Major Spoilers Podcast #926: Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes

05/12/21 • 61 min

This week, it is two great tastes that taste great together as Star Trek: TOS and The Legion of Super-Heroes team to take on a world they didn't create! Plus, we review Time Before Time #1, Commanders in Crisis #5, Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here #6, and Nuclear Power #2. All this, and a heaping helping of poutine on the Major Spoilers Podcast!

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NEWS

https://variety.com/2021/tv/asia/ms-marvel-series-completes-production-thailand-1234970477/
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dave-bautista-knives-out-sequel-1234970064/
http://majorspoilers.com/2021/05/11/boom-studios-announces-wwe-the-new-day-power-of-positivity/

REVIEWS

STEPHEN
TIME BEFORE TIME #1
Writer: Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville
Artist: Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 12, 2021
The year is 2140, and to escape a world with no future, many turn to the Syndicate, a criminal organization who, for the right price, will smuggle you back in time to a better life. After working for the Syndicate for years, Tatsuo and Oscar decide to steal one of their boss's time machines-but soon find that the one thing you can't run from is your past.
[rating:4.5/5] MATTHEW
COMMANDERS IN CRISIS #8
Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist: DAvide Tinto
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 5, 2021
Despite the Crisis Command's best efforts, reality is turning more toxic by the day. While Prizefighter runs with American Dreamer, Seer investigates the hidden origins of masked heroism. Can the Crisis Command learn fast enough to stop the Extinction Society from pushing Earth past the point of no return?
[rating:4/5] RODRIGO
RESIDENT ALIEN: YOU RIDE'S HERE #6
Writer: Peter Hogan
Artist: Steve Parkhouse
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 12, 2021
A lonely alien explorer stranded on earth pretends to be a small-town family doctor - while cultivating relationships with the locals and solving strange mysteries. Harry discovers a renewed sense of purpose when he joins Patience residents in the search for an abducted child. And someone's ride shows up.
[rating: 4.5/5] ASHLEY
NUCLEAR POWER #2
Writer: Desirée Proctor & Erica Harrell
Artist: Lynne Yoshii
Publisher: Fanbase Press
Cover Price: $0.99
Release Date: May 19, 2021
October of 1962. The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union is at its peak when the unthinkable happens: nuclear war. Sixty years later, the remaining 13 states rose from the ashes to form the American Union, governed by the authoritarian Joint Chiefs of Staff and protected by a border wall to keep out nuclear radiation . . . and the individuals who were enhanced by it. Nuclear Power is a darkly poignant alternate history of the Cuban Missile Crisis that posits the lengths to which a government will go to protect (or deceive) its citizens. When the Joint Chiefs’ dark secrets are revealed, will survivors on both sides of the wall join forces to fight for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or will their differences forever divide them?
[rating: 5/5]

DISCUSSION

Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 1
Writer: Chris Roberson
Artist: Jeffrey Moy
Publisher: IDW Publishing/DC Comics
IDW Publishing and DC Comics are proud to present the greatest tale of the 23rd century! Or is that the 31st century? The crew of the Starship: Enterprise and the Legion of Super-Heroes come face to face as they deal with a changed history and timeline that neither knows the cause of. Traveling to the past and the future to find answers both teams must work together to set things right.
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Legion Clubhouse #97: Something is Wrong with Brainiac 5

Seriously, something is wrong with Brainiac 5, as we celebrate 250 issues of Superboy.

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SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #249
"Capital Crimes of the Chemical Conqueror!"
March 1979
w:Gerry Conway
a: Joe Staton

Mantis Morlo returns, and he's up to his old Chemoid tricks!

"The Arctoraan Jewel Case"
March 1979
w:Paul Kupperberg
a: Joe Staton

Chameleon Boy tries to unravel an unsolvable crime!

SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #250
"This Is The Day The Universe Dies!"
April 1979
w: Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (plot); Paul Levitz (script)
a: Jim Starlin/Dave Hunt

Who killed An Ryd? And what is the threat of... OMEGA?

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Legion Clubhouse #98: Well, He's Still A Raving Loony

One member of the Legion has gone mad with power! Will his teammates talk him down, or will the universe be destroyed!?

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SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #251
"The Man Who Destroyed the Universe!"
May 1979
w: Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (story); Paul Levitz (words)
a: Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo]

The Legion faces one of their own gone mad!

SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #252
"Postscript to Holocaust"
June 1979
w: Gerry Conway
a: Joe Staton

Matter-Eater Lad has eaten the Miracle Machine... but will he survive?