Once the Legion regrouped if you will, Paul Levitz had decided that it was time to shake up the group’s membership some, and that meant the exit of a few key Legion players.
The three founders of the Legion, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and Cosmic Boy cast their vote for Legion leader, and then resign from the Legion to discuss with Element Lad (who is reelected as Legion Leader with Brainiac 5 as his new Deputy Leader) what their new roles will be in the group. Coinciding with this event is the fact that the case that brought together these three teens officially comes to a close as the would be assassins of R.J. Brande were due to be released from prison at the same time.
Cementing their new role as “Legion Advisors” the three remain on call when needed, but the vacuum left behind, must be filled and so Element Lad asks Wildfire to organize a mass tryout for Legion membership.
Meanwhile, we find out about Comet Queen who is a student at the Legion Academy. Turns out she has the hots for Bouncing Boy and wanted to be a Legionnaire so badly she had heard about Star Boy’s origin (flying through a comet), well Comet Queen or Grava of the Extal Colony, decides to jump right into the tail of a comet and it changes her forever into a quirky heroine with orange skin, fantastic agility as a flier, and a laser like plume of hair that leaves a trail behind her. Bouncing Boy manages to convince her to come to the Legion Academy (it wasn’t difficult).
The Legion then finds itself up against some organleggers (again? wow!) and this time the ring leader is a Bgtzlian who appears to be Phantom Lad, a man who challenged Phantom Girl for her spot in the Legion a long time ago. As the Organleggers manage to elude the Legion including Dawnstar’s tracking powers, Brainy deduces what is going on with these pirates and enlists Phantom Girl to board the ship and stop it, which she manages rather easily. Once again showing us it isn’t all about the powers you have, but about how you use them and that goes for brains and intangibility, powers that aren’t as showy as lightning or fire.
Timber Wolf gets to shine as he travels to the insanely barbaric world of Lythyl to fulfill Karate Kid’s will by planting a seed on the toughest rocks on Lythyl. Wolf and the Kid’s mentor the Sensei come to Lythyl and are instantly thrown into this society of the weak are ruled by the strong. As Timber Wolf and Sensei fight their way up the chain of command to the top dogs, the Three Judges of Lythyl: Gorax, Steggus, and Myg and it is Myg that decides to take the two newcomers and test their skills to be on Lythyl.
Timber Wolf and Sensei sense an opportunity here and they knock Myg unconscious and decide to take him off Lythyl to see if they can redeem him from this barbaric world since he is so young. As Wolf completes the mission, the Legion has gotten word of his secret mission and while Timber Wolf could not ask for help from anyone except Sensei to complete the mission, he can get help in the form of a rescue executed by Mon-El, White Witch, and Invisible Kid.
With the Legion of Super-Heroes vs. Legion of Super-Villains war finally wrapped up, its time for the try outs for new members.
The Top Row: The Skreasks, Dev-Em, Sensor Girl, & Comet Queen
The Middle Row: Tiger Girl, Mentalla, Energy Boy, Quislet’s Ship & Quislet Construct
The Bottom Row: Tellus, Polar Boy, Magnetic Kid, & Power Boy.
Five new members? Wow! That’s a lot of new blood for the Legion, so lets look at this logically. Recent gaps in the membership include an energy wielder, a telepath, a magnetic, an illusionist, and a martial artist: (Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Projectra, and Karate Kid).
We know from what has already occurred that Lightning Lass has taken her brother’s place, so ignore the energy wielder as a position needing to be filled.
It should go without saying that Magnetic Kid, who is Pol Krinn, Cosmic Boy’s little brother will be taking Cosmic Boy’s position in the Legion.
That leaves four more positions to replace.. okay.. well with a telepath gone, Saturn Girl’s abilities were invaluable in many cases to the Legion, so replacing her comes down to two potential candidates. Tellus, a Hykraian who has telepathic and telekinetic powers, but is a fish like being and breathes a methane like atmosphere and Mentalla, a telepath from Titan, who is able to mentally control other individuals. The Legion chooses Tellus who has undergone Legion Academy training, while Mentalla is fresh from Titan with no real Legion training to her credit.
So two positions filled and one more reject is added to the pile, and this one will come back in a few.
When Energy Boy begins his tryout, he is interrupted by Polar Boy of the now former Legion of Substitute Heroes, he requests that he be allowed to compete for Legion membership as his control over his ice powers have increased greatly over the years.
Polar Boy makes the cut. Energy Boy does not.
Power Boy is also rejected for not having too much of a distinctive power.
We do not even see the Skreaks or Tiger Girl audition, add them to the reject list.
So that leaves two positions left and we have Comet Queen who joined Brainiac Five, Magnetic Kid, Tellus, and Mon-El on a training mission only to discover Dev-Em attempting to stop an Ontiir clone from sinking the coastline. Ontirr takes the Legion applicants out and it is through the appearance of a strange ship holding a creature known as Quislet.
Ontiir vs. Quislet
Quislet pops out of the ship and pops into Ontiir’s laser chair and animates the chair and uses it to take out Ontiir. Right after, the chair disintegrates and Quislet is then forced back into his ship.
The Legion is summarily impressed and admits Quislet, but rejects Comet Queen and Dev-Em rejects the Legion to stay in the Interstellar Spy Corps.
That leaves Sensor Girl.
Who is Sensor Girl and what are her powers will be a mystery solved later, but lets leave it at this.. Saturn Girl personally urges the Legionnaires to admit her stating “trust me Legionnaires, Sensor Girl has the best of reasons to join the Legion.”
Magnetic Kid, Tellus, Quislet, Polar Boy, and Sensor Girl all inducted into the Legion of Super-Heroes
And that is all for the Legion for a little bit folks. We have one stop to make back in Titansland and then we move on to one of the most major series of stories in the DC Universe ever written.
Next Up: Titans Time! Lilith! Azrael! Kole!
