Analysis Notes
| Cover |
Bandarkat’s paw can be seen on the left side of
the cover. None of the other arms are identifiable. |
| General |
All the scenes taking place on Planet Hell have washed
out colors and very little in terms of shadows, an intentional decision
to emphasize the pervasive ambient light from being in the center of
a sun. |
| 1:2 |
Credit the dialogue to Invisible Kid. (Triad would
say “Blessed Trinity,” not “My God!”) |
| 2/3 |
Roll call images do not count as panel appearances. |
| The hairy creature with the bandage-swathed
head is based on < >. The woman next to it is Caress, a
woman who emits acid from her hands; in the preboot, Caress joined the
second version of the Fatal Five (Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #27).
The floating brains are Brain Globes, from the planet Gil’D.
The shirtless man with the facial tattoo is Titanor. The pink
woman is presumably Korugarian (somewhat lighter colored due to the
bright light), and the feline behind her is Bandarkat. |
| The amoeba (far right) reappears in 14:1. The green
bat is in 8:2. The red demon (middle of page 2) is in 11:4-5.
The orange character with the beak (background of page 2) is in 16:4.
The pointy-haired boss (far left) is in 16:2. The one with the
X-shaped antennae is in 20:1. |
| 4:1 |
That is Titanor in the lead. |
| 4:2 |
Yeah, they could have just used their jetpacks, couldn’t
they? Later on, once the flight rings are invented and become
second nature, this would not have been a problem. |
| Invisible Kid is scared of heights. He is yelling
as much from fear as surprise at being snatched up by Leviathan. |
| 5:1 |
In both Legionnaires #21 and Legionnaires
#22, this was an apparently vertical shaft. Jenni is fast enough,
though, to run up sheer surfaces; her grandfather could, after all. |
| Eventually, Jenni will learn how to add speed to things,
although whether that will really boost things which don’t deal
with friction (like the jetpacks) is uncertain. |
| 6:1 |
It isn’t clear whether Ayla’s “Magnet
Boy” is an attempt at a nickname or uncertainty on her part as
to what all her teammates’ codenames are; this is her first mission,
after all. |
| 6:4 |
Knowing the Athramites, the jetpacks were designed as
much to be fashionable as functional. |
| Credit the off-panel dialogue to Spark. |
| 7:1 |
They are also White Triangle-funded. |
| 7:2, 7:4 |
This is the first evidence of Invisible Kid being able
to extend his powers beyond his immediate body and clothing (besides
his hand appearing before the rest of his body in Legion of Super-Heroes
v4 #62). He’ll later do the trick with the outside of his
body and with entire other people. |
| 7:3 |
Interlac translation: there appears to be some lettering
on the side of the ship. If the letters are Interlac (doubtful),
they are “ka”. |
| The “forbidden asteroid” is Asteroid 42464-ST,
a storehouse of forbidden weaponry. |
| 8:1 |
Is there truly no other solution than to trap the Legionnaires
with the convicts, dooming them to die if Brainy can’t fix things?
Surely there are simple ways to disable the ships — pull their
spark plugs or something like that. |
| Although Leviathan’s dialog indicates that the gold
ship is the Legion’s stargater, this is the main White Triangle
ship, as seen more clearly in 11:1. |
| The sharp-cornered lump on Leviathan’s back might
be his jetpack, although it should have been shed when he grew.
Probably just a minor art error. |
| 8:2 |
Coloring error: while the pink coloration on white parts
of costumes is meant to indicate the bright light from the red sun surrounding
Planet Hell, it is a bit haphazardly placed here, especially on Triad’s
outfits. |
| 9:2 |
See notes in the analysis of Legionnaires
#21 about the doubtful nature of the “five years” figure. |
| 9:3 |
This must be Roxxas that Bur Rac is communicating with.
Roderick Doyle is in prison. The broken communications with Leland
McCauley in 12:2 could indicate that this is McCauley, but there is
no other evidence to link him with the White Triangle. McCauley
is unethical, yes, but not evil. |
| Note that Roxxas is commenting that communication difficulties
have stymied rapid advancement of his plans. This fits in with
various other communication burps throughout the postboot relating to
Planet Hell, Xanthu, and Titan. The United Planets has hopefully
improved interplanetary communications, making the White Triangle’s
problems that much more ironic: the very thing that advances their cause
is what they are opposed to. |
| 9:4 |
Bur Rac is hearing Leviathan smashing the ships.
So much for the imminent exodus. |
| 10:1-2 |
The brown-skinned character may be a miscolored Titanor,
but because he reappears several times in the story, we will assume
he is a different shirtless man. (Such would definitely seem to
be the case from page 23.) |
| 10:2 |
Titanor’s thigh is seen in this panel. |
| 10:3 |
This does not count as a panel appearance for Invisible
Kid |
| 10:5 |
One of the weaknesses of the preboot Lyle Norg’s
serum was that it only made him invisible, not otherwise untrackable;
it reacted better with Jacques Foccart. Here and in a later conflict
with the Fatal Five, we see the same weakness for the postboot serum. |
| 11:1 |
Credit the dialogue to Triad. |
| 11:3-4 |
She does a similar trick with pain in Legionnaires
#22. Her powers will eventually expand past this being a single-target
ability. |
| 12:1 |
Triad’s legs are in the foreground. |
| 12:2 |
Inferno and maybe Live Wire could be expected to deal
with the light somewhat better than the others. |
| 12:4 |
This does not count as a speaking appearance for Leland
McCauley. |
| 13:3 |
McCauley won’t be happy about that. He’ll
bill Brande for a new ship, no doubt. |
| 13:4 |
Caress is behind Ultra Boy. |
| 14:3 |
Coloring errors: Caress’ shirt has mysteriously
disappeared, and the brown-skinned being has spikes on his head, marking
him as the red-skinned one in 14:1, while the red-skinned one here was
the brown-skinned one in 14:1. |
| 14:1-3 |
Titanor is in all three panels. |
| 14:4 |
Spider Girl seems distinctly unhappy to have been rescued.
Mostly, this is because she expected to have Ultra Boy jump when she
called, but also, McCauley has probably drilled into the WorkForce members
how superior they are to the Legionnaires, so it would really gall Spider
Girl to have to be rescued by one of them. |
| 15:1 |
Titanian, actually. The Brain Globes must not differentiate
being from a planet and its moon. |
| 15:5 |
There is the spike-headed fellow from 14:3 again, wrapped
up in whatever Rokk controlled in that earlier panel. |
| 16:1 |
Durlan translation: “Yeow!” one would presume. |
| Inferno burned someone to death in Legionnaires
#21. Since we see her flames continuing in 16:3 and 17:2, this
is probably another death at her hands. |
| 16:3 |
Triad and Inferno get locked up together in Legionnaires
#22. This scene may explain some of Inferno’s animosity toward
Triad (but most of it is her animosity toward everyone). |
| 17:1 |
This convict is apparently a Sklarian. |
| And Tinya will continue to protect the dense ones, even
after she “dies”: “Be tough, Jo.” |
| 17:4-18:1 |
This convict is wearing some sort of mouthpiece or bit
gag. Perhaps he is from Bismoll? |
| 18:2 |
Brainy ignores things; he is not ignorant of them. |
| 18:3 |
As seen with Nara Minsork in < >,
facial tattoos are a mark of Titanian criminals. |
| 18:4 |
This counts as an appearance for Spider Girl. |
| 18:5 |
Further proof that Imra’s powers will grow over
time. (On the other hand, Titanor has obviously rejected some
of the traditional controls imposed on Titanian telepaths, one of which
might be to limit the sphere on influence. Thus only once Dr.
Psycho breaks Imra’s training will she be able to access this broader
spectrum of powers.) |
| 19:1 |
XS and Karate Kid will be locked up together in Legionnaires
#22. |
| 19:2 |
This is the only time Evolvo has displayed telekinesis.
Given that he missed Titanor, he may not have much control over the
ability, and it may be difficult for him to use at all. |
| 19:4 |
All Planet Hell is breaking loose. |
| 20:3 |
The WorkForce ship was also a Mark-459 cruiser. |
| 22:3 |
Tinya looks just a bit too happy here. |
| Chameleon is still peeved at Inferno from 16:1. |
| 23 |
Titanor is either in the lower left or the upper right.
None of the other convicts can be clearly identified. |
