#graym ranzz

[somewherefornow]

COSMIC BOY/ROKK KRINN & GRAYM RANZZ in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1984)

[sprockyeahlegion]

AGOOOOO

[orange-s-mario]

hmmm

(ignore the other characters in the Jon & XTC images)

[evilhorse]

Mom’s had a rough few days.

[protytwo]

Sensor Girl and everybody else by Greg LaRocque and Mike DeCarlo.

[smartshipfriday]

LOSH Appreciation Week Day 4 - Vertigo or Love

For the prompt I focused more on familial love and featured the issue where they find out Validus is in fact Garridan Ranzz

[luvdsaturnn]

LOSH week day 1: AU- alternate universe

*wandavision theme intensifies*

[dailydccomics]

guess whose got YOUR nose, uncle Rokk 

[sebeth]

Hugs For Everyone!

[faithful-grigori]

“#listen there's so many thoughts around these designs, #and their characterization, #Pol's costume is his brothers og one but altered a bit, #the Ranzzes could literally fall in the psychic twins trope perfectly, #and they each take more from the parent they're closer to, #plus the toll of vague incomprehensible memories of being Validus would take on Gar, #or how Graym is the only one he could truly share them with, #being telepathically connected to each other and all, #Alura is a character that literally writes herself, #can you imagine the superiority-inferiority complex a child like her would have, #a brat who's proof intellect and maturity aren't the same thing, #who probably declared herself leader and dragged the rest of them in this, #her great great grandpas spirit lives on in her, #the two younger siblings probably wanting to proove themselves to their older brothers, #and Danielle would probably want to prove to the world she's not helpless anymore, #literally my mind is beaming with ideas nobody in the world but me cares about, #these are barely canon characters send help”

When I posted my XTC redesign a while ago, multiple different people suggested that it’d be interesting if she was in a group with other young characters associated with the Legion so uuuh here’s an idea around that.

A bunch of kids and younger siblings of more well-established Legionnaires teaming up together to form a sort of “Junior Legion” sounds incredibly fun. Ages have been obviously fudged up and down so they could all be around the same range.

I have waaay too many ideas about characters with such obscure or semi-canon status lol

[somewherefornow]

GARTH RANZZ/LIGHTNING LAD & IMRA ARDEEN/SATURN GIRL & ROKK KRINN/COSMIC BOY & GRAYM RANZZ in LEGIONNAIRES 3 (1986)

[sprockyeahlegion]

“Iron Butt”

[prankprincess123]

I keep seeing theories on how to fix Karamel, so here's my thoughts.

Both of my theories hinge on the idea that the 31st century must be a mess if the Leigon are coming back in time, so what if in the future all of the heroes were killed, and everything spiraled to the point of deciding to alter history. Presumably the Leigon are the only heroes left in the universe (possibly the near-multiverse even) and given that there are only 6 stasis pods they seem to have potentialy lost many teammates.

My initial impression was that the marriage is a cover, plain and simple. It could be a pre-established cover that they agreed on before they got in the stasis pods, or (my favorite idea) a spur of the moment scrambling for a cover that they agreed on via Imra's powers (because if they had time they could have come up with a less painful cover) And this would make sense as an attempt to not change too much of what for the Legion of SuperHeroes is history, maybe it could mess up the mission if Mon-el gets too close to Kara before they acheive their goal, maybe it could put Kara in more danger and either he is being over protective or that could make the future worse. At some point Kara will find out about the cover and things will go back to normal.

This theory has some possible evidence in canon as Mon-el is still clearly in love with Kara and grips her necklace very possessively as though she shouldn't know he still has it. Also most married couples dont greet eachother with a kiss of that PDA level, typicaly it would be a hug and a peck on the cheek or corner of the mouth, and upon being introduced to Kara, Imra doesn't react as though meeting a romantic rival, but as though she's meeting her hero.

My other theory is both more and less likely, but I think it would add more depth to Imra's character while simultaneously making it so no one involved is the badguy. In this senario the marriage is real, a result of two heartbroken friends finding comfort in eachother after both loosing their true loves. Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl are usualy married in the comics, so what if he is one of the Leigon members who died. As a result Mon-el and Imra, two broken-hearted heroes bacame co-leaders of the team. It could even be possible in this senario that Graym and Garridan were alive and being a good friend Mon-el began helping her with them, bringing them closer, and it may have even been a marriage of convinence (most likely the twins would later have died too). Maybe the fix begins with Imra meeting Ruby (at the DEO or Kara's house or something after her mom is declared missing) and having to leave the room crying and ever concerned about anyone Kara asks Mon-el why such a reaction to meeting a kid, and he tells her that Imra misses her own kids. Maybe Kara decides to purposely change the future so that these children (and people in general) that she's never met will have an opportunity to live, possibly not even realizing that these kids were born before Mon-el was anything more than a friend and teammate to Imra. And how Kara changes the future causes Garth to never have died either, making it so the marriage never existed anymore. Maybe because of something Kara does there are additional stasis pods that appear in the ship, holding Imra's family and several other Leigon members. This would be a very interesting direction to take the story, as it would provide a lot of depth and opportunity for both character and inter-character development.

[evilhorse]

Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #2

[blanddcheadcanons]

Do you have any favorite lesser known facts about any of the “families” in DC

Buddy Blank AKA OMAC is Kamandi’s grandfather, linking the 2 futures.  Also Bendis fucked up and put Kamandi before OMAC.  Dumbass.

The Legion of Superheroes fought the monster Validus, with his mental lightning for years.  As adults, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl married and gave birth to twin boys, Garridan and Graym Ranzz.  At the moment of birth Darkseid teleported Garridan and mutated him into Validus and sent him back in time.  It was only years later Saturn Girl recognized him and managed to transform him  back.

The original Marvel family had 3 Lieutenants Marvel.  All named Billy.  They were called Tall Billy, Fat Billy, and Hill Billy.  Also Kid Eternity is Captain Marvel Jr.’s brother.

[thecomicsnexus]

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1-5, VOL. 2 ANNUAL #3 AUGUST - DECEMBER 1984 BY PAUL LEVITZ, KEITH GIFFEN, STEVE LIGHTLE, LARRY MAHLSTEDT, CURT SWAN, ROMEO TANGHAL AND CARL GAFFORD

SYNOPSIS (MIXED WITH DC DATABASE AND COMIC VINE)

Lightning Lord stands within his castle conspiring with a group of shadowy figures. He vows to finally destroy his brother, Garth Ranzz.

On the planet, Ventura, Star Boy and Dream Girl visit a gambling hall. A criminal named Micro Lad and his robot servant break into the casino and begin shooting at several patrons. Micro Lad attempts to steal the casino's credit chips, but Star Boy and Dream Girl force him to retreat. He uses his shrinking powers to escape into the casino's lower levels. However, he runs into Shrinking Violet, who quickly takes him down. Before she can arrest him however, a dimensional rift opens up and Micro Lad is pulled into it.

On Daxam, several members of the Legion survey the terrain. Mon-El receives an emergency communiqué informing him that a renegade Daxamite is wreaking havoc on Takron-Galtos. The Legion flies to the prison world where they find Ol-Vir creating a wake of massive devastation. Mon-El flies into a rage and attacks Ol-Vir. During the fight, another dimensional rift opens up, and a disembodied voice draws Ol-Vir inside. The voice declares that he is to become part of the new Legion of Super-Heroes.

On Winath, a private investigator working for Timber Wolf spies on Ayla Rannz. He makes a record of her activity and downloads it into a computer scanner.

Back on Earth, Gim Allon and his wife, Yera, return home and settle into their apartment. Gim reads a vid and learns that his mother, Marte Allon, has resigned as President of the United Planets.

The Legion of Super-Villains continue their battle with the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the process, they're able to steal the Polymer Shield that covers Earth. Meanwhile, Saturn Girl is about to deliver her child.

While Saturn Girl is about to deliver her and Lightning Lad's child, the Legion must try to stop a group of mystics from reviving Mordru.

Saturn Girl is ready to give birth to her child. On Medicus One, Lightning Lad is in a rush to by his wife's side when a doctor asks him to come with him for a moment. The doctor is revealed to be Starfinger in disguise, but Lightning Lad is able to stop him. Meanwhile, a group of Legionnaires go to the planet of Avalon to find if Mordru is still within his earthen prison. When they arrive there, they realize he isn't and alert their teammates. 

A group of Mordru's followers released his body and are using their magic to revive him. The Legionnaires board spacecrafts and fly in space when Shadow Lass is magically kidnapped and teleported to where Mordru and his followers are, as well as Shadow Lad from the Legion Academy. The servants of Mordru believe the darkness power of Shadow Lass and Shadow Lad could help revive Mordru, and they are correct, as a darkness covers the galaxy. The darkness reaches Medicus One just as Saturn Girl gives birth to her child. 

The Legion arrive to Mordru's side and defeat his servants before they can fully revive Mordru, and the darkness dissipates. Saturn Girl gives birth to her new son, Graym, and is surprised to find that he wasn't a pair of twins since she believed she felt two mental presences with her. Meanwhile, Darkseid has Saturn Girl's second child and names him Validus, sending him in the past and transforming him.

The Legion of Super-Heroes continues to fight against the Legion of Super-Villains. Karate Kid and Nemesis Kid have a final showdown ending with Karate Kid fatally injured. In the few minutes he has left, Karate Kid destroys the LSV's powersphere crippling their plans.

The Legion of Super-Villains are defeated by the Legion of Super-Heroes. Princess Projectra, after seeing her husband Karate Kid slain by Nemesis Kid, takes revenge and snaps the neck of Nemesis Kid. Having to quit the Legion to be a leader to her planet of Orando, Projectra sends the remaining Legion members that were on her planet back to their rightful place through Zymyr's technology but it seems they may be lost in space.

REVIEW

If you only had to read one issue of these six... it would have to be annual #3. One would think that Darkseid would use that time traveling thingy to... you know... win. But he decided for the soap opera method that fits the legion so well.

Then for the rest, I still haven’t found a starting point to the Legion. It is definitely not this new number one. This Projectra/Karate Kid thing has been going on for 5 years. That’s how long it takes for character arcs to feel complete. As a result, you just don’t care that much if they die, as long as it trims the roster.

I think the main problem is that these characters didn’t have opportunities to impress me before, and as a result, I don’t feel particularly interested in any of the plots (that started a couple of decades ago).

I do care about the original three legionnaires and Brainy. And Mon-El. But they are not always part of these issues.

The change to a better paper does wonders to the art. Now with Steve Lightle instead of Giffen.

I give this arc a score of 7