Legion of Super-Heroes v4 Annual 6

Legion of Super-Heroes v4, Annual 6 Reboot » Post-Zero Hour Cover, art by Stuart Immonen, et al Story title Deep Background Previous story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #69: Absolute Power Next story Showcase '95 #6: Learning Curve Publication date April 25, 1995 (one week late) Cover date 1995 Creators Writer(s) Tom McCraw Tom Peyer Mark Waid Penciller Jim Hall Inker Tom Simmons Letterer Tim Harkins Colourist Tom McCraw Editor(s) K.C. Carlson Mike McAvennie (assistant) Cover artist(s) Stuart Immonen Bob Wiacek Synopsis contains content from the Legion Help File. Used with permission.

Shvaughn Erin, the newly-appointed Science Police liasion to the Legion, reluctantly reviews the available information on the team, including the origins of XS and Leviathan and a recent misfortune suffered by Kinetix.

Deep Background

Synopsis

Note: Italicised text refers to the framing sequence.

Shvaughn Erin receives jeers from her fellow Science Police officers over the news that she has been named liaison officer to the Legion of Super-Heroes. She grudgingly begins to read the Legion dossier that she had been given, disliking the thought of being associated with the Legion, who she and her fellow officers think of as pampered celebrities. She skims through the files on Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Triad and Apparition before spotting XS's file and deciding to read about her in greater detail...

XS: Running Scared

XS: Running Scared
Writer	Tom McCraw
Penciller	Stuart Immonen
Inker(s)	Bob Wiacek José Marzan, Jr.
Colourist	Tom McCraw
Letterer(s)	Richard Starkings and Comicraft

Jenni Ognats is the granddaughter of the twentieth-century hero Barry Allen, the second Flash. Her mother and uncle were the super-fast Tornado Twins, who were killed freeing human subjects of the Dominators' genetic experimentation. Her grandmother Iris had hidden Bart, her cousin, from the Dominators, but she and her father were caught and her father was tortured, an act which triggered her own latent super-speed and allowed her to rescue him.

Shvaughn, gaining some measure of admiration for her, then skips past Leviathan's file, as she is contemptuous of him for leaving the Science Police to join the Legion, and skims through the files on Invisible Kid, Chameleon, Brainiac 5 and Spark. Seeing Kinetix's file, she decides to look into it in more detail...

Kinetix: From Dawn to Darkness

Kinetix: From Dawn to Darkness
Writer(s)	Tom Peyer
Penciller	Alan Davis
Inker	Mark Farmer
Colourist	Tom McCraw
Letterer	Pat Prentice

Kinetix wakes from a dream where she cured a world, to her present reality - an archaeological dig with her teammate Shrinking Violet, where she aims to find new power-objects to strengthen her abilities. She explained to Shrinking Violet that she became obsessed with such power since using a magical artefact to cure her mother of a deadly illness, and how she later discovered that she can be energized by other magical things, such as an energy-pool which unleashed her power to begin with, and thus help others like her mother.

However, once Zoe finds the Star of Akkos, it drains her power rather than empowering her, and she is left shivering on the hillside.

Shvaughn sympathizes with Kinetix and proceeds to skim through the files on Shrinking Violet and Andromeda and then once again skips over Leviathan's file to read about the Legion's support staff, equipment and the United Planets instead...

Equipment/Supporting cast feature

(Untitled)
Writer	Tom McCraw
Artist	Eliot Brown ("Illustrations and schematics")

Afterward, she discovers that the only thing she has not read is Leviathan's file, and she grudgingly reads it...

Leviathan in Greater Good

Leviathan in Greater Good
Writer(s)	Mark Waid
Penciller	Mike Collins
Inker	Ron Boyd
Colourist	Tom McCraw
Letterer	Tim Harkins

Leviathan was at first reluctant to leave the Science Police, recalling his close friendship with fellow officer Gigi Cusimano and the Science Police mission during which he received his powers from a falling meteor, but, after he saw during a hostage situation that his commander was more interested in using him for his own promotion than for the safety of the people, he quit the Science Police and defiantly reported for his Legion duty.

Shvaughn, impressed by this, reads through the Legion dossier in greater detail, and , after she finishes, she tells one of her scornful comrades that she is proud to be associated with the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Pin-up credits

Note: Credits refer to Penciller/inker

(Pinups incorporated into "Deep Background")
Colourist	Tom McCraw

• Cosmic Boy: Jim Hall/Tom Simmons
• Saturn Girl: Chris Sprouse/Jason Martin
• Triad: Adam Hughes
• Apparition/Inferno/Spider-Girl: Lee Moder/Pam Eklund
• XS: Stuart Immonen
• Invisible Kid: Jason Armstrong/Ron Boyd
• Chameleon: Chris Renaud/Rob Leigh
• Brainiac 5: Matt Haley/Tom Simmons
• Spark: Jeff Moy/W.C. Carani
• Kinetix: Mike Huddleston/Jason Martin
• Shrinking Violet: Ron Boyd
• Andromeda: Paul Pelletier/Joe Rubinstein
• Leviathan: Colleen Doran

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See also

• Legion Publication History - Other issues published (late) 1994-1996
• Legion Publication History - Other issues of Legion of Super-Heroes v4
• Post-Zero Hour Chronology

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