#Earth 247

[radioactive-earthshine]

Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes Reading List.

I am ever so delighted that since I finished the MAIN series I have had 4 people in my DMs wanting to know an official reading order. This is amazing. So for those who might be a little more message shy here is a list for you to take, keep, and read.

You might see this order and think it's weird, trust me it, it is. The reason why it is weird is because 1.) the Zero Hour event in 1994 rebooted the team in the middle of two books, so the creators drafted up a new start with a #0 issue and 2.) LOSH had two books per month.

Anyway, here is your primary PZH LOSH guide.

Legions of Super-Heroes (1989) has been shortened to "LOSH 1989" for simplicity.

Primary Run

LOSH 1989 #0

Legionnaires #0

LOSH 1989 #62

Legionnaires #19 then you switch back and forth and the comics will guide you where to go at the end of each issue. You do this all the way until the series ends. Don't forget the annuals!

Legion Lost 2000

Legion Worlds

The Legion

Teen Titans/Legion Special - The "end" of their run

Final Crisis: Legion of the Three Worlds - They are revealed to be alive still! Bart and Kon are brought back from dead.

Other Specials and Fun Things

Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze - Read this sometime in the last 10 issues of the primary run.

Legion: Secret Files

Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files

Showcase '96 Issues #11 & #12 - LOSH '89 should tell you when to jump to these two, you will read them when Querl and the lost Legionnaires are stranded in 1996.

Genesis 1997 - The Genesis Event, you will read this sometime during the time the Legionnaires are stranded in the 90s.

Inferno 1997 - A mini for Inferno, you should read this after Inferno breaks from the stranded Legionnaires in the 90s.

Adventures in the DC Universe Issue #10 - Just a fun little story.

There are many other appearances of this team in the 90s comics, particularly when they are stranded in the 1990s. Their book is particularly good however at informing you where to go, and if they appeared somewhere else.

Thank you, and happy reading.

Legionnaires #47 You want to read Jenni's run sooooo badly. Do it for her.

[sprockyeahlegion]

Founders, in every “Universe”

[splooosh]

Inspired

Adam Hughes

[transguygardner]

Into the GuyLoboVerse: Day 20

Earth 247: Metal Elysium

GUY GARDNER - A man with a bowl cut in a navy, yellow, and white color blocked letterman jacket is searching the room with his eyes. It seems he is looking for someone -- you. As you approach, he looks you up and down and extends his hand in greeting. PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Medium: Success] - On the sleeve of his letterman jacket -- as well as on its back -- are the same enigmatic green rectangles as on your blazer. YOU - Shake his hand. GUY GARDNER - "Hello, I'm Guy Gardner." His grip is firm. "Lieutenant Precinct 2814. You must be from the 3500th..." You realize he is waiting for your name. 1. - "I don't really know my name." 2. - [Conceptualization - Medium 11] Invent a name for yourself. 3. - Say nothing.

Author's Notes:

Ok so this is a bit of a fake fan moment for me (I still haven't played Disco Elysium all the way through. I've played it very little unfortunately). HOWEVER, I know in my heart that it would be fun to do the dynamic of a man giving a broken man the room to pull himself together with Guy and Lobo. It's spiritually connected to the Nice Guys AU (Earth 156) in that Harry du Bois and Holland March are similar (substance issues, 70s, divorced and broken about it) though Harry is much further gone than March. So it is Lobo's turn to play the broken detective.

The text above is a slightly edited version of the scene where Harry meets Kim. I wish I could do more to write in the style of the game but as I said I have not played enough of the game to have the voice there captured. One day though...

Since Kim's iconic jacket is supposed to be modeled after the air brigades in the revolution, I modeled Guy's off of General Glory. With Lobo I switched out Harry's disco look with the most professional wardrobe I could find for Judas Priest (Heavy Metal band with a gay lead singer) in the 70s and 80s.

I know that part of Harry's substance abuse stems from trying to control his chronic pain which is something that slots in nicely with my own headcanon that Lobo's consistent and excessive drinking is to dull his own overactive senses so that he can focus at all. (An insert in Lobo: The Last Czarnian describes his tracking abilities as being able to sense and follow individual auras which would make any populated area extremely overwhelming).

I haven't done much with this one yet because I'm waiting until I have time to play the game more. But it rolls around in my head.

[radioactive-earthshine]

She's also GORGEOUS to her teammates.

Legionnaires #43

No one is freaked out by her appearance or distressed, and the first thing Thom mentions is that she is in fact gorgeous.

The Post-Zero Hour Reboot LOSH did a lot of things right in the 90s.

…Okay, I found out about this character from the Legion of Superheroes called Jeka Wynzorr, this sapient snake with illusion-making powers that got mutated into some other form via convoluted energy shenanigans and also Ras Al Ghul.

The important part is, while her post-mutation form is your standard Sexy Snake Lady

Her original design was this .

And like, as much as I like me a good monstergirl, whatever jackass made the decision to change this absolute perfection for the sake of horny should probably be fired. Out of a cannon.

[violaceaes]

i have been awake since 4am and it's almost 6am and i need to put makeup on and get going soon but my eyes are extra watery today and idk how this is gonna go

[fruitkingfrog]

[ID: Shooting Star from DC Comics, leaping in the air and smiling. His cape is a big star flash with a trail. Behind him is a city scape with blue purple and pink sunset lighting. The second image is the same but has airbrushed shading. End ID]

when criminals see this shooting star, they'll wish upon it, all right!... they'll wish they'd never been born!

based on 60s batman movie poster i found here :D

commission info & ko-fi links available on my pinned post♥ ♥ reblogs appreciated! do not repost/edit/etc

[radioactive-earthshine]

Pretty sure Bart knew all the swear words available by the time he left his birth time.

BUT what's even more funny is Bart and Querl for quite a bit of time actually shared a mental link with each other when Querl was stranded in the past. It was open communication between them that was regrettably didn’t see much of.

You know damn well words were exchanged. Even if Querl often will often spurn swearing he is the Legion's resident potty mouth.

I'm imagining Bart picking up a swear word he absolutely never knew and he drops it around Jenni and she just has to stop and interrogate how he learned THAT one.

It doesn't take long to figure out who was at fault.

If Bart hung out with Jenni and the Legion in the future more often he would pick up more 31st century swears cause of Braniac's potty mouth. This is how my Bart and Jenni close cousins agenda can win-

[tylerhourman-remaking]

obviously at the time he was but the fact that the thom in starman #50 isnt the one that grows up to be danny blaine is so fucked

[247liveculture]

Happy Birthday Andrew Woolfolk from Earth, Wind & Fire! 👑🕊️

[radioactive-earthshine]

Hello

Could you explain what you mean by Bart and Brainaic's friendship? I admit I never read any bit of LOSH and the only thing I remember of them interacting is when Brian told Bart he drank to forget him. It doesn't seem like they are friends but IDK

Teen Titans/Legion Special (2004)

This is actually something fairly on brand for Querl to say given his crassness inherited from the long line of Dox-Bitchiness. Querl is one of those great examples of a character who is a good person but he's not necessarily polite and nice all of the time. Although in more recent comics and media he has gotten significantly nicer.

His loose "blink and you miss it" friendship with Bart in the 90s comics comes as a little bit of a surprise considering the types of characters they are but it works as their dynamic evolves around mutually started chaos and working to get out of said chaos. The start of their connection also shows a surprising side of Post-Zero Hour Querl when he elects to show Bart some compassion after he had a very bad day.

This is not to say that their friendship was without a lot of frustrations as Bart did inflict himself upon the Legionnaires in ways that left... an impact.

Bart's first encounter with Querl can be found in his own comic when recently stranded Legionnaires specifically sought Bart out for help in getting back to their own time.

It ended disastrously when Bart while in the midst of an extreme case of the zoomies attempted to use the Cosmic Treadmill to take them home, but he had absolutely no ability to control it, and instead just flung everyone around through varying intervals of time (and gave Imra a migraine and Querl, Koko).

Impulse #21

Bart was even more hyper-active in this issue than normal, and I think it had something to do with the Slurpee he was drinking at the start of it.

Regardless if the zoomies were a result of Mark Waid deciding to go full ham for the chaos in this issue, or if the slurpee did something, the day did not end well and the Legionnaires left hoping to find another way home.

Querl did not expect to see Bart again for a long, long time, if ever.

They were all wrong.

Because like the One Ring he resurfaced as he inflicted himself upon them again about a day later at S.T.A.R. Labs in Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) Issue #88.

But not before the issue opens up reminding everyone that while Bart does have his chaotic moments, Querl is no less guilty of chaos and is his own unique brand of mayhem.

They are in fact, kindred.

LMFAO @ Rokk's "I've asked him NOT to." in regards to blowing up S.T.A.R. Labs because Rokk has about as much control over Querl as Max or any authority figure over Bart when he has an inkling.

S.T.A.R. Labs' solution to dealing with Querl was to put him under watch and surveillance, much to his extreme foul-mouthed displeasure, another trait he shares with Bart.

"What could possibly go awry?" is early Bart Allen's famous summoning incantation.

With Bart back in proximity of the Legionnaires things begin to unfold again chaotically, this time however it is Querl's fault for trying coopt Bart into helping him operate under the radar put on him.

This is their first instance working together, and it is the incident that brings them together and what likely prompts Querl to drink.

With the telepathic ear plugs, Querl directs Bart and gives him what he believes are clear instructions, but he didn't count on Bart's own brand of logic and instead helps initiate a countdown towards nuclear meltdown.

Fortunately, everyone is able to work together to stop catastrophe and all it takes is a Coluan finger subjected to speed force.

"Well. THAT went all right, then, didn't it?" you're a grenade in a barrel full of oatmeal, sir.

The day's events leads to the Legionnaires being kicked out of S.T.A.R. Labs, and out of a home, until they can find a solution to get back to their time.

It also leads to the heartbreaking scene at the diner where Bart is very bluntly and firmly told that he was absolutely not accepted as a Legionnaire. But not only that, he was the first ever hero to be turned down. Superboy at this time is an honorary member so it's a poignant gut-punch and it's hard to read.

Querl lurks outside for reasons unknown.

In true Bart Allen fashion all he wanted to do was help and he did act earnestly it just was not a good day. Six to One rejected him and the comics do not reveal who voted to allow him in.

It is likely that Querl voted to allow him membership, but we never find out, but it is my personal interpretation due to how the final page goes and this is where we see Querl lean into compassion for someone kindred. Maybe he saw a little bit of himself in him.

Querl opens up to Bart literal direct communication and this is the start of a positive friendship between them. Bart has this link with Querl for an impressively long time in comic continuity, at least 11 issues, however the comics do not show them actively communicating until later when Bart is needed to help save the world from C.O.M.P.U.T.O.

We see them again in Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #99 when Querl reveals to his team that he shares a link with Bart and summons him. Much to the Legionnaires' bemoaning.

Querl isn't wrong, they really are up against time and a threat that is literally world-ending. He trusts Bart is capable and reliable enough to efficiently help them at this point and Bart does.

We also get a humorous snippet showing Querl trying to translate Bart's pictograms. If anything, communicating with Bart sometimes had to have been a mental exercise that he either appreciated or attained a migraine from.

After this point, we do not see them interact much except for in the Teen Titans/Legion Special, and then the next time they are seen even in the same proximity is during Final Crisis when another Brainiac 5 entirely bottles Bart's 'youth' and leads to his resurrection.

They had an interesting and unexpected dynamic/friendship and it is one I feel people generally neglect to notice or consider unless you happen to be a fan of both comics.

We do see some hints in other media that is a throw-back to this old friendship and dynamic such as in The Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century Issue #15 when an alternative history to Bart Allen lands him working with Querl in his birth time.

In this particular version of Bart he has not evacuated to the past (if he ever does) and he is still in VR, however he still works with Querl in harmony and manages to impress them enough to get an invite to the team immediately. The entire issue is like a little love-letter to Bart and is a delight to read and stands on its own.

So there's Bart's interesting relationship/friendship to Earth 247's Brainiac 5 that maybe some in the Flashfam fandom or LOSH fandom may have overlooked.

It's fun, it's unexpected and it's interesting, and it would have been nice to see it a little more fleshed out but 1000 years of time displacement just makes this impossible.

[sprockyeahlegion]

“legion Lust”

[astrometrych]

Astronomy #Space #Espace #Astrometry

[chaoticchorister]

The way my heart sank when I reloaded and he went from 230 to 247. This is hell on earth. What the fuck is happening.

[radioactive-earthshine]

They are both wicked smart.

If you ever have the time or energy to read Jenni’s LoSH team (it's the reboot team, or Post-Zero Hour team) I definitely recommend it.

Jenni doesn't share Bart’s eidetic memory but she is wickedly smart and applies her intelligence to get out of complex situations. She doesn’t have the full scope of how to use the Speedforce to her advantage so she falls back on classic wit and generic speed gremlinisms to 'win'. She’s a lonely speedster, she doesn't have her speedster family to teach her how to be one.

She also is very fashionable and cute and her team adores her.

tbh (I haven't read losh so maybe I'm wrong) but Jenni seems to be a fast learner when she applies herself. Bart too. Like they both picked up English super quick despite it being their second language (interlac is both of their first) and Jenni got the hang of 90s fashion after her first outfit. I don't know if this is like...significant at all its just an observation that in select cases they're both quick learners (ha, quick) if it's a study-able topic and not so much an emotional/practical one y’know?

(I haven't read league of super heros either)

I do definitely think you're onto something in that they both naturally just pick things up quick- but so do other characters that I would consider to not be very fashionable (Tim drake comes to mind but i know there's others)

I think its just an intentional choice on the part of the artists that have just stuck around and become part of them- even if they didn't necessarily mean for it to.

Regardless- they're both wicked smart.

[bad-tf-fic-ideas]

(247) Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are split spark twins and have been conjunxed for thousands of years even before they take a 4 million year nap beneath Mt St Helens on Earth.

When they wake up and get involved with the local native life forms, they quickly discover the human concept of "incest," both as a taboo and as a kink, because it comes up every time they are introduced. This idea has no cybertronian equivalent, as consanguinity is meaningless to a homonormative culture with no sexual reproductive practices. But their new human companions have strict social rules, and they say, "no dating your twin."

Today's fic idea is to write a one-shot exploring any variety of human and cybertronian responses to the cultural difference.