What if Superboy met the Legion on Facebook?

Today I present the Omnicom Players presentation of: Adventure Comics #247 as if it took place on Facebook. Yes, I know Facebook puts the most recent event at the top, but it reads so much easier this way from top to bottom. And this was put together right before their most recent makeover, so just deal with it.

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Lightning Boy wrote on Clark Kent's Wall: "Hello there, Superboy!"

Cosmic Boy wrote on Superboy's Wall: "Hi, Clark Kent!"

Saturn Girl wrote on Superboy's Wall: "Say hi to the Kents for me when you get home!"

Cosmic Boy wrote on Superboy's Wall: "LOL pwn3d, we're from the 30th century, so we already know your sekrit identity!"

Superboy is now friends with Lightning Boy, Cosmic Boy, and Saturn Girl via the People You May Know tool

Superboy updated his Top Friends list

Superboy is crashing through the time barrier in a Time Bubble and sailing 1000 years into the future. W00t!

Superboy, Lightning Boy, Cosmic Boy, and Saturn Girl have left the 20th Century network

Superboy, Lightning Boy, Cosmic Boy, and Saturn Girl have joined the 30th Century network

Superboy has updated the Cities I've Visited map.

Superboy finds future Smallville is frickin' HUGE!

Superboy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Boy, and Cosmic Boy added The Nine Worlds Ice Cream Parlor to the Where I've Been application

Superboy went to school and helped teach a history class about me

Superboy tagged Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl in a Note, "25 Random Things About Me"

Superboy added The Super Hero Clubhouse to the Where I've Been application

Cosmic Boy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "We'll let Superboy join, but he has to beat me, Lightning Boy, and Saturn Girl in a competition."

Cosmic Boy used the TV Trouble Finder application and found a Sunken Statue

Superboy wonders how the Statue of the Unknown Spaceman sank in the ocean

Saturn Girl wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "No way your super-powers are going to beat my super-telepathy!"

Superboy used the Telescopic Vision application and found a runaway atomic robot

A Denizen of the Deep Sea gave Saturn Girl a Statue of the Unknown Spaceman

Superboy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "No fair, I was distracted!"

Cosmic Boy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "Sorry, you snooze you lose! To a Girl! LOL!"

Cosmic Boy used the TV Trouble Finder application and found a Forest Fire

Superboy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "No way I lose this one!"

Superboy used the Telescopic Vision application and found a falling satellite

Cosmic Boy used his magnetic powers to pull down a flock of iron meteors into a convenient lake right next to the forest fire

Cosmic Boy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "So where were you, n00b?"

Superboy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "STFU!"

Saturn Girl wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "Dude, you suck!"

Cosmic Boy used the TV Trouble Finder application and found a space cruise liner with a leaking fuel tank

Superboy used the Telescopic Vision application and found an escaped Neptunian invisible eagle

Superboy got an iceberg and cooled the air around the city so he could find the bird. Damn, I forgot about my super-hearing and infra-red vision!

Lightning Boy added the Electric Sky Writing application

Lightning Boy gave the message "Your fuel tank is leaking! Return for repairs!" to The Nova Express with Electric Sky Writing

Cosmic Boy wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "That's your third EPIC FAIL, Superboy! Get out of here, you reject!"

Superboy joined the group You Know You've Been Rejected by the Legion When...

Superboy wonders how I'll tell my friends in Smallville that I flunked out of the Super Hero Club?

Saturn Girl wrote on The Legion of Super-Heroes Wall: "Ha ha, j/k Superboy! We made you fail for the lulz, we were hazing you! Sucka!"

Superboy joined the group The Legion of Super-Heroes

Cosmic Boy used the TV Trouble Finder application and found a broken cosmic lamp in South Pole City

Superboy added South Pole City to the Where I've Been application

Superboy fixed the lamp with a magnetic meteor and warmed the city with heat lightning

Saturn Girl gave Superboy a Super-Hero Number One medal

Superboy has left the 30th Century network

Superboy has joined the 20th Century network

Superboy returned home

Inspired by Sarah Schmelling's Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition), which inspired DeeDee Baldwin's Austenbook, which inspired Tara Delsomino's Battlestarbook, which inspired Erica Grace Carlson & Heather Day's The Aeneid.

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Previously on April Fool's Day:
2008: Easiest Legion Quiz Ever and Mordru's Vaudeville Career
2007: Legion cartoon season 2 episode list
2006: Animated Legion exclusive news

James Marsters, on being Brainiac (5)

IGN has an interview with James Marsten (Spike on "Buffy", Brainiac on "Smallville") in which he discusses his role as Brainiac and the possible evolution of the character into Brainiac 5 of the Legion. Note that he doesn't say that he's going to portray Brainy, just that it'd be a different take on the character for him.

IGN: It's been funny on Smallville this season, because Brainiac has been a presence, but you haven't been a presence unfortunately.

Marsters: [Laughs] They're sick of paying me so much money. They were very generous about offering me some money up front and something told me, "Yes, we're going to work with you James for a good amount of time..." But if you notice, it's been like that a lot. They talk about the character, but... It's a good group of people, but I think that may be over.

IGN: Ah, so you don't think there's much of a possibility of returning?

Marsters: You know what, who knows? That series just seems to be immortal. It's done so well. So if the future is long, I'm certainly open to it. If they need me, I'd love to come say hi to everybody. But at the same time, they may not need me. They're very imaginative about how they do things.

IGN: The last time they had your character, in some form, they sent him off to the future to become Brianiac 5 – the good character from the Legion of the Superheroes.

Marsters: Oh, cool!

IGN: Yeah, it seemed like there was a door there for you to come back in a very different way.

Marsters: That's cool! [Laughs]

IGN: [Laughs] I might be throwing you a curve ball here, but would that be something that would be fun for you, to play such a different take on Brainiac?

Marsters: Oh yeah. I think that would be wonderful. I would also like to go back and be evil for them too. It's fun to be evil! It's fun to play a robot who doesn't really care and who's only pretending to. But it would be fun to play a robot who actually did care at the same time...

A Couple Other Things

Newsarama has a preview of "Superman" #686 (out this week), starring Mon-El.

Following the startling events of "New Krypton" and the shocking occurrence in the Phantom Zone, Earth finds itself without its greatest protector! Luckily, Metropolis still has a few heroes, like Mon-El and the Guardian. But after years of knowing nothing but the solitude of the Phantom Zone, how will Mon-El acclimate himself to society? And the recently returned Guardian has his hands full with his new position in the Science Police. How can they fill Superman's shoes? They'd better figure it out fast, because dangerous mysteries abound which will carry all the way into 2010! The highly acclaimed writer-artist team of James Robinson and Renato Guedes continue their run on SUPERMAN with or without The Man of Steel!

Also, Murray sent me something last week which I forgot about in my inbox. This item from a Geoff Johns interview on Blackest Night:

NRAMA: In Adventure Comics #0, Scar says something about Superboy. Are we going to see that in Blackest Night?

GJ: If you want to follow that, you should read Legion of 3 Worlds #4. And then Adventure Comics #1.

NRAMA: Does Lex Luthor play into that? Because Lex Luthor was going to play a part in Legion of 3 Worlds, right?

GJ: No, you saw a scene where the Legionaires went back in time in the last issue and got a strand of his hair. But that's it.

Well, Luthor did appear in this ad from last summer (to the right of the Time Trapper):