From: [c--ve--n] at [cae.wisc.edu] (Michael Blakeman Cleveland)
Subject: ZERO HOUR SUMMARIES: 5/7: LEGIONNAIRES #18
Date: 18 Jul 1994 17:40:37 GMT


Minor spoiler review:  when I walked up to the counter with my purchases
this week, the store owner said to me, "Did you get Legionnaires this
week?  Yep.  Man, Greg and I read this, and we couldn't figure out
what was going on."

Warning:  If you're not already involved in the grand mess that is 
Legion continuity, don't try to start here.

Recommendation:  If you're not a Legion fan or a fanatic Zero Hour 
completist, don't even think about it.

The very end of the issue follows from Zero Hour #4 and into Valor #23,
but I sort of doubt that it will go back into Zero Hour.

The only connection that probably will extend _into_ Zero Hour is that
there are some Legionnaires trapped in the 20th century who get recruited
by Superman.

Summary w/ spoilers:




































OK, first, i'll get the crossover stuff out of the way.  Live Wire, Cosmic
Boy and Saturn Girl (the new, younger Legionnaires) took a time bubble and
vanished a couple issues back.  They finally arrive, out of control, in
the 20th century and are saved by Jo Nah (of the older LSH) who is back in
time searching for Tinya Wazzo (whose _sister_ is Phase of L.E.G.I.O.N.  
Aaargh.)  This occurs just in time for them to receive Superman's recruitment
message.

The rest of the issue is divided into two plots:  One,  Rokk Krinn (LSH) 
is strolling around the Infinite Library, finds a door, opens it and 
finds the Time Trapper, freshly pummelled by somebody in ZH4 (as we learn in 
Valor 23).  Phew, that wasn't so bad.

Okay, deep breath.  I'm not even going to try to go into detail on the main
plot.  In the first three parts of this storyline, longtime Legion foes
Glorith and Mordru formed an alliance to defeat another villain (the Time 
Trapper).  They locked Rokk away in the Infinite Library because of his 
connection to their foe.  Meanwhile, the combined might of all the current
and former Legionnaires (both groups) is gathered to combat Mordru and
Glorith.  One problem:  the Legionnaires keep disappearing, and time 
anomalies keep switching versions of them.  Got it? Hang on.  Mordru and
Glorith summon up yet another all-powerful Legion villain, the Infinite
Man, and steal his power.  Now, for L* #18:

Glorith and Mordru use their power to alter the world so that they have
always ruled.  The magicians try to stop them by casting a spell using
Devlin O'Ryan as the focus while the others run interference against
the evil Legionnaires from the newly created universe.  This plan looks
real good until Devlin vanishes.  Then, in a poorly drawn sequence I don't
understand, Alchemist (of L*) and Jan Arrah (of LSH) (must be inadvertantly)
kill someone (the evil Chemical King?) and Furball disappears.  Mysa 
(formerly the White Witch) has recently developed an attachment to Furball,
and grieving over his loss, surrenders all of her powers to Amethyst, who 
manages to disrupt Mordru's spell and restore the universe (just before she
too disappears).  Of course, Mordru and Glorith are still free.

Boy, if that was the simple version, I don't want to try the complex one.

Michael