1. He was still going by this name when the Rift collapse occurred.
2. He was still going by this name when the Rift collapse occurred.
3. Technically an Alien Race, but the Blight always take on a Villain role.
4. As seen clearly in The Legion #2, the Oversight Watch members (except for M’Onel) are not Heroes, despite being pushed as such to the public at this time.
| General | It is odd for DC to number the pages in this story starting again from 1, rather than sequentially through the entire issue. |
| 1:1 | Dialogue is presumably from Triads Orange, Neutral, and Purple, respectively. The shadows do not count as panel appearances for them. |
| Binder Tower-Plex is named for science fiction and comics author Otto Binder (1911-1975). He wrote numerous short stories and novel with his brother Earl, under the pseudonym “Eando Binder,” including the “Adam Link” series. Under comics, he worked on various Golden and early Silver Age series, including numerous Captain Marvel stories, and of course such Legion-important stories as Action Comics #252 (1st appearance of Supergirl) and Adventure Comics #247 (1st appearance of the Legion). | |
| 1:2 | Coloring error: it should be the left side of Triad-Neutral’s outfit which is purple. Compare to 22:3 in the first story in this issue, and to 7:2 in this story. |
| 1:3 | Triad-Purple is the seated, speaking one. Triad-Neutral’s outfit is colored correctly. |
| It probably isn’t coincidence that they tuned in just in time for the “station identification.” Compare to 21st century programs like Internet radio stations which stream the station information before sending the program. By the 31st century, they can probably expand or compress the signal such that you never tune into the middle of a segment, to boot. | |
| 1:4 | Coloring error: as seen in 7:2, Triad-Orange is the one on the left side of this panel. |
| 1:5 | “Planetary Oversight Watch” is apparently an error, as “Presidential” is used in place of “Planetary” for the rest of this story. |
| Dialogue is from Triads Neutral and Purple. | |
| 2:3 | Dialogue is from Triads Neutral and Purple. |
| 3:1 | Why did M’Onel stay on as champion of Earth? Perhaps it was indeed that he was unwilling to abandon his adopted world (but it’s not like Daxam has been destroyed or anything). Perhaps he has other reasons for staying around and keeping an eye on McCauley, such as a personal request from Brande before he left? |
| 3:2 | Why did the Braalian Repulse make the cut into the Watch but Amber and Dune did not? |
| Are Brainstorm, Twine, and Abyss anyone we’ve met before? Brainstorm sounds likely to be Titanian, although he was later revealed to be male and thus not Saturn Queen or Imra’s little sister, Jancel. Later information on Abyss makes it appear that he is the new owner of the rings used by the Ringers in Legion: Science Police. Twine doesn’t seems to have any connections to other parts of Legion continuity other than her homeworld, Rimbor. | |
| Mr. Venge may play a Marla Latham adviser role with the Presidential Oversight Watch. | |
| 4-5:3 | The Footstep Drive: one thought was that it might use remnants of the Fires of Creation, but it turned out to be more sinister, utilizing genetic information from Vyrgans with latent teleportation powers. |
| 4-5:6 | This is a flashback to the dedication of the statue, probably a couple weeks after Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #1250. Want to bet that the disbanding was done with all the remaining Legionnaires present, and without them being told ahead of time? Wouldn’t that be just like McCauley? (This was proven true in Legion Worlds #6 (story #2), although it probably wasn’t actually McCauley who did it.) |
| The statues behind McCauley are Ultra Boy and ERG-1. | |
| With no way to tell which Triad spoke, credit this to Triad as a whole | |
| 6 | The dialogue on this page will be assigned according to balloon placement and where the three Triad’s are seated in 7:2, but in reverse, as though we were facing them rather than behind them. (This is necessary because the last dialogue flows into 7:1 and 7:2 and must come from Triad-Orange, who is seated on the right end of the couch when looking head on.) Thus, the leftmost balloons are from Triad-Neutral, the rightmost ones are from Triad-Orange, and the others are from Triad-Purple. |
| 6:1 | This is a flashback to Legionnaires #81, where McCauley became president. |
| 6:2 | “The Colossus of Keystone” probably has nothing to do with Keystone City, home of the Golden Age Flash. Metropolis has sprawled across several states by the 31st century — preboot maps has it encompassing most everything from Washington DC to Boston — but the twin cities of Keystone City and Central City are much further west, corresponding perhaps to Minneapolis/St. Paul (given that they have been referred to as the “Twin Cities”). Metropolis is unlikely to have encompassed them. (And XS never mentioned the Flash Museum as being located in Metropolis.) |
| 6:3 | In the grand tradition of riffing on Star Trek, “Robotica” = “Borg”. |
| 6:4 | According to the letter column in Legion Worlds #5, this is not Gates (although the letter column said page 7). The letter column is wrong: Gates is the only Vyrgan known to dress this way, and that image would just be a file holo anyway, connecting the planet to its best-known citizen. |
| 7:1 | This is Triad-Orange’s finger. |
