LSH v4 #57 annotations: Forewarned is Four-Armed!

     Annotations for Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #57:

• On sale 3/22/94
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 698 (Feb 28, 2022)
• Timeline: Sept 28, 2995

Notes:

• Page 1 panel 1: Academy cadets include Jagged and Dragonfly (we’ll learn their names shortly), and Rush (last seen in #52), led by Porcupine Pete (last seen in #40). 
• Page 3 panel 1: Xera was last seen during the Universo Project (LSHv3 #33), Visi-Lad was last seen in LSHv3 #54, and R327 is new. The red tiger is a woman who turns into a feline who Steve Lightle called “Tiger Girl” who appeared on the cover of LSHv3 14 when we met a bunch of Academy hopefuls. In an interview with the Cosmic Teams website, this issue’s artist Christopher Taylor confirmed that in the script that Tiger Girl was her code name, even if it was never spoken.
• Page 3 panel 3: The Legion team was headed to Darzyl at the end of last issue. Darzyl is the planet that Vorm claimed to be from when he joined the Legion under false pretenses as Dynamo-Boy (ADV 330).
• Page 5 panel 2: Tenzil (last seen in #50), Evolvo Lad (last seen in LSHv3 #62 during the Magic Wars), Garak of the Glow (last seen in #54), and Cupid (we find out her name later)
• Page 5 panel 3: Ramjet is new
• Page 6: Gas Girl and Duplicate Boy (both last seen in LSHv3 #62 during the Magic Wars), Life Lass (also in #62, but her name had been seen on some documents that she was a general working with King Jonn in the UP Militia back in issue 13)
• Page 7 panel 1: in Interlac it reads “Alert! Khund ship!”
• Page 7 panel 5: the return of the Khundish Legionnaires Firefist (returned from the near-dead), Veilmist, and Flederweb, plus 4-Arm Guy
• Page 8 panel 1: Starfinger III used to be Molock the Merciless, until it was retconned that he was the brother of Lars Hanscom aka Starfinger I (who was murdered by Char Burrane aka Starfinger II, who in turn was murdered by Starfinger III). You’ll recall that Starfinger III hired Persuader to kill Burrane Jr on Quarantine back in issue 13, and hired Sussa Paka to steal Starfinger’s helmet for him in the text pages back in issue 27. Last seen trying to fix the baseball game in issue 37.
• Page 8 panel 3: Starlight (dark hair) and Starbright (red hair) were last seen in LSHv3 49. The Gordanians were usually seen around the New Teen Titans and the Omega Men as they were aligned with the Citadel, the Warlords of Okaara, and the Psions. I think this is their first 30th century appearance.
• Page 12 panel 6: Surprise! It’s not Tenzil after all, it’s Chameleon Chief! He hasn’t been seen since right after Crisis, in LSHv3 21. He also had the power to change the form of other objects including himself (not the same as Chameleon Kid, who was one of the Super-Rejects).
• Page 14 panel 3: That’s Garak in white with the floating green cards
• Page 15 panel 4: Dev-Em returns, last seen in stasis on Leland McCauley’s asteroid in issue 39
• Page 16 panel 3: That’s the original Kryptonian version of Dev-Em, last seen LSHv3 14. What kind of time shenanigans are happening?
• Page 17 panel 2: Lamprey was last seen in LSHv3 #47
• Page 19 panel 5: Cupid is new
• Page 20 panel 3: Ringtoss was new
• Page 20 panel 4: Yera was last seen in LSHv4 Annual 3 at the reunion party
• Page 24: Rond was last seen leaving in a time bubble in issue 53; Circadia Senius was last seen being killed in the aftermath of the moon’s destruction. Something’s going on in the time stream, could it be Zero Hour?
• Rond ran off in the time bubble in issue 53, which took place 11 days ago, but I assume being in the time stream messes with your personal timeline.

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Cutting down the timeline to just the last couple months 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.

• 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); the Legion rebury their dead on Shanghalla, and Wildfire is resurrected there (LSH v4 #50).
• Fri 8/7/95: the SW6 Legionnaires spend the weekend at the Atlantis Dome on New Earth (Legionnaires #7); Tenzil and Eve arrive on Titan; the rest of the group arrives on Talus from Shanghalla (LSH v4 #50).
• Sat 8/8/95: the SW6 Legionnaires encounter the race of Devil-Fish in the Atlantis Dome (Legionnaires #7); Tenzil and Eve get married; Jan almost dies; Kono leaves; Sean arrives on Talus (LSH v4 #50).
• Sun 8/9/95: the SW6 Legionnaires leave the Atlantis dome on New Earth (Legionnaires #7); Tenzil sends out holos of his wedding from the day before (LSH v4 #50).
• 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).
• Wed 9/13/95 (estimated): “Several weeks later” after Tenzil’s wedding, Dawnstar returns to Starhaven; three BIONs attack the Legion on Talus; Universo convinces Relnic and King Jonn that the Legion is helping the Khunds attack UP space (LSH v4 #50). 
• Thu 9/14/95: Cocheta Drisden fails to escape from Takron Galtos, and is moved to Quarantine; Grimbor attacks the team and Ivy’s Li’l Legion on Quarantine trying to grab her (LSH v4 #51).
• Sat 9/16/95: Kent and Celeste arrive on Talus from Quarantine, as Ayla and Brin reminisce and Vi monitors the Khund situation; Mysa tells the crew that since they just defeated Mordru, they have to take on Glorith to keep the balance (LSH v4 #52).
• Sun 9/17/95: Relnic shows Jacques that the Legion is working with the Khunds; Rond rushes off in a Time Bubble; the Legion lands on Baaldur and confronts Glorith, with disastrous consequences to the team; in her mind, Glorith is confronted by the Time Trapper; the UP calls for the Legion’s disbandment (LSH v4 #53). Recovering from the fight with Glorith, several Legionnaires find themselves older or younger, and head for Quarantine to see if Brainiac 5 can reverse the effects (LSH v4 #54).
• Mon 9/18/95: Brainy tests the Legion on Quarantine; Kent and Devlin, who have both been de-aged, stay behind while the others go to Talus (LSH v4 #54).
• ME-Lad, Violet, Dragonmage, Catspaw shot down over Antares II by Khunds (Legionnaires #9). The Proteans want the Legionnaires to go inside a crashed ship, where after defeating more Khunds they find Kid Quantum (Legionnaires #10). Dragonmage helps restore the Soul of Antares, and Andromeda calls HQ to say she’s found them and bringing them all back (Legionnaires #11).
• Invisible Kid and Colossal Boy find a freighter that’s been attacked by Sklarians (Legionnaires #9). Kono arrives to help out (Legionnaires #10).
• Legion tryouts at Metropolis (Legionnaires #9). Inferno helps out in Essen (Legionnaires #10), then goes to Paris where he finds someone has chained a tunnel shut (Legionnaires #11).
• Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Livewire go to Acapulco to quell food riots, and Cosmic Boy is injured by Livewire (Legionnaires #9). More Legionnaires arrive to help (Legionnaires #10). Cos is taken to the medi-center, while Spark, Brainy, Phantom Girl, and Ferro tend to a wounded child with odd powers (Legionnaires #11).
• Tue 9/19/95: The Legion gets captured at Talus and taken to Weber’s World (LSH v4 #54). 
• In Metropolis, Kid Quantum is sworn in, and Computo sends M-E Lad to help Kono with the Sklarians (Legionnaires #12). Kono uses the Grandin Gender-Reversal Disease to turn Tenzil into Tenzi, where they go undercover, but he quickly blows his cover (Legionnaires #13). They manage to signal the rest of the Legionnaires (Legionnaires #14).
• In Acapulco, Invisible Kid arrives to help, but he’s zapped unconscious, while in the Acapulco medi-center , Cosmic Boy nearly dies but Saturn Girl’s telepathy stabilizes him while a jealous Livewire watches (Legionnaires #12). Invisible Kid manages to break free of the mental-energy vortex as Andromeda and Ultra Boy arrive, while Cosmic Boy recovers (Legionnaires #13). Rokk is released, and Saturn Girl links the minds of the team to try to rescue their downed teammates (Legionnaires #14).
• In Paris, anti-alien hysteria picks up, so a team goes there, where they are blasted by a Dominator child who thinks they are attacking her (Legionnaires #12). She teleports them to a prison, but they escape. They find the girl in the sewers, and she sends them to the Archduke's palace to stop the xenophobia, only to find Grimbor instead (Legionnaires #13). They escape Grimbor’s traps and discover that the mayor of the Paris dome has been working with the Sklarians (Legionnaires #14).
• Wed 9/20/95: The Legion is briefly detained on Weber’s World but escape, while the UP officially disbands the Legion; Universo tells Cham and Computo that the Legionnaires aren’t needed to help (LSH v4 #54).
• Sun 9/23/95: The team arrives on Rimbor, and Jo brings a team to an old warehouse but he and Sussa are captured by a rival gang. (LSH v4 #55)
• Wed 9/27/95: Legionnaires start the process of going undercover while hiding out on Rimbor, and Sussa escapes (LSH v4 #54). Universo is looking for the Legion on Rimbor; Jo recruits other gangs to go against the government, while Mysa and Vi sneak into government HQ to find out what’s going on; on Starhaven, Dawnstar undergoes a vision quest (LSH v4 #55); the Legion exposes Khundish interference on Rimbor and escape (LSHv4 #56).
• Thu 9/28/95: The Legion tries and fails to protect Starfinger III from the Khunds, while fighting the Legion Academy, the Khundish ex-Legionnaires, and the mind-controlled Heroes of Lallor; Polestar leaves for New Earth while the rest of the team go to Weber’s World; Valor finds something strange with Dev-Em; Rond Vidar finds something strange in the time stream (LSHv4 #57).