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(Just more than a shell. The Roll Call, etc needs filled out, and the synopsis (from the Legion of the Damned) page needs revised, linkified and expanded to fit a standalone page.)
 
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==Legion of the Damned Part Two: Damned if we do!==
 
==Legion of the Damned Part Two: Damned if we do!==
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Chameleon relates the Blight's arrival at Earth to his four teammates, where their teleportation tendrils crashed through the attempts of the Legion, Science Police, Amazers and [[Workforce]] to prevent them touching down and "entwined" Earth in less than five hours; before the Blight themselves emerged when victory was already assured. Many were believed killed in the process, but soon reappeared as the Blight's slaves, known as the Blighted. The others are shocked, but confirm for Chameleon that, with the Stargates down, it took them a month to return from [[Legionnaires 78|their mission to rescue a freighter]]. Chameleon then points out the Blights' interment camps - and their headquarters, the Stem.
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[[Chameleon/Post-Zero Hour|Chameleon]] relates the [[Blight]]'s arrival at Earth to his four newly-arrived teammates, [[Cosmic Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Cosmic Boy]], [[Brainiac 5.1]], [[Apparition]] and [[Monstress]]:
  
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In the Stem itself, those captured in the attack in part one are being processed after interrogation. XS, as the only metahuman among them, is sent deep for power-tapping as one of the humans is killed by a Blight member.
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===Flashback 1: One Month Ago===
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Shortly after they'd [[Legionnaires 78|left to check on a drifting freighter]], a trade convoy had been coming through [[Stargate KF1122]], the main Earth [[Stargate]] just outside the Moon's orbit, when immense ribbons of energy, the Blight's  teleportation tendrils obliterated them, then smashed crashed through the combined attempts of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes/Post-Zero Hour|Legion]], [[Science Police/Post-Zero Hour|Science Police]], A[[mazers]] and [[Workforce]] to prevent them touching down and soon "entwined" Earth - in total, taking less than five hours - before the Blight themselves emerged when victory was already assured, recognised by [[Sensor]] as [[Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files 2|the creatures who destroyed]] a Lycidian Moon. Many were believed killed in the process, but soon reappeared as the Blight's slaves, who the remaining people came to call the [[Blight#Blighted|Blighted]]. He finishes by telling them about [[R.J. Brande|President Brande's]] resistance movement.
  
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Apparition dreams of her and her three teammates' arrival back at Earth, her frustration at being seperated from Ultra Boy, and how, on discovering the [[Legion Outpost|Outpost]] abandoned in Earth orbit, they had only had time to find Chameleon's flight ring before realising they had triggered a booby-trap. As she remembers the explosion knocking their cruiser out of control, she wakes to find Chameleon hadn't slept, traumatised by the previous month.
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===Present===
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Brainiac 5.1 is briefly absorbed by the old puzzle about what had destroyed the moon, but the others are shocked, and Monstress tells him to shut up. She asks about [[Live Wire]], [[Saturn Girl/Post-Zero Hour|Saturn Girl]] and [[Gates]], and Chameleon responds that Gates was missing, Saturn Girl had been taken three weeks earlier, and Live Wire was "destroyed this afternoon". Apparition then asks about [[Ultra Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Ultra Boy]] and is told that he was one of the Blighted. He then asks what happened to them to cause them to be missing for a month, and B5.1 confirm for Chameleon that, with the Stargates down, it took them a month to return from [[Legionnaires 78|their mission to rescue a freighter]].
  
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XS, regaining full consciousness thanks to her accelerated metabolism, is carried down the Stem in a bubble of sap by three Blighted. As this happens though, she hears a small telepathic voice, who can't remember its' name, telling her to escape. She then sees several Legionnaires hung like slabs of meat, but, as it grows louder, she begins to recognise the telepathic "voice" moments before she sees the source - [[Saturn Girl/Post-Zero Hour|Saturn Girl]]. Immediately, she bursts out, grabs Saturn Girl from her prison, and sprints away at super-speed. The Blight look for them, but Jenni, forced to stop, vibrates them invisibly until they pass. Once they are gone, however, the exhausted and defeated Saturn Girl tells Jenni to go without her, and roughly implants what she had learned of the Blight into XS' brain before collapsing.
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Cosmic Boy then says they knew something was wrong, with no Stargates and no communications, "and after what happened to us at the [[Legion Outpost/Post-Zero Hour|Outpost]]...". He asks what Chameleon means by "taken", and Chameleon then points out the Blights' interment camps - and their headquarters, the [[Stem]].
  
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Meanwhile, Cos' team are approaching the Stem, when a group of Blighted fly out, looking for them.
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In the Stem itself, those captured in the attack in part one are being processed after interrogation. The Blighted [[Umbra]] points out the sedated XS, the only metahuman among them, which leads to her being sent deep for power-tapping. Half-conscious, she registers only a dull feeling of revulsion and horror as one of the humans is killed by a Blight member, the others are sent for "final processing", and she is sent deep for power-sapping.
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===Flashback 2: Outpost===
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Apparition dreams of her and her three teammates' arrival back at Earth, her violent frustration at being separated from Ultra Boy, which drove her teammates - already stretched by spending days at a time calculating system-to-system hops without Stargates, adding up to a month in cramped conditions - nuts.
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When they finally arrived in the [[Sol System/Post-Zero Hour|Sol System]], they boarded the Legion Outpost - oddly, still in Earth orbit as when they'd left, rather than its' usual position - and found it deserted, but with a strange vegetative growth on the command deck. They found the systems still online, and were shocked at the scale of the planetwide catastrophe. They found precisely one Legion signal - Chameleon's flight ring - before realising they had triggered a booby-trap, as energy spikes raced from Earth towards the Outpost. They race for their shuttle, as they were knocked out of orbit by the exploding Outpost...
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===Present===
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...she wakes up. She finds Chameleon hadn't slept, traumatised by the previous month. Irrationally convinced Ultra Boy is not "truly gone", she says she won't give up on him, and they "have to do something. '''Any'''thing." She asks if the answers lie in "that... that Stem". Chameleon says he hopes so - they don't have much choice - and time to wake the others, and find out.
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XS, being carried down the Stem by three Blighted, begins to regain full consciousness as a small telepathic voice calls out to her. She says she's Jenni and asks who the voice is - it can't remember, it's dark, and it's scared, and doesn't know where it is. XS says she thinks they're inside the Stem, and she can barely hear it - it says it was calling for ages before she answered, but Jenni says she was "tranked", but she's now metabolising the sedatives faster than they're entering her system. She then sees several Legionnaires "hung like slabs of meat", but, as it tells her that's what "they do here", and that's why she should escape, the voice grows louder, and she begins to recognise the telepathic "voice" moments before she sees the source being transported in a similar ball of sap - [[Saturn Girl/Post-Zero Hour|Saturn Girl]].
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Immediately, she bursts out, grabs Imra from her prison, and sprints away at super-speed.
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Meanwhile, Cos' team are approaching the Stem, as Brainiac 5.1 baffles them with botanical jargon while looking for a way in. As they get near, however, they see a group of Blighted gathering...
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The Blight desperately search for the escaped XS and Saturn Girl inside the Stem, but Jenni, forced to stop, vibrates them invisibly until they pass. Once they are gone, however, the exhausted and defeated Saturn Girl tells Jenni to go without her, and roughly implants what she had learned of the Blight into XS' brain before collapsing.
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Outside, Cos' team watch as the group of Blighted, including Ultra Boy, [[Star Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Star Boy]] and Umbra, get the "scent" of the two escapees, and aim to find and destroy them...
  
 
==Roll Call==
 
==Roll Call==
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In order of appearance:
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===Legionnaires===
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:''NB: Legionnaires who appear only as "Blighted" are listed under "Villains"
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''Featured:''
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*[[Apparition]] (also in flashback 2)
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*[[Brainiac 5.1]] (also in flashback 2)
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*[[Cosmic Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Cosmic Boy]] (also in flashback 2)
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*[[Chameleon/Post-Zero Hour|Chameleon]]
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*[[Live Wire]]
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*[[Monstress]] (also in flashback 2)
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*[[Saturn Girl/Post-Zero Hour|Saturn Girl]]
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*[[XS]]
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''Cameos'' (in process of being Blighted):
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*[[Ferro]]
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*[[Kid Quantum/Jazmin Cullen|Kid Quantum]]
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*[[M'Onel]]
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*[[Triad]]
  
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===Legionnaires===
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''[[Legion Wiki:Glossary#Behind the Scenes|Behind the Scenes]]:''
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*[[Sensor]] (flashback 1 only)
  
 
===Villains===
 
===Villains===
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*[[Blight]]
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*[[Blight#Blighted|Blighted]]
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**[[Element Lad/Post-Zero Hour|Element Lad]] (flashback 1 only)
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**[[Evolvo]] (flashback 1 only)
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**[[Kinetix]] (flashback 1 only)
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**[[Lori Morning]] (flashback 1 only)
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**[[Spark]] (cover only)
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**[[Spider-Girl/Post-Zero Hour|Spider-Girl]] (flashback 1 only)
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**[[Star Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Star Boy]] (also in flashback 1)
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**[[Ultra Boy/Post-Zero Hour|Ultra Boy]] (also in flashback 1)
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**[[Umbra]]
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**[[Violet]] (flashback 1 only)
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**several unidentifiable
  
 
===Other characters===
 
===Other characters===
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''Cameos'' (in process of being Blighted):
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*[[Atmos]]
  
 
===Planets and Settings===
 
===Planets and Settings===
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===Technology, gadgets, etc===
 
===Technology, gadgets, etc===
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==Notes==
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===Errata===
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*The shuttle the returning Legionnaires use bears only the vaguest of resemblances to the Legion Cruiser they departed in in [[Legionnaires 78|''Legionnaires'' #78]]
  
 
==Solicitation==
 
==Solicitation==
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'''LEGIONNAIRES #79'''
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'''''LEGIONNAIRES #79'''''
  
 
''Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.''
 
''Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.''
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Image:Legionnaires79.jpg|Published cover
 
Image:Legionnaires79.jpg|Published cover
 
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</gallery>
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==See also==
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*[[Legion Publication History/1999-2001|Legion Publication History - Other issues published (late) 1999-2001]]
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*[[Legion Publication History/Series/Legionnaires|Legion Publication History - Other issues of ''Legionnaires'']]
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*[[Chronology/Post-Zero Hour|Post-Zero Hour Chronology]]
  
 
[[Category:Legionnaires (Post-Zero Hour) issues]][[Category:Legion of the Damned| 2]]
 
[[Category:Legionnaires (Post-Zero Hour) issues]][[Category:Legion of the Damned| 2]]

Revision as of 20:22, 10 November 2007

Legionnaires #79
Reboot » Post-Zero Hour
Legionnaires79.jpg
Cover by Olivier Coipel, et al
Story title Legion of the Damned Part Two: Damned if we do!
Previous story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #122
Next story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #123
Publication date 10 November, 1999
Cover date January 2000
Creators
Writer(s) Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA)
Penciller(s) Olivier Coipel
Inker(s) Andy Lanning
Letterer(s) Comicraft
Colourist(s) Tom McCraw
Editor(s) Mike McAvennie
Cover artist(s) Olivier Coipel (pencils)
Andy Lanning (inks)
Patrick Martin (colours).

Legion of the Damned Part Two: Damned if we do!

Chameleon relates the Blight's arrival at Earth to his four newly-arrived teammates, Cosmic Boy, Brainiac 5.1, Apparition and Monstress:

Flashback 1: One Month Ago

Shortly after they'd left to check on a drifting freighter, a trade convoy had been coming through Stargate KF1122, the main Earth Stargate just outside the Moon's orbit, when immense ribbons of energy, the Blight's teleportation tendrils obliterated them, then smashed crashed through the combined attempts of the Legion, Science Police, Amazers and Workforce to prevent them touching down and soon "entwined" Earth - in total, taking less than five hours - before the Blight themselves emerged when victory was already assured, recognised by Sensor as the creatures who destroyed a Lycidian Moon. Many were believed killed in the process, but soon reappeared as the Blight's slaves, who the remaining people came to call the Blighted. He finishes by telling them about President Brande's resistance movement.

Present

Brainiac 5.1 is briefly absorbed by the old puzzle about what had destroyed the moon, but the others are shocked, and Monstress tells him to shut up. She asks about Live Wire, Saturn Girl and Gates, and Chameleon responds that Gates was missing, Saturn Girl had been taken three weeks earlier, and Live Wire was "destroyed this afternoon". Apparition then asks about Ultra Boy and is told that he was one of the Blighted. He then asks what happened to them to cause them to be missing for a month, and B5.1 confirm for Chameleon that, with the Stargates down, it took them a month to return from their mission to rescue a freighter.

Cosmic Boy then says they knew something was wrong, with no Stargates and no communications, "and after what happened to us at the Outpost...". He asks what Chameleon means by "taken", and Chameleon then points out the Blights' interment camps - and their headquarters, the Stem.

In the Stem itself, those captured in the attack in part one are being processed after interrogation. The Blighted Umbra points out the sedated XS, the only metahuman among them, which leads to her being sent deep for power-tapping. Half-conscious, she registers only a dull feeling of revulsion and horror as one of the humans is killed by a Blight member, the others are sent for "final processing", and she is sent deep for power-sapping.

Flashback 2: Outpost

Apparition dreams of her and her three teammates' arrival back at Earth, her violent frustration at being separated from Ultra Boy, which drove her teammates - already stretched by spending days at a time calculating system-to-system hops without Stargates, adding up to a month in cramped conditions - nuts.

When they finally arrived in the Sol System, they boarded the Legion Outpost - oddly, still in Earth orbit as when they'd left, rather than its' usual position - and found it deserted, but with a strange vegetative growth on the command deck. They found the systems still online, and were shocked at the scale of the planetwide catastrophe. They found precisely one Legion signal - Chameleon's flight ring - before realising they had triggered a booby-trap, as energy spikes raced from Earth towards the Outpost. They race for their shuttle, as they were knocked out of orbit by the exploding Outpost...

Present

...she wakes up. She finds Chameleon hadn't slept, traumatised by the previous month. Irrationally convinced Ultra Boy is not "truly gone", she says she won't give up on him, and they "have to do something. Anything." She asks if the answers lie in "that... that Stem". Chameleon says he hopes so - they don't have much choice - and time to wake the others, and find out.

XS, being carried down the Stem by three Blighted, begins to regain full consciousness as a small telepathic voice calls out to her. She says she's Jenni and asks who the voice is - it can't remember, it's dark, and it's scared, and doesn't know where it is. XS says she thinks they're inside the Stem, and she can barely hear it - it says it was calling for ages before she answered, but Jenni says she was "tranked", but she's now metabolising the sedatives faster than they're entering her system. She then sees several Legionnaires "hung like slabs of meat", but, as it tells her that's what "they do here", and that's why she should escape, the voice grows louder, and she begins to recognise the telepathic "voice" moments before she sees the source being transported in a similar ball of sap - Saturn Girl.

Immediately, she bursts out, grabs Imra from her prison, and sprints away at super-speed.

Meanwhile, Cos' team are approaching the Stem, as Brainiac 5.1 baffles them with botanical jargon while looking for a way in. As they get near, however, they see a group of Blighted gathering...

The Blight desperately search for the escaped XS and Saturn Girl inside the Stem, but Jenni, forced to stop, vibrates them invisibly until they pass. Once they are gone, however, the exhausted and defeated Saturn Girl tells Jenni to go without her, and roughly implants what she had learned of the Blight into XS' brain before collapsing.

Outside, Cos' team watch as the group of Blighted, including Ultra Boy, Star Boy and Umbra, get the "scent" of the two escapees, and aim to find and destroy them...

Roll Call

Legionnaires

NB: Legionnaires who appear only as "Blighted" are listed under "Villains"

Featured:

Cameos (in process of being Blighted):

Behind the Scenes:

Villains

Other characters

Cameos (in process of being Blighted):

Planets and Settings

Technology, gadgets, etc

Notes

Errata

  • The shuttle the returning Legionnaires use bears only the vaguest of resemblances to the Legion Cruiser they departed in in Legionnaires #78

Solicitation

LEGIONNAIRES #79

Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning; art and cover by Olivier Coipel and Lanning.

The battle against the menace of the Blight heats up in Part 2 of the 4-part "Legion of the Damned." After being stranded in space for a month, Cosmic Boy, Monstress, Apparition, and Brainiac 5.1 return to Earth and find the planet completely dominated by the alien race known as the Blight. Along with Chameleon, the remaining Legionnaires make a plan to storm the Blight headquarters, in the hopes of freeing their teammates -- and the rest of the planet -- from the Blight's control.

32 pages, $2.50, ships on Nov. 10.

Cover images

  • Published cover

See also

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