
| Translators are included in the Flight Rings, although
the Legion has telepathic earplugs which can do the job as well. |
| 14:3 |
Invisible Kid is at the top of the panel. |
| 14:3 |
Identifying the Legionnaires by their silhouettes: Wildfire’s
helmet, Umbra (with inking problems causing her cape to be mispresented),
Ferro, Cosmic Boy, Brainiac 5 (with an Omnicom), Sensor (head), Mon-El,
Kid Quantum, and Superboy. |
| 15:1 |
The scanned five here are the same as in 15:2. |
| 15:3 |
Superboy’s cape is to the left. |
| 15:4 |
M’Onel’s cape is to the right. |
| 15:5 |
Seen here are Ultra Boy, Apparition, Brainiac 5, Triad,
Cosmic Boy, Superboy, Wildfire, Kid Quantum, Sensor, and M’Onel. |
| 16:1 |
Seen here are M’Onel, Shikari, Ferro, Kid Quantum,
Invisible Kid, Spark, Apparition, Ultra Boy, and Superboy. |
| 16:4 |
The orange Credo with the beak and goggles is Nox. |
| 17:2 |
Triad is behind Kid Quantum. |
| 17:3 |
“Satanic” probably isn’t the best word
to use here, given its cultural specificity. |
| 18:1 |
Brek’s silhouette is behind Singularity. |
| 18:2 |
“We don’t”… negotiate with terrorists. |
| 18:5 |
“Old friend”: Superboy was the one who saved
M’Onel’s life by putting him into the Stasis Zone when Lar
was delusional from lead poisoning. |
| 18:6 |
Ferro and Gear are behind Cosmic Boy. |
| 19:2 |
Garth already gave his life in Legion Lost #12,
to kill the combined Progenitor/Omniphagos. |
| 20:5 |
Vi’s question sets up part of the next issue. |
| 21:1-3 |
All Credo dialog on this page comes from the jellyfish
Credo. |
| 21:3 |
The jellyfish Credo and the dog-eared one (whose name is
Rayl) were previously seen in The Legion #5. The one to
the far left looks a lot like Pakrat from Atari Force, but with
a mask. |
| 22:3 |
It’s not clear what the orange coloration would be
coming from. Perhaps Garth’s own powers? |
