RIP: Jason Pearson

I'm late in posting this: former Legion artist Jason Pearson passed away in December 2022, though his family withheld the information until January. 

Perhaps best known for his work on the Dark Horse series "Body Bags", Pearson started his art career on the Legion.

Via CBR:

Pearson's first regular assignment in comic books was working on Legion of Super-Heroes in the final year of Keith Giffen's epic run on the series, along with scripters Tom and Mary Bierbaum, and inker Al Gordon. The fascinating thing about this early work, though, is that Giffen famously used a nine-panel grid on Legion of Super-Heroes, and so in retrospect it is amazing seeing an artist like Pearson, whose work seemed built for splash pages, working in a nine-panel grid in each issue. He made it work, though, but I imagine that Pearson's splash page abilities played at least a small role in Giffen's final issue of his run (which features the destruction of Earth) being depicted in illustrated text pages...

The run finished in late-1992, which was a heady time for the comic book industry, especially for young hot talent like Pearson, only 22 years old at the time. There was DC, of course, but there was also Marvel calling...

In his blog, "It's OK, I'm a Senator", Tom Bierbaum mentioned Pearson a number of times:

• Catspaw was actually created by Jason Pearson during a Legion summit, and the visual was so nice there was no reason not to use her, though, admittedly, we never had a lot in mind to do with her. ... At one point he and we were trying to work out a "Legionnaires" fill-in that would have given more of her background, but  we didn't start thinking about that possibility until our time there was almost up.  Basically, Catspaw was just a woman on Earth when the Dominators were secretly nabbing people and experimenting on them.  
• Someone asked "Did you change the storyline mid-stream in regards to Bounty?  Her character seemed to change quite drastically from Giffen to Pearson." Tom replied: In fact, when Jason Pearson was pencilling the book, Keith was still plotting, so changes in the character were probably largely coincidental when pencillers changed.  As with Kent and Celeste, Al Gordon is your best source for info on Bounty, since he was the one supplying most of the ideas (he was, in fact, the creator of Kent and Celeste). But I don't recall that there was any really changes in the plans for Bounty. Probably what we ended up revealing in the Pearson-pencilled issues was different than what many readers were anticipating. And I don't think we ever took time to really explore the ideas and implications of the Bounty entity.  I remember Mary and I kicking around ideas for a story that explored the Bounty entity and showed it possessing people besides Dawnstar, but we never got the chance to pursue it.
• LSH 21: Starting with our back pages in #21, Jason Pearson began his stint penciling the Legion based on Keith’s layouts.  I don’t recall for sure, but I’m guessing these back pages during the “Quiet Darkness” were Jason’s tryout and he came through impressively.  While it was an adjustment to switch from Keith’s very distinctive style to Jason’s, I think the switch was worthwhile.  While Jason probably didn’t capture quite the grittiness and mundane detail that really set the tone for Keith’s Legion, Jason’s cleaner style probably made the storytelling clearer.  And most importantly, the arrangement kept the book a lot closer to a regular schedule, with much less interruption for fill-in issues.  That allowed us to tell the upcoming “Terra Mosaic” storyline in a much more consistent, uninterrupted manner than had been the case for our earlier arcs (which I guess were formally titled “Five Years Later” and “The Legion of Super-Heroes”).
• LSH 29: [Sade is] a character Jason Pearson created, but I don’t quite remember how exactly her ability was supposed to work. She could essentially disappear and blink back in somewhere else.
• LSH 32: I should mention that I really like the Jason Pearson cover of this issue. It shows a group of five Legionnaires being blinded by a flash of light (the explosion of the chambers), with the shadow of the five characters filling most of the cover. Most effectively, the shadow of Devlin O’Ryan’s hand is cast across his face. Really a nice imaginative piece by Jason.
• LSH 35: This is the issue where young SW6 Sun Boy confronts what’s left of the original Sun Boy, whose powers are burning him alive.  It’s an impactful scene that’s depicted on this issue’s cover, probably one of Jason Pearson’s best.
• LSH 38: The Sandman character Death makes a cameo when the destruction comes, as the planet is lost in a blinding flash.  Jason Pearson does powerful work in this issue and the two-page spread that shows the actual destruction really has a lot of impact.

Pearson only drew a dozen issues of the Legion book (22-24, 26-30, 32, 34, 36, 38), plus 11 covers (26-30, 32-36, and the 2995 Sourcebook) and some of the Skybox trading cards featuring Legionnaires. Here are his covers:

Legionnaires #14 annotations: Grim Reality

     Annotations for Legionnaires #14:

• On sale 3/15/94
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/31690.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 695 (Feb 7, 2022)
• Timeline: Sept 19, 2995

Notes:

• Not sure who that is silhouetted against the moon.
• I got nothing – no callbacks to old stories or notes to mention.
• Next issue is the Bierbaums’ final issue on the series, so these storylines will all wrap up. Starting with issue 16, we start to see the Zero Hour time shenanigans start to kick in.

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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).

Legionnaires #13 annotations: There's a New Girl in Town

    Annotations for Legionnaires #13:

• On sale 2/8/94
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/31019.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 690 (Jan. 3, 2022)
• Timeline: Sept 19, 2995

Notes:

• Cover: Tenzil uses Spooge toothpaste
• Picks up immediately after last issue
• Page 11: this can't be the next morning, unless the pages are out of order, because on page 14 we see the Legionnaires in Paris right after escaping, as seen on page 5.
• Page 18: The chains on the tunnel doors last issue should have signaled that Grimbor was involved. We last saw Grimbor in LSH v4 #51 on Quarantine (which was on 9/14, and today is 9/19), but he was captured and being led away to Takron Galtos. It remains to be seen how he escaped, and how he got involved with this Paris group since this has been going on for longer than just a few days. Earlier, we saw him in armor with shoulderpads, now he's in the trendy 17th century garb.
• Page 19: Kono and Tenzi have left Metropolis for Sigma Lockwood asteroid (named for late Apa-LSH member Robert Lockwood), and Tenzi spends "hours" on waste detail, so their whole ordeal must be the next day (9/20)

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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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).

Legionnaires #12 annotations: Earth for Humans!

  Annotations for Legionnaires #12:

• On sale 1/11/94
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 684 (Nov 21, 2021)
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/30504.html
• Timeline: Sept 19, 2995

Notes:

• Page 3 panel 1: Last issue, KQ was with the group coming back from Antares II, so this is about a day later.
• Page 4 panel 4: Inferno was called back from Paris to Metropolis between page 2 panel 4 and page 4 panel 4. Tom Bierbaum had mentioned in IOKIAS that they were having to script different scenes for different artists and some things got mixed up, this looks like one of them.
• Page 6 panel 3: Colossal Boy was last seen with Invisible Kid in space back in issue 9. 
• Page 7 panel 4: it almost looks like this is right after Brainy’s team gets zapped last issue, but remember this is a day later.
• Page 8 panel 5: Chains around the tunnel doors – could it be Grimbor?
• In LSH #54, we saw KQ already on Earth with Cham and Computo, so he had to get back from Antares II and rejoin the Legionnaires (as seen in this issue). That suggests that he was on Antares two days ago and he got back to Earth one day ago and then rejoined the Legionnaires. Through math and some educated guessing, issues 9-11 (which all took place on the same day) took place on the day that the senior Legion left Quarantine to go to Talus in LSH #54. Issue 12 takes place the same day that the senior Legion made it to Talus and got captured, then left for Weber’s World, also in #54. (I’m assuming one day of travel between worlds.) My estimate is that this issue takes place on Tuesday, 9/19/2995.

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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).
  • 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).
  • In Paris, anti-alien hysteria picks up, so a team goes there, where they rescue a Talokian but are blasted by a Dominator child who thinks they are attacking her (Legionnaires #12).
• 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).
• Wed 9/27/95: Legionnaires start the process of going undercover while hiding out on Rimbor, but Jo gets captured (LSH v4 #54)

Legionnaires #11 annotations: Welcome Back Kid Quantum

  Annotations for Legionnaires #11:

• On sale 12/14/93
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 681 (Oct 31, 2021)
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/30224.html
• Timeline: Sept 18, 2995

Notes:

• Cover: Tom Bierbaum complained that seeing Kid Quantum in costume spoiled the reveal that he would survive and join the team.
• As a reminder, the last time we saw Kid Quantum was in LSH v4 #39 when he and the team were rescued from McCauley’s compound, about 5 months ago (in March 2995, Legion comic time). The Protean “Soul of Antares” history was from #33.
• In the revised 5YL timeline, Kid Quantum joined early in the team’s history, in between Chameleon Boy/Colossal Boy/Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5/Laurel Gand (August 2973)
• He was killed in July 16, 2974, after a year in the Legion, prior to Shrinking Violet and Matter-Eater Lad joining, so neither of them knew him personally. Tenzil and Violet would have recognized the Antareans as Protys though, as they knew Proty I & II.
• The events of this issue conclude the day that started with issues 9-10. We won't find out until LSH v4 #54 that something that happens in that issue retroactively sets issues 9-11 on Sept 18, 2995.
• Page 14 panel 2: Paris restaurant DuGarm’s named for legendary Interlacker Keating DuGarm. 
• Page 18 panel 2: last issue, they first said “location unknown” and later in the same issue they said it was Antares II. From the impression I got, the ship was shot down while they were returning to their home planet but they never made it, apparently it really was their home world all along.

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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). 
• Mon 9/18/95: 
• 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).

Legionnaires #10 annotations: Little White Lies (or: "Stragedy")

 Annotations for Legionnaires #10:

• On sale 11/16/93
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 677 (Oct 4, 2021)
• Timeline: Sept 18, 2995

Notes:

• Page 5 panel 2: Both Tenzil and Violet should have recognized the Protean (or Antarean) as a member of the same race as Proty I & II, who they had met
• Page 17 panel 4: Paris restaurant DuGarm’s named for legendary Interlacker Keating DuGarm. Also, read the room, Dirk – you’re talking about going to a fancy Paris restaurant while you’re helping out in an area where people have no food.
• Page 18 panel 1: back on page 1, they said “Location: Unknown”, but now it says Antares II. Antares II is the homeworld of the protean creatures, which I guess the writers didn’t want to reveal too early.
• Page 19 panel 1: I hope “Stragedy” is deliberate on Tenzil’s part
• Page 22: last time we saw Kid Quantum was in LSH v4 #39 when he and the team were rescued from McCauley’s compound, about 5 months ago (in March 2995, Legion comic time). 
• Where does KQ fit into continuity to begin with?
• In the revised 5YL timeline in the 2995 Sourcebook, Kid Quantum joined early in the team’s history, in between Chameleon Boy/Colossal Boy/Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5/Laurel Gand (August 2973)
• He was seemingly killed on July 16, 2974, after a year in the Legion, prior to Shrinking Violet/Sun Boy (July 28) and Matter-Eater Lad (Dec 24) joining, so neither of them knew him personally. (Nor, of course, did the new SW6 members Catspaw and Dragonmage)
• As a reminder, the Legionnaires were "cloned" in 2978.
• My best guess, after reading ahead through #12 and LSH #54 is that issues 9-11 all take place on the same day, which is 9/18/2995.

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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.

• 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).
• Mon 9/18/95: 
• 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). 
• 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)
• 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). 

LSH v4 #52 annotations: Wolf Tales

Annotations for LSH v4 #52:

• On sale 11/02/93
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 676 (Sept 27, 2021)
• Timeline: Sept 16, 2995

Notes:

• Page 2: Timber Wolf is in his feral-looking state, so this probably takes place either between SBOY 197 (when TW got his new look) and 216 (after which KK went back in time) or SLSH 246 (KK’s return from the 20th century at the tail end of Earthwar) and 283 (issue before TW had surgery to restore his face). Light Lass has red hair here, I know she was a blonde for a time so that would help narrow it down.
• Page 3 panel 3: Do artists really notice that they’re drawing Karate Kid’s collar too high or him to have any peripheral vision at all?
• Pages 5-6: this is an adaptation of Lone Wolf’s intro story in ADV 327 (Hamilton/Forte, Dec 1964)
• Pages 9-10: adaptation of LSH v2 289
• Page 11 panel 4: is that Amethyst speaking to Mysa?
• Page 15 panel 3: Dr Regulus has gotten the pouches, armor, and shoulderpads upgrade too
• Pages 15-18: this is the post-Bierbaum version of Black Dawn - FINALLY!!!
• Page 19: adaptation of LSH v2 #295
• Page 20: back to ADV 327 again
• Page 22 panel 3: 
• Elia – Dominator homeworld – so now we FINALLY learn who attacked the Dominators at the end of the war, forcing them to retreat from Earth. We saw this in #32 but we never learned who invaded Elia.
• Grykk – World on which Colossal Boy battled a giant who terrorized a city of normal-sized beings (ADV 301).
• Zerox – aka Sorceror’s World, currently destroyed
• Page 24: “special thanks to Jerry Steinhelper” – I ran across Jerry’s name in one of the Legion FB groups and asked him about this. He replied:
• For the Charlotte Con, I brought my entire Legion collection with me (only missing Adv #307 and the 1975 calendar).  Waid, Carlson, etc. went through them  in the hotel room while we graded the trivia quiz.
  
  Months go by and then Tom, knowing I had very easy access to every book, called me up and told me what he was planning for the issue and asked me to write a quick summary of Timber Wolf from Adv #327 to the then present. 
  
  I reread every panel there was of T-Wolf and instead of giving him the expected paragraph or two, I sent him a fully detailed biography on the life and times of Brinn Londo.  If memory serves it might have been 10 pages long. 
  
  Tom never once even hinted at my name going in the credit box.  That was a complete surprise to me that Wednesday when it came out.
  
  Thanks again Tom McCraw .

OK, now we have to discuss Black Dawn a bit. 

In IOKIAS, Tom Bierbaum says “Black Dawn:  In a nutshell, Dr. Regulus went insane and was going to cause the sun to go off in a nova-like explosion.  Wildfire saves the day and sacrifices himself.  We don't want to give many more details because it was a heck of a story that maybe someday, somehow will get told.  See the 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook for a few more details.” What we knew coming into this issue from #12 and #28 was that during Black Dawn, Timber Wolf is seriously injured, Wildfire is lost, and Starfinger II (Char Burrane) and the Khunds are somehow involved, although in this issue's retelling, the Khunds are nowhere in sight (and Regulus has been 90s-ified with armor, shoulderpads, and pouches).

So let's go to the Sourcebook (and don't pay attention to the fact that the details of this tremendously important event weren't told in the comics themselves, only in an ancillary book that was developed for a game - but I digress). 

EXCERPT: Legion Incident Report: Black Dawn. 

Filed By: Unofficial Deputy Leader Brek Bannin, Aug. 13, 2991

LEGIONNAIRE ENGAGED: Timber Wolf.

INCIDENT: Failing to quickly obey Sun Boy's warnings to get back to shelter, Timber Wolf was caught partly exposed when the radiation swept past, apparently giving him severe radiation exposure. Decontamination procedures were started right away aboard the cruiser. and we took him as quickly as we could to Medicus One. We got there about 11:40 a.m., about 20 minutes after Timber Wolf was hurt. It looked like he suffered very bad radiation burns and maybe some mutation. We don't know his chances of making it yet. We also don't know of any next of kin. We've told all the ex-Legionnaires about Brin's condition and Marella Tao. Earthgov won't let us get the get-well messages people are sending, though we think there are hundreds of thousands of them.

EXCERPT: "Black Dawn Overview," Interstellar Press, page 1, Aug. 12, 2991.

… The exact fate of Legionnaire Drake Burroughs, Wildfire, remains clouded in the wake of the Black Dawn tragedy. In a prepared statement, Legion spokesman Brek Bannin referred to Burroughs as having paid "the ultimate price" to save the system but added that his death has not been confirmed nor has been his exact status …

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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.

• 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).
• Mon 9/19/95: 
• ME-Lad, Violet, Dragonmage, Catspaw shot down over Antares II by Khunds (Legionnaires #9). 
• Invisible Kid and Colossal Boy find a freighter that’s been attacked by Sklarians (Legionnaires #9). 
• Legion tryouts at Metropolis (Legionnaires #9). 
• Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Livewire go to Acapulco to quell food riots, and Cosmic Boy is injured by Livewire (Legionnaires #9).

LSH v4 #50 annotations: The Final Bierbaum issue

    Annotations for LSH v4 #50

• On sale 10/05/93
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/24373.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 671 (August 23, 2021)
• Timeline: August 6-9 and (roughly) Sept 13, 2995

Notes:

• This is the final issue of LSH written by the Bierbaums, though they still have 6 issues of Legionnaires left.
• This issue came out only two weeks after #49 for some reason; from August to December they got 7 issues in 5 months and had just 2-3 weeks between issues, but then after that went back to the regular schedule. The publishing schedules for Legionnaires and Valor did not change in that time. Zero Hour wasn’t until after issue 63, so they had a year to roll up the series, I don’t see why they’d add two more issues to a series they were going to reboot in a year anyway.
• Pages 1-2 were written by Tom McCraw, who wrote the second half of the story (from page 27-on)
• Page 1: Recall that J’onn was shown to be in the 30th century when he appeared at the wedding of Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel on Mars back in SBOY 200, and he was just an Easter egg by artist Dave Cockrum (along with Tars Tarkas of Barsoom, from the Edgar Rice Burroughs “John Carter, Warlord of Mars” series). He did not appear in the 30th century again until this storyline, but he was said to have met the Legion of another timeline in the DC 1M Martian Manhunter book. In retrospect, he’s one of the few direct links to the 20th century DCU that Giffen and the Bierbaums had – I can only think of Mon-El/Valor and Darkseid off the top of my head (plus the clone of Lobo).
• Page 1 panel 3: you can read “KE” in interlac behind Rokk. This doesn’t match up with any known person buried on Shanghalla (Condo Arlik/Chemical King, Andrew Nolan/Ferro Lad, Lyle Norg/Invisible Kid, Luornu Durgo/Triplicate Girl, Val Armorr/Karate Kid, Pol Krinn/Magnetic Kid, Blok, Dirk Morgna/Sun Boy, Leeta-87, Braino of Myrnah, Hate Face, Mog Yagor of Vasmeer, Nimbok of Vaalor, and Beast Boy of Lallor). However, we have never seen the graves of Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superboy or Drake Burroughs/Wildfire.
• Page 3: Tenzil left Tartarus no earlier than 8/6, so figuring a day of travel, this is on 8/7
• Page 7 panel 5: That’s Troy “Tyroc” Stewart that Sean is talking to
• Page 8: in the IOKIAS notes, Tom says that the team is just returning from the Mordru Arises storyline 
• They spent some time on Shanghalla reburying their dead on 8/6
• Tenzil arrives on Titan and the others arrive on Talus on 8/7
• Page 9 panel 5: Laurel is conveniently forgetting about how she kissed Brainy a couple issues back when she thought they were going to die.
• Page 11: this is the Earthgov Artifact J-1-WRTZ container that Sussa Paka stole waaaaay back in issue 27 (3/26/95), but we’ve never found out what it was.
• Page 18 panel 2: Tenzil has been in the Senate for 13 years, which means he was first elected in 2982 (he was drafted on 9/16/81). Note that 2982 is the year that started with Dawnstar joining and ended prior to their battle with Omega.
• Page 22: Sean Erin left New Earth on page 8 and arrives on Pasnic on page 22. That’s fast! This must be some time on 8/8.
• Page 25 panel 1: Tenzil and Eve arrived on Titan on 8/7, and she had 24 hours to get married, so the wedding was on 8/8. Holos probably sent out on 8/9.
• Page 25 panel 6: the traditional wedding sticks are sticks with statues of yourself at the end, as seen on the cover of ADV 337.
• Page 25 panel 8: the Planetary Chance Machine was last seen in issue 41 when the SW6 Legionnaires were refurbishing the old Clubhouse (June 11, 2995)
• Page 26: this is the end of the Bierbaum chapter, next page starts the section written by Tom McCraw

• Page 27: several weeks later – back in issue 48, I estimated that “several weeks earlier” was 5 weeks, so let’s use that here too. In this issue, Tenzil sent out his wedding holos around 8/9, though the Legionnaires on Colu story probably took place on 8/10-12. However, Zero Hour was said to have happened on Sept 1st in the 20th century, although I suppose that doesn’t formally constrain things in the 30th century.
• Page 31 panel 1: Kent and Celeste are listed as “on assignment” (they were both last seen on Quarantine fighting zombies in issue 48). With Kono also gone, there are none of the Giffen/Gordon/Bierbaums new characters left except for Devlin.
• Page 42: One of the very first things the new team does is bring back Wildfire, who was arguably one of the most popular Legionnaires and who the Giffen/Bierbaum team refused to bring back
• Page 43 panel 1: Note that there are 3 BIONs here
• Page 47 panel 3: who’s that watching the Legionnaires?

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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.

• 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).  

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

   Annotations for LSH v4 #49

• On sale 9/21/93
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/24373.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 668 (August 2, 2021)
• 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).

Legionnaires #8 annotations: Brainy’s Leaving the Legionnaires!

   Annotations for Legionnaires #8

• On sale 9/14/93
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/29206.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 665 (July 12, 2021)
• Timeline: August 10-12, 2995

Notes:

• Page 4 panel 2: Metaire is shown to be the capital of Colu, while it was said to be Colu City back in SBOY 227

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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.

• 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).
• 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).

LSH v4 #48 annotations: Mordru Triumphant

  Annotations for LSH v4 #48

• On sale 8/24/93
• It's OK, I'm a Senator: https://itsokimasenator.livejournal.com/23918.html
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 664 (July 5, 2021)
• Timeline: August 2-4, 2995

Notes:

• Page 10 panel 8: The Heroes of Lallor were last seen in LSH v3 #62 as a group, here we see Duplicate Boy and Life Lass in the foreground, and Gas Girl as a cloud and Evolvo Lad with the big head.
• We learned via one of the Omnicom pages back in LSH v4 #8 (Laurel’s story) that Somi Gan was a Colonel on Lallor in the United Resistance Militia to King Jonn’s High Commander, but here she is back in costume.
• Pages 21-22: Tom said that he and Mary were surprised by the presence of these pages. “Then on page 21, we get two new pages they surprised us with that writes the Khundish Legionnaires out of the Legion and shows that Firefist isn’t actually dead. I’m grateful they let us dialogue those pages because we were at least able to come up with some explanations and make it all a little more consistent with the rest of the story than it might otherwise have been.”
• Jonn Jonzz is present because Dave Cockrum drew him as an Easter Egg on Mars when Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel got married, back in SBOY 200.

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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.

• 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).
• 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).