Unresolved Questions of the 5YG! (A Legion Thread)

The green energy was Green Lantern power from Oa. She became a full time member of the Legion after Giffen left. When Glorith used her powers to revert or age the Legion, Celeste's body withered and died and she became a being of green energy. She called herself Neon, and remained with the Legion until the Zero Hour came, and everything was wiped out.

# Was "The Crying Game" bit in #31 with Sean / Shavaughn out-of-the-blue, or established in a previous series?

Out of the blue.

Here's a good explanation of the moon's destruction from a LOSH FAQ:

11. How was the moon destroyed? And who is Dev-Em?

The destruction of the moon was shown in ADVENTURES OF
SUPERMAN #478, and its repercussions in LSH v4 #19. Essentially,
Superman was involved in a time travel story that involved
alternating between the past and the future. Large amounts of
energy were apparently necessary to catapult him through time.

At the end of the crossover, Superman arrived in 2995,
where mad Daxamite Dev-Em was involved in a pitched battle with
the LSH. Dev-Em ultimately decided to activate a destruct system
the Dominators had installed (Operation: Triple Strike). With the
help of Superman, Dev-Em was defeated, and Imra was able to
disable the destruct device. However, the Linear Man, who had
been behind the time trip, realized that the moon had to be
destroyed to maintain history as it was established. He re-
activated the system, sending Superman back in time and destroying
the moon. (The LSH managed to escape, and Dev-Em was later
revealed to have survived.)

The "Time and Time Again" storyline, of which this was a
part, appeared in ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #476-8, SUPERMAN #54-55,
and ACTION #664-5.

It was total fanfic: Element Lad was always one of teh gayest superheros ever (see his '70s costume where the logo is a GIANT PENIS rising from the crotch and finishing on his chest [fnarr]), and people didn't like it when Levitz butched him up by giving him a hot girlfriend who broke down his shy defenses to ride the GIANT PENIS. So the Bierbaums re-gayed him by making his hot girlfriend a fag. Shit story, great cover.

No, really, what was Black Dawn?

Never got told, you don't need to know, it happened in the gap, etc.

So, er, how did the moon get destroyed? It seemed to involve Superman somehow, but it was never made all that clear.

Yeah, you have to read a bunch of Dan Jurgens comics to see that happen, ie it's not worth it.

What was the Dark Circle, anyway, aside from some guys with Mysterions on their masks?

Old LSH foes, yer standard cult-infiltrates-and-takes-over-from-within style conspiracy supervillains.

Kid Quantum? Who might he be, then?

Possibly the very worst part of the clean-up TMK were forced to do after Carlin made them reboot the universe in #4, he's the Superboy stand-in like Laurel Gand is the Supergirl stand-in. Don't think about it, really.

Including the nastiest jelly ever made! Thanks for the answers, Kit and Matthew. They never explained Black Dawn? I bet the Legion fans loved that…

(was Garth a Proty as well?)

Vic, bear in mind that I haven't read that issue in over a decade.

Black Dawn was some sort of Imskian war atrocity, no?

re Black Dawn - Imsk set off some kind of bomb that reacted with the Braalian magnetic powers and made them all melt or some such. Cosmic Boy survived but he lost his powers in the process. Serves him right for calling himself "cosmic" when he totally isn't.

Yeah, some SW6ers died in the war with the Dominators. Can't remember which off the top of my head, aside from Chameleon Boy.

Thanks for all the answers! I feel a little more versed in Legion lore now...

It is vaguely approachable to anyone without a LoSH encyclopedia?

I found this most helpful: http://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/910.html

I made it through the first time round with next to no previous LOSH exposure. I just bought it because I really liked the bleak cover to #1. The PDA stuff helps fill in a lot, and the storytelling works so well that you can piece together a lot.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, December 5, 2005 10:54 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I read all of this stuff as a kid with no prior knowledge of the Legion, and I loved it. I gradually picked up the background info, but a lot of the appeal to me was that the story had this massive scope and a huge ammount of backstory that would be alluded to here and there. Really, it's not unlike watching something like Lost, where you have a big story and you learn a bit more about the characters all the time.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, December 5, 2005 11:14 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, and Chuck, you really can just stop reading after issue 39 or 40. That's pretty much where the story ends, and then it goes off in a "new direction."
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, December 5, 2005 11:15 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tonight I am totally spending re-reading FYL #1-40 for the first time in a dog's age