LSH v4 #49 annotations: The World's First Edible Blog

   Annotations for LSH v4 #49

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• Timeline: August 5-6, 2995

Notes:

• Page 1: Tenzil trading cards
• Panel 1: parody of Terminator
• Panel 2: Eyeful Ethel first appeared in ADV 330, then next in the Subs Special
• Panel 3: Omega and the Miracle Machine from SLSH 251
• Panels 5-6: the captions got swapped for these two. The Monument to the Champions of Many Planets include Estimate Lad (Secret Origins 37), Double Header (intro in ADV 323, last seen DCCP 59), Eyeful Ethel, Tusker (intro in ADV 331, last seen DCCP 59), and Arm-Fall-Off Boy (Secret Origins 46)
• Panel 7: Tenzil frees Brek from prison (LSH v4 11)
• Panel 8: on Tartarus (LSH v4 14)
• Page 2 panel 1: “several weeks ago” from the last known date of 8/9/95, let’s call it about 5 weeks which puts this in late June or early July, in the month-long gap between when Brainiac 5 reveals he has given Luornu a force field power after rescuing her second body from Glorith, and when Mysa goes to Tharn to confront Mordru (there’s a gap from 6/27 to 7/29).
• Page 2 panel 9: info on the Hypno-Stone via the 2995 Sourcebook will be mentioned at the end of the story
• Page 3: Mordru in a song and dance, now all we need is him on a jet-ski
• Page 5 panel 3: Tenzil says “hated ditching the Legion like that, but at least we got that Mordru mess wrapped up”. He left the Legion on 8/4 with Nura and Projectra, so this is 8/5 at the earliest. 
• Page 13 panel 2: Spaceopoly Lad mentions Vavoona, which is a location as seen on the Legion’s Mission Monitor Board (ADV 342).
• Page 14: there had been a fan theory that Tenzil had retained some of the Miracle Machine’s energies after he was cured, which made it into his Who’s Who entry (the looseleaf version)
• Page 17: callback to the trading card from Tenzil’s date. That’s WWE wrestler Big Van Vader in the mask at the bottom in the crowd.
• Page 23 panel 1: the crowd turns out to see Tenzil and Eve leave. This is no earlier than the next day 8/6.
• Page 23 credits: Tom Bierbaum mentions that the Immonen pages for this issue were from a tryout he did a year or so earlier that got him the Legion job, so they repurposed the drawn pages
• Omnicom
• This TV show aired 5/22/95, which was the day that Nura propositioned Thom on the eve of the Galaxy Series finale, and Saturn Girl was kidnapped (LSH v4 #37)
• Reges Questar had a brief stint as the hero of Zentor (SBOY 222). 
• From the 2995 Sourcebook: The Hypno-Stone had been stolen from the royal family of Titan, per a private journal entry from Feb 2992 in which Universo mentions that “they have robbed me of my precious hypno-stone”. It amplified Universo’s super-hypnotism powers.
• From the 2995 Sourcebook: Meanwhile, on 9/12/94, on the night before his wedding to Eve Aries, Evillo journaled “It is with delight that I note she almost certainly enters into this unholy union with ulterior motives – the Hypno-Stone. She knows as well as I that it has been deposited on this world by Merg Gaterra, the legendary Magpie, and would now be mine if not for that unfortunate misunderstanding regarding his delightful female companion. Gaterra's jealous rage will subside, and he will eventually identify the Stone's location to me, but if my lovely new wife is able to lead me to it in the meantime, all the better.”
• Magpie (of Angtu) is a master thief who was once recruited by an unknown source, who turned out to be the Monitor working on a commission from Universo, to steal a chip from LSH HQ which contains the operating system for the Time Viewer (Tales 320). The story between Magpie’s female companion and Evillo remains unknown. Magpie escaped from prison (Legionnaires 4) when Persuader broke out Mano.

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Cutting down the timeline to just the last few entries since it was getting so long. I'm color coding them based on whether the date appeared in the 2995 Sourcebook (yellow; text in yellow is as written in the Sourcebook), it's a confirmed date that was given in the comic (green), or an estimated date based on keeping track of events and days (cyan). Bold text is something new added this issue. Italics are unknown dates.

• 9/13/94: Evillo marries Eve Aries (LSH v4 #49).
• 5/22/95: TV show airs on the missing Hypno-Stone (LSH v4 #49).
• Late June/early July 2995: Eve Aries finds the Hypno-Stone but Evillo takes her and the stone into custody (LSH v4 #49).
• Wed 7/29/95: Jacques and Drura join the team; Mysa is possessed, and goes to Tharn to confront Mordru (LSH v4 #43), but she is defeated and is absorbed into Mordru. Using this power, he raises armies of the dead in a number of worlds in both UP and Khund space. The Legion agrees to help the Khunds, but they insist that the Legion take on four new Khundish members (LSH v4 #44).
• Sun 8/2/95: The Legion fights Mordru’s zombies on Sklar, Talus, Trom, and in space (LSH v4 #45). On Talus, the Legionnaires fight their own dead, and new Khund Legionnaire Bloodclaw is killed before the team halts Mordru’s magics on the planet. Jan fights the dead Trommites on Pasnic (LSH v4 #46). The Legionnaires bring the fight to Mordru on Tharn, losing the Khund Firefist in the process (LSH v4 #47). The dead on Talus are defeated, but during the fight Timber Wolf returns to the 30th century with Jamm (LSH v4 Ann #4). With the help of Devlin O’Ryan and the spirit of Amethyst, Mordru and Mysa are separated and Mordru is defeated (LSH v4 #48). 
• Mon 8/3/95: Jamm takes the Legionnaires on a prodigious trip before being returned to his own time (LSH v4 Ann #4).
• Tues 8/4/95: The Legion leaves Tharn for Khundish space, where Flederweb and Veilmist are forced to rejoin the Khundish forces. Jan recovers on Pasnic, while Amethyst and Mysa ponder the future (LSH v4 #48).
• Wed 8/5/95: Tenzil travels to Tartarus and with the help of Polar Boy and friends, they rescue Eve and defeat Evillo (LSH v4 #49). 
• Thu 8/6/95 : Tenzil and Eve depart Tartarus for Titan (LSH v4 #49)
• Fri 8/7/95: the SW6 Legionnaires spend the weekend at the Atlantis Dome on New Earth (Legionnaires #7)
• Sat 8/8/95: the SW6 Legionnaires encounter the race of Devil-Fish in the Atlantis Dome (Legionnaires #7)
• Sun 8/9/95: the SW6 Legionnaires leave the Atlantis dome on New Earth (Legionnaires #7).
• Mon 8/10/95: Several Legionnaires leave New Earth for Colu (Legionnaires #8).
• Tues 8/11/95: Brainiac 5 thinks of leaving the Legion and remaining on Colu (Legionnaires #8).
• Wed 8/12/95: Brainiac 5 returns to New Earth with the rest of his team (Legionnaires #8).