Legion Of Super-Heroes: Consequences by Paul Levitz, Yildiray Cinar and Geraldo Borges (graphic novel review).
The indicia for this book, ‘Legion of Super Heroes: Consequences,’ by Paul Levitz, Yildiray Cinar, and Geraldo Borges, says the material comes from Legion of Super Heroes #7-10, Adventure Comics #521-522, and Legion of Super Heroes Annual #1, but there is no indication of which order. I’m having to presume the first story is from the annual because in style, page count and events it is far removed from what was in the previous volume, ‘Choice’. The ‘Adventure’ issues focus on Mon-El becoming the Green Lantern after reading them. I should point out these books don’t have a volume number on the cover, which I think is a serious mistake.
Keith Giffin does the art in a style quite unlike his previous work. Set on Orlando, Princess Projectra’s home planet, the female prey of one of the dukes there is taken over by the Green Eye, previously held by the now deceased Green Empress, so has a new host. A year later she is ruling the world and finds the life-pods of Lightning Lass and Shrinking Violet after a breakdown with their spacecraft. Despite their lack of flight rings, the Legion receives an alert from the Eye, prompting a few members to come to their rescue. It doesn’t look like it’s part of continuity, so I’m surprised it wasn’t put at the back of the book rather than mess with continuity.
An interesting look at Legion history as a board game and some Interlac words, which should give some smiles.
From there, we are back to the problems started in ‘Choice’, and the Legion is hunting a Durlan assassination team. In the meantime, after Dyogene gathers a selection of Legionnaires, he selects Mon-El to be the new Green Lantern. A little thought here. The users of the power ring tend to have a strong will to control it, so why not any Daxamite or, in earlier times, a Kryptonian? Combined with superpowers, any Green Lantern would be formidable. The Green Lantern Corps in our own time period were mostly non-superpowered. Kiliwog was built like a fighter, and Mogo was just a big sentient planet. Any other attributes were minor in comparison. Looking through the list of Green Lantern Corps members, Mon-El wasn’t the first Daxamite GL; Sodam Yat pops up, so do a few Durlans and one Thangarian.
I’m a bit puzzled as to why Durlans are described as being “cold-blooded’. It’s not as though they are reptiles or dependent on sunlight to warm their blood. As shape-shifters, presumably gaining all the conventional attributes of the species they copy, they can be whatever blood type they choose to be.
As this is a middle book, you’re going to need to read the third volume, ‘When Evil Calls’, to see the ends of these events. In the next volume, all events will be linked together.
GF Willmetts
April 2025
(pub: DC Comics, 2011. 208 page graphic novel hardback. Price: varies. ISBN: 978-1-4012-3238-2).
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