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| 48 | This art was originally released as an online promo piece at about the same time as The Legion was announced. This version has been edited from that original (see it to the right): Apparition was originally behind XS rather then next to Karate Kid, Dreamer was included behind Brainiac 5, and Timber Wolf and Andromeda were behind Karate Kid. Obviously, the repurposing was done to feature the actual cast of The Legion . The main accidental result of the changes is to make it appear that Leviathan is staring at Apparition; before, it wasn’t clear what she was looking at (perhaps Timber Wolf smelled bad?). | |
| Some people tried to read the placements of the characters as significant, but relatively few seem to be so. Ferro and Karate Kid were teamed in Legion Worlds #5 (story #1), but are on opposite sides of the image (as were Apparition and Timber Wolf in the original), while Star Boy and XS are close together. Wildfire and Shikari are close together, but other known romantic couples are not. Traditional friends such as Sensor and Chameleon or Brainiac 5 and Gates are also separated. | ||
| Note that Sensor’s robot arms are not seen. She has sometimes been seen without them in The Legion, and they have always been a bit that fandom especially disliked. | ||
| Note the post-dating of the Legion’s founding to the late 2990’s. This is going to be standard: the Legion’s time will always be 1000 years in the future from the present, but their aging will always be less than the real time since they were founded. A good rule of thumb for the Legion has always been half a year passes for them for every full year for the readers. (And thus the originally youngest Legionnaires, Spark and XS, who joined at 14 in 1994, should be 18 as of late 2002; the characterizations tend to go along with this.) | ||
| There are at least three typos in the text: the description of Live Wire has a comma in it, an extra comma exists after Element Lad’s description, Ferro’s codename didn’t end up properly bold, and Sensor’s race should be “Orandan”. | ||
| The order of the Legionnaires after the founding three is in no particular order, neither alphabetic nor in order of joining | ||
No mention is made of the deaths of either the first Kid Quantum or the first Leviathan. |
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| Gates is listed as having “atypical” powers. Actually, they are “engineered”, since he gave them to himself intentionally; his science background is often underplayed and forgotten. Further there has been evidence for years, confirmed in The Legion, that the teleportation powers are natural but latent in his race. | ||
The description for Sensor continues the
statement from Legion of Super-Heroes: Secret Files #2 that
all Orandon’s have the illusion powers. While Princess Projectra
sets a sort of precedent in opposition to this, she also got her powers
via magic; there being no indication that Jeka’s powers are anything
but natural, it follows that they are probably common to the entire
race. (Orando has two non-human races on it; probably only the
snakes are illusionists.) |
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| Note that the text mentions M’Onel’s 20th century origins but not Ferro’s. | ||
| As of this pinup, Wildfire, Shikari, and Gear are formally considered members of the Legion. This is reinforced in The Legion #3, when R.J. Brande tells all the Lost Legionnaires, including Wildfire and Shikari, to get new flight rings. | ||
| What is the object hovering above Karate Kid?
At first glance, it would appear to be a holovid camera, but why would
it be pointed at the backs of the Legionnaires? And why would it
be in the image at all? Instead, consider that it might be a new Legionnaire, one not mentioned in the text because it hasn’t been introduced yet… at least in the postboot continuity. In the preboot, there was an energy-based Legionnaire who lived in a floating ship: Quislet! Further, Quislet’s power was to enter objects, especially machinery, and animate it. The second story arc of The Legion puts the Legionnaires up against the constantly shifting mechanical threat of Robotica. Will Robotica be defeated by a “traitor” within its own ranks, a quisling named Quislet? (And as an outside possibility, Quislet has been on Earth for some months, projecting the image of Mr. Venge.) Now, as to why the object was left in this edited version of the image… |
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