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Superboy and Valor (and LSH) picspam: Love and Tights
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Both of the Superboy fics I've posted on this journal involve Kon's time with the post-boot Legion, so I figured I'd provide a sort of guide to what the hell I'm talking about, here. XD Especially as I plan to post more! Under the cut you will find some issue summaries, and about 20 pictures. HUGE ones, for the most part, sorry. Not for the weak of net connection! All of the pictures are also available in a gallery in my Scrapbook. Most of the scans are from when Kon was stranded in the future (from The Legion #25-33) because I love Batista's art. Thus, this'll begin with storytime as I tell y'all where the relationship between Kon and Lar -- Lar Gand, aka Valor, Mon-El, and M'Onel -- began, a meeting which was unfortunately drawn by Tom Grummet, meaning everyone has the same weird face.
Also, Cosmic Boy is a bitch.
Okay, so first of all, Kon first met Lar when Lar showed up in Hawai'i. Lar was dying of lead poisoning, and the only one who had the cure was Vril Dox -- but Lar didn't even remember his own name, much less that he was an alien who needed to find this other alien to get a shot. He was being used by this asshole gangster/international bookie, Gamboli (Gamboli, gambling -- so original) who blackmailed Kon's agent, Leech, into setting up Superboy for an ambush so he could televise the fight worldwide. He promised Lar, whom he named Champion, that if he won the fight they'd get him the best medical help money could buy to figure out who he was... He also knew Lar was sick.
Kon figures out that "Champ" is sick and being forced to fight pretty quick, actually, despite Lar not breathing a word of it. Unfortunately for him, Knockout joins the fight and goes up against both of the guys -- and the guys the Army sends in. In tanks. Lar's awesome sassy spaceship Babbage flies in the nick of time to fetch Lar and tells him (and Kon) what's up -- but Lar is still delirious and insists that he has to be Valor in space, so he won't let Babbage leave the area until he changes costumes. Knockout jumps up onto the ship and rips out the trans-drive. Kon gets Lar out just before Babbage explodes. ;_; (Good for Lar, but -- I liked Babbage, in the Valor series.)
Superboy drops Knockout onto Gamboli's getaway boat (where she kills him and a bunch of other guys) and carries Lar to STAR Labs, because he knows they have a device that can open a portal to the Stasis/Phantom Zone, and figures putting Lar in there will stop him from dying while Kon goes to find this Vril Dox guy to get the cure. Good plan! But there's a problem. The device in question has never opened a portal big enough for a person to go through before. Kon uses his tactile telekinesis to hold the thing together long enough for Lar to get through --
Lar: Superboy --
Kon: Send me a thank-you bouquet... later, Valor! This... isn't as easy as it looks!
Lar: I just wanted to say that I'll never be able to repay you. Not in a thousand years!
-- but the machine doesn't survive long after. Lar is safe -- but it will take years to try to duplicate the device, and Lar faded out of sight right in front of Kon's eyes. ;_; He kept trying to touch him --
Now, Kon does not actually find Vril Dox. Instead, he finds Querl Dox (and boy, do they get off to a rocky start). I'm not sure exactly how he winds up in the 30th century -- I don't have the first two issues of this story arc, alas, although I'm pretty sure it has to do with how XS wound up in the 20th century, and I choose to blame Bart Allen -- but he convinces the Legion to help him save Valor.
Valor, who is worshipped as a god by the peoples of many planets (including Carggg, where Legionnaire Triad is from). Not knowing this, Superboy accidentally blabs to the galaxy about this, which means the LSH HQ is mobbed. Oops. Fortunately, Brainiac 5 has a cunning plan for dealing with this: namely, they recreate the device Kon used and activate it in front of the mob -- and it appears to fail. Legionnaires are pelted with fruit and shoes. Kon and Brainy escape to the world Lar will now be appearing on, thanks to Brainy building the thing as a remote-activating, time-lapse widget.
And Lar is freed.
For Kon, it's been days, maybe weeks, possibly more than a month. For Lar, it's been one thousand years. A millennium during which he could see and hear everything going on around him, but not be seen or heard in turn, not touch or taste or smell or interact in any way. It has been, in short, torment.
He cries. He grabs Kon.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the last time we see them interact until 2004.
Kon: *sees Triad crying* Brainy... wait. *walks over to her* Hey... It's Valor, right? I know. He wouldn't even say good-bye to me, can you believe it? Just remember, he's been through a lot. He'll come around.
Cosmic Boy gives Kon a Legion ring, making him a member, and Brainy takes him home (and goes to find XS). This is the last nice thing Cos ever does in regards to Kon.
Okay, so, in The Legion #25, Kon is found floating in the D-space of a stargate. (Yes, a stargate -- not the same thing as in those TV shows I watch, and actually I'm pretty sure the Legion usage predates the first Stargate movie by a few decades, since they existed in the Silver Age. Kon keeps calling them "spacegates", Cos keeps correcting him, there's some yelling...) Five weeks after Kon shows up, he's well enough to do a patrol with a squad of Legionnaires -- but they get attacked by some servants of Darkseid. One of them rips the S-shield off his shirt.
This results in a few things, the most adorable of which is Andrew Nolan designing a new costume for him (but not hand-making it, unlike the last costume he gave Kon, when part of the Legion was stuck in the past -- Andrew is from the 20th century, and is a complete sweetheart; I adore him). The new costume is, well -- is there a word that combines 'classic' and 'hot'?
GUH. Batista art for the fucking WIN.
*cough* Anyway! As you can probably understand, when the media catches sight of him in this rig, people go apeshit -- because Valor is not the only one worshipped as a god. The Church of the Last Son follows the philosophy of Superman, supposedly, for example.
Cos is really unhappy about this attention -- Kon keeps saving people, it keeps making the news, cultists keep showing up -- and becomes even more of a bitch. I am about to give you three scans of Cos being a bitch to Kon. They are all from issue #28, and they aren't even all the examples of this from that issue. At one point Kon tries whispering a really relevant observation about what's going on to Imra*, and Brainy tells him "not now, Kon", because Cos is setting a precedent. He starts glaring at Kon whenever he thinks he might speak. He yells at him a lot, and is basically a dick. In every issue. Here are those examples.
Kon has just fought a Servant of Darkseid who was attacking Smallville. There's some property damage, but I personally don't think Kon did anything wrong:
AND it turns out that guy he fought? Allowing the Legion to catch him? Is really fucking important, because he's Clark Kent. Darkseid had grabbed him from before he was ever Superanybody. This is Clue One that the servants are all powerful heroes from the past -- and that Darkseid is messing with the time stream. Does Kon get any cred for this? No. Cos won't even let him offer a suggestion:
So some Servants blow up the Time Institute to stop Brainy and Lyle (Invisible Kid) from tracking what Darkseid's been doing -- incidentally stranding Kon in the future. His short-term memory had been erased when they found him, so he couldn't tell them when to send him back to; devices/scientists/etc. at the Institute were working on figuring this out. Brainy can rebuild a time machine, but it's too dangerous to send him back blind. Meanwhile, the attack allowed Lyle to follow the Servants back, and he discovers that billions of cultists are killing themselves to bring Darkseid back. The Legion decides to take the offensive.
Kon is not allowed to go:
(The shiny guy he's talking to there is Garth Ranzz, aka Livewire, stuck in the body of Jan Arrah, aka Element Lad. So yeah, he understands.)
Kon's not the only one left behind. Jazmin's quantum-based powers seem to be destabilizing, so she stepped down from Legion leadership (putting Cos in charge); Vi was injured in the first attack on Apokalips (to retrieve Lyle), and poor Garth is usually left behind since he came back from the dead in the wrong body, because people find him creepy.
Naturally, these four are the ones who figure out what's actually going on and save the universe and time itself. \o/
First, Kon gives a pep talk:
I love that he does that; Superboy is meant to be inspirational, really, especially when it comes to the Legion of Superheroes. He refuses to give up, and reminds them of what they are.
And he looks so pretty punching Darkseid:
Okay, so what's actually going on is that the Darkseid of now pulled the Darkseid of the past forward in time in order to steal his body. The younger Darkseid killed him instead -- thus dooming the universe, because there was some stuff the older one still had to do to keep it from destroying itself, which the younger one has not yet learned. Jazmin's powers aren't on the fritz, she's been seeing flashes of the four of them stopping this murder and fighting the younger Darkseid back through time to when he came from.
Here's a page of that, just because it looks awesome, and have I ever mentioned how much I love heat vision? It's a thing. (And here's where I got my lovely new icon. ;3)
They get Clark back to normal, repress his memory of what happened, and send him home. Whatever. At this point, something rather surprising happens: Querl finally, one might even say officially, warms to Kon. Not that I'm interpreting "Are you busy this afternoon?" as asking for a date or anything. >.> He said he could use Kon's help. He didn't draft him or order him to be his minion (like he did with Bart, but then again, Bart was aggressively volunteering), he asked. Oh, Querl. ♥
So yeah, as you see, Querl asks for help, Kon says yes, and they are still working on this problem next issue, which is why, in the subjective middle of the night, Querl and Kon and a couple other people are around when Lar finally comes back:
He's been in another galaxy (they keep calling it "the second galaxy"), where some of the Legionnaires had been lost for a year -- where Garth died, in fact, and so did Candi, and Jan, but not until after "the Progenitor" subjugated the hell out of the entire place for eons. Supposedly he was Jan, but I don't buy it; I think that was a storyline change when the DC editors realised that people had already figured out Singularity was the Progenitor -- since it was really obvious -- and they did the same thing with the Hush storyline in Batman. Anyway, what you need to know is that people from this other galaxy think someone who looks like Jan Arrah was this totalitarian rat-bastard/God ...and Garth looks like Jan Arrah, so when some of the hostiles that followed Lar through the Threshold escape home, it's a Bad Thing. The organization is run by Singularity and calls itself Credo, and aims to destroy everything they associate with the Progenitor. And everyone.
Kon doesn't know any of this, because Cos is a bitch:
"Cosmic Boy says I'm not supposed to." Why is that, I wonder? Kon hasn't seen Lar since he got to the future, because Lar is over and away, and Kon's not allowed to know? When everyone in the Legion knows how much those two seem to mean to each other? NOT ON, ROKK.
ANYWAY. More bad news: Lar wasn't alone over there; he and a few other Legionnaires (Chameleon, Kinetix, and Gates) were accompanying R.J. Brande as he spread the United Planets message of peace and co-operation between worlds. Things were going well, right up until they ran into Credo. Singularity, knowing that the Legion had been looking for Jan, since they ran into him before they ran into the Progenitor (another reason to suspect him, and here's a third: the Credo warcry is "One cause of the One! Credo!" ...the One... Singularity... but I digress) and thus declared that the Legion were "of the Progenitor" and had to be destroyed. Lar escaped, but since Garth was spotted, they have a very small window of time to deal with this.
And, uh -- Lar partially dressed in his old costume is... really attractive. And also, as you can see, not a small boy:
Isn't he a sweetie?
So the Legion descend en masse on the Credo HQ to demand their friends be released. On the way there, Jazmin admonishes Kon a couple of times to keep his cool. She's much nicer about it than Cos would have been; I actually quite like Jazmin, she's an awesome leader.
Jazmin: Set translators to Proverso. And remember... nobody does anything... interesting... unless I say so. I'm probably thinking about you, Superboy.
Kon: Ha-ha.
Jazmin: Don't let the scene provoke you, Legion. We have to play this cool. Again, you're in my thoughts, Superboy.
Kon: You know, I kinda dig this reputation...
Things don't go well.
*hugs Lar!*
Okay, so Singularity basically tells them to turn over the Progenitor and he'll release their friends. Naturally, they refuse to turn over an innocent to be killed. They leave. He's actually lying about releasing anybody, as Garth discovers when he sneaks back to turn himself in. Fortunately, this is a very Garth thing to do, and the espionage squad accompanied him in secret, and sprung the prisoners while the rest of the Legion launched an attack.
Did I mention that Lar also has heat vision? (And killer cheekbones?) He does:
Of course, Kon is not idle during the battle either -- he's hanging out with Jo ;D :
o/` "When there's trouble, you know who to call... The TEEN TITAN!" o/`
Okay, yes, I just totally posted those because of my love for the art. Also, it's a really awesome battle; these are just a fraction of it, and I don't think I could do justice to how it ends, but here's a hint: the Legion wins.
And afterwards, Lar introduces two of his favourite people to each other! Superboy, meet R.J. Brande (I wish there'd been dialogue for it -- doesn't Lar look happy?):
Then the Legion goes back to the Milky Way. Kon and Lar fly side-by-side. ♥
...and that's the last time we see Kon in that future. I'm serious. We don't even know how or when he gets home, from this perspective! >:(
...On the other hand, it gives ficcers like me some handy wriggle room. ;3
* Okay, something I find rather interesting is that Imra -- Saturn Girl, who is notorious for being a bit of a bitch and, in this version, occasionally mentally unstable -- always has Kon's back. Especially the first time he showed up. I'm guessing it's because, being a powerful telepath, she can see him for who he really is.
Kon: I'm -- I'm just a walking screw-up, you know?
Imra: Well...I have a sense about you. You may indeed be capable of "screwing up," but when you do -- you just fix it.
--Legionnaires #31
Both of the Superboy fics I've posted on this journal involve Kon's time with the post-boot Legion, so I figured I'd provide a sort of guide to what the hell I'm talking about, here. XD Especially as I plan to post more! Under the cut you will find some issue summaries, and about 20 pictures. HUGE ones, for the most part, sorry. Not for the weak of net connection! All of the pictures are also available in a gallery in my Scrapbook. Most of the scans are from when Kon was stranded in the future (from The Legion #25-33) because I love Batista's art. Thus, this'll begin with storytime as I tell y'all where the relationship between Kon and Lar -- Lar Gand, aka Valor, Mon-El, and M'Onel -- began, a meeting which was unfortunately drawn by Tom Grummet, meaning everyone has the same weird face.
Also, Cosmic Boy is a bitch.
Okay, so first of all, Kon first met Lar when Lar showed up in Hawai'i. Lar was dying of lead poisoning, and the only one who had the cure was Vril Dox -- but Lar didn't even remember his own name, much less that he was an alien who needed to find this other alien to get a shot. He was being used by this asshole gangster/international bookie, Gamboli (Gamboli, gambling -- so original) who blackmailed Kon's agent, Leech, into setting up Superboy for an ambush so he could televise the fight worldwide. He promised Lar, whom he named Champion, that if he won the fight they'd get him the best medical help money could buy to figure out who he was... He also knew Lar was sick.
Kon figures out that "Champ" is sick and being forced to fight pretty quick, actually, despite Lar not breathing a word of it. Unfortunately for him, Knockout joins the fight and goes up against both of the guys -- and the guys the Army sends in. In tanks. Lar's awesome sassy spaceship Babbage flies in the nick of time to fetch Lar and tells him (and Kon) what's up -- but Lar is still delirious and insists that he has to be Valor in space, so he won't let Babbage leave the area until he changes costumes. Knockout jumps up onto the ship and rips out the trans-drive. Kon gets Lar out just before Babbage explodes. ;_; (Good for Lar, but -- I liked Babbage, in the Valor series.)
Superboy drops Knockout onto Gamboli's getaway boat (where she kills him and a bunch of other guys) and carries Lar to STAR Labs, because he knows they have a device that can open a portal to the Stasis/Phantom Zone, and figures putting Lar in there will stop him from dying while Kon goes to find this Vril Dox guy to get the cure. Good plan! But there's a problem. The device in question has never opened a portal big enough for a person to go through before. Kon uses his tactile telekinesis to hold the thing together long enough for Lar to get through --
Lar: Superboy --
Kon: Send me a thank-you bouquet... later, Valor! This... isn't as easy as it looks!
Lar: I just wanted to say that I'll never be able to repay you. Not in a thousand years!
-- but the machine doesn't survive long after. Lar is safe -- but it will take years to try to duplicate the device, and Lar faded out of sight right in front of Kon's eyes. ;_; He kept trying to touch him --
Now, Kon does not actually find Vril Dox. Instead, he finds Querl Dox (and boy, do they get off to a rocky start). I'm not sure exactly how he winds up in the 30th century -- I don't have the first two issues of this story arc, alas, although I'm pretty sure it has to do with how XS wound up in the 20th century, and I choose to blame Bart Allen -- but he convinces the Legion to help him save Valor.
Valor, who is worshipped as a god by the peoples of many planets (including Carggg, where Legionnaire Triad is from). Not knowing this, Superboy accidentally blabs to the galaxy about this, which means the LSH HQ is mobbed. Oops. Fortunately, Brainiac 5 has a cunning plan for dealing with this: namely, they recreate the device Kon used and activate it in front of the mob -- and it appears to fail. Legionnaires are pelted with fruit and shoes. Kon and Brainy escape to the world Lar will now be appearing on, thanks to Brainy building the thing as a remote-activating, time-lapse widget.
And Lar is freed.
For Kon, it's been days, maybe weeks, possibly more than a month. For Lar, it's been one thousand years. A millennium during which he could see and hear everything going on around him, but not be seen or heard in turn, not touch or taste or smell or interact in any way. It has been, in short, torment.
He cries. He grabs Kon.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the last time we see them interact until 2004.
Kon: *sees Triad crying* Brainy... wait. *walks over to her* Hey... It's Valor, right? I know. He wouldn't even say good-bye to me, can you believe it? Just remember, he's been through a lot. He'll come around.
Cosmic Boy gives Kon a Legion ring, making him a member, and Brainy takes him home (and goes to find XS). This is the last nice thing Cos ever does in regards to Kon.
Okay, so, in The Legion #25, Kon is found floating in the D-space of a stargate. (Yes, a stargate -- not the same thing as in those TV shows I watch, and actually I'm pretty sure the Legion usage predates the first Stargate movie by a few decades, since they existed in the Silver Age. Kon keeps calling them "spacegates", Cos keeps correcting him, there's some yelling...) Five weeks after Kon shows up, he's well enough to do a patrol with a squad of Legionnaires -- but they get attacked by some servants of Darkseid. One of them rips the S-shield off his shirt.
This results in a few things, the most adorable of which is Andrew Nolan designing a new costume for him (but not hand-making it, unlike the last costume he gave Kon, when part of the Legion was stuck in the past -- Andrew is from the 20th century, and is a complete sweetheart; I adore him). The new costume is, well -- is there a word that combines 'classic' and 'hot'?
GUH. Batista art for the fucking WIN.
*cough* Anyway! As you can probably understand, when the media catches sight of him in this rig, people go apeshit -- because Valor is not the only one worshipped as a god. The Church of the Last Son follows the philosophy of Superman, supposedly, for example.
Cos is really unhappy about this attention -- Kon keeps saving people, it keeps making the news, cultists keep showing up -- and becomes even more of a bitch. I am about to give you three scans of Cos being a bitch to Kon. They are all from issue #28, and they aren't even all the examples of this from that issue. At one point Kon tries whispering a really relevant observation about what's going on to Imra*, and Brainy tells him "not now, Kon", because Cos is setting a precedent. He starts glaring at Kon whenever he thinks he might speak. He yells at him a lot, and is basically a dick. In every issue. Here are those examples.
Kon has just fought a Servant of Darkseid who was attacking Smallville. There's some property damage, but I personally don't think Kon did anything wrong:
AND it turns out that guy he fought? Allowing the Legion to catch him? Is really fucking important, because he's Clark Kent. Darkseid had grabbed him from before he was ever Superanybody. This is Clue One that the servants are all powerful heroes from the past -- and that Darkseid is messing with the time stream. Does Kon get any cred for this? No. Cos won't even let him offer a suggestion:
So some Servants blow up the Time Institute to stop Brainy and Lyle (Invisible Kid) from tracking what Darkseid's been doing -- incidentally stranding Kon in the future. His short-term memory had been erased when they found him, so he couldn't tell them when to send him back to; devices/scientists/etc. at the Institute were working on figuring this out. Brainy can rebuild a time machine, but it's too dangerous to send him back blind. Meanwhile, the attack allowed Lyle to follow the Servants back, and he discovers that billions of cultists are killing themselves to bring Darkseid back. The Legion decides to take the offensive.
Kon is not allowed to go:
(The shiny guy he's talking to there is Garth Ranzz, aka Livewire, stuck in the body of Jan Arrah, aka Element Lad. So yeah, he understands.)
Kon's not the only one left behind. Jazmin's quantum-based powers seem to be destabilizing, so she stepped down from Legion leadership (putting Cos in charge); Vi was injured in the first attack on Apokalips (to retrieve Lyle), and poor Garth is usually left behind since he came back from the dead in the wrong body, because people find him creepy.
Naturally, these four are the ones who figure out what's actually going on and save the universe and time itself. \o/
First, Kon gives a pep talk:
I love that he does that; Superboy is meant to be inspirational, really, especially when it comes to the Legion of Superheroes. He refuses to give up, and reminds them of what they are.
And he looks so pretty punching Darkseid:
Okay, so what's actually going on is that the Darkseid of now pulled the Darkseid of the past forward in time in order to steal his body. The younger Darkseid killed him instead -- thus dooming the universe, because there was some stuff the older one still had to do to keep it from destroying itself, which the younger one has not yet learned. Jazmin's powers aren't on the fritz, she's been seeing flashes of the four of them stopping this murder and fighting the younger Darkseid back through time to when he came from.
Here's a page of that, just because it looks awesome, and have I ever mentioned how much I love heat vision? It's a thing. (And here's where I got my lovely new icon. ;3)
They get Clark back to normal, repress his memory of what happened, and send him home. Whatever. At this point, something rather surprising happens: Querl finally, one might even say officially, warms to Kon. Not that I'm interpreting "Are you busy this afternoon?" as asking for a date or anything. >.> He said he could use Kon's help. He didn't draft him or order him to be his minion (like he did with Bart, but then again, Bart was aggressively volunteering), he asked. Oh, Querl. ♥
So yeah, as you see, Querl asks for help, Kon says yes, and they are still working on this problem next issue, which is why, in the subjective middle of the night, Querl and Kon and a couple other people are around when Lar finally comes back:
He's been in another galaxy (they keep calling it "the second galaxy"), where some of the Legionnaires had been lost for a year -- where Garth died, in fact, and so did Candi, and Jan, but not until after "the Progenitor" subjugated the hell out of the entire place for eons. Supposedly he was Jan, but I don't buy it; I think that was a storyline change when the DC editors realised that people had already figured out Singularity was the Progenitor -- since it was really obvious -- and they did the same thing with the Hush storyline in Batman. Anyway, what you need to know is that people from this other galaxy think someone who looks like Jan Arrah was this totalitarian rat-bastard/God ...and Garth looks like Jan Arrah, so when some of the hostiles that followed Lar through the Threshold escape home, it's a Bad Thing. The organization is run by Singularity and calls itself Credo, and aims to destroy everything they associate with the Progenitor. And everyone.
Kon doesn't know any of this, because Cos is a bitch:
"Cosmic Boy says I'm not supposed to." Why is that, I wonder? Kon hasn't seen Lar since he got to the future, because Lar is over and away, and Kon's not allowed to know? When everyone in the Legion knows how much those two seem to mean to each other? NOT ON, ROKK.
ANYWAY. More bad news: Lar wasn't alone over there; he and a few other Legionnaires (Chameleon, Kinetix, and Gates) were accompanying R.J. Brande as he spread the United Planets message of peace and co-operation between worlds. Things were going well, right up until they ran into Credo. Singularity, knowing that the Legion had been looking for Jan, since they ran into him before they ran into the Progenitor (another reason to suspect him, and here's a third: the Credo warcry is "One cause of the One! Credo!" ...the One... Singularity... but I digress) and thus declared that the Legion were "of the Progenitor" and had to be destroyed. Lar escaped, but since Garth was spotted, they have a very small window of time to deal with this.
And, uh -- Lar partially dressed in his old costume is... really attractive. And also, as you can see, not a small boy:
Isn't he a sweetie?
So the Legion descend en masse on the Credo HQ to demand their friends be released. On the way there, Jazmin admonishes Kon a couple of times to keep his cool. She's much nicer about it than Cos would have been; I actually quite like Jazmin, she's an awesome leader.
Jazmin: Set translators to Proverso. And remember... nobody does anything... interesting... unless I say so. I'm probably thinking about you, Superboy.
Kon: Ha-ha.
Jazmin: Don't let the scene provoke you, Legion. We have to play this cool. Again, you're in my thoughts, Superboy.
Kon: You know, I kinda dig this reputation...
Things don't go well.
*hugs Lar!*
Okay, so Singularity basically tells them to turn over the Progenitor and he'll release their friends. Naturally, they refuse to turn over an innocent to be killed. They leave. He's actually lying about releasing anybody, as Garth discovers when he sneaks back to turn himself in. Fortunately, this is a very Garth thing to do, and the espionage squad accompanied him in secret, and sprung the prisoners while the rest of the Legion launched an attack.
Did I mention that Lar also has heat vision? (And killer cheekbones?) He does:
Of course, Kon is not idle during the battle either -- he's hanging out with Jo ;D :
o/` "When there's trouble, you know who to call... The TEEN TITAN!" o/`
Okay, yes, I just totally posted those because of my love for the art. Also, it's a really awesome battle; these are just a fraction of it, and I don't think I could do justice to how it ends, but here's a hint: the Legion wins.
And afterwards, Lar introduces two of his favourite people to each other! Superboy, meet R.J. Brande (I wish there'd been dialogue for it -- doesn't Lar look happy?):
Then the Legion goes back to the Milky Way. Kon and Lar fly side-by-side. ♥
...and that's the last time we see Kon in that future. I'm serious. We don't even know how or when he gets home, from this perspective! >:(
...On the other hand, it gives ficcers like me some handy wriggle room. ;3
* Okay, something I find rather interesting is that Imra -- Saturn Girl, who is notorious for being a bit of a bitch and, in this version, occasionally mentally unstable -- always has Kon's back. Especially the first time he showed up. I'm guessing it's because, being a powerful telepath, she can see him for who he really is.
Kon: I'm -- I'm just a walking screw-up, you know?
Imra: Well...I have a sense about you. You may indeed be capable of "screwing up," but when you do -- you just fix it.
--Legionnaires #31
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is there a word that combines 'classic' and 'hot'?
...clhottic?
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I understand completely! XD And I kinda expected that reaction, really. NNNGH BATISTA ART ♥
Clhottic sounds vaguely dirty and/or insectoid to me, for some reason...