Adventure Comics #527 Review

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Paul Levitz’ tales of the Legion Academy continue in Adventure Comics 527, with a story focusing on Comet Queen, one of the long time students.

Adventure Comics #527

She tells her story to Glorith, in-between various training sessions and the like. Basically, Comet Queen grew up a big Legion fan, developed a stalker-like crush on Bouncing Boy of all people, and then tried to recreate some of the Legionnaires’ origins. The brush with a comet gave her powers, and she ended up in the Academy, after being forcefully dragged off Bouncing Boy by his wife, Duplicate Girl anyway.

Comet Queen, to her dismay, was sent to the Legion of Substitute Heroes. She tried to make the best of it, and responded to the disaster seen in the first arc of the new Legion book when Titan was destroyed. Like several other heroes, she ran into Saturn Queen in the ruins, and SQ mind-wiped much of Comet Queen’s life. She can’t recall most of her Legion Training, her first kiss, and much of the rest of her life. But she remains upbeat, somehow, and is looking forward to graduating. Again. I’d hope it turns out better for her this time, but with the pending major reboot of the DCU into DC nU, I’m not sure how much it will matter.

What I liked and what I didn’t:

Levitz did a good job here. What could have been a tragic tale was kept from that by the force of Comet Queen’s relentlessly sunny personality. She just won’t give in to bad news, tragedy, or anything else. And she’s believable, not over done- she cried when she heard about the destruction of Titan, she’s not almost heartlessly cheery like some folks end up coming across.

I don’t like when seemingly needless bad things happen to characters, and I don’t know why they decided to do this to Comet Queen, who has always been a fun, if not the most effective, ditz. And maybe I’m just overly sensitive to things right now, but they essentially just re-booted the character here, which there’s been more than enough of, with apparently much more to come.

A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConsa great character study of an obscure characterrandom reboot via un-needed tragedy Rating75% Tags: Adventure Comics Comet Queen Legion of Super Heroes Legion Training Academy Paul Levitz

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