Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #2

Brian Michael Bendis Writer

Nicola Scott, Jim Cheung, Jeff Dekal and Ryan Cook Artists

Tomeu Morey and Jordie Bellaire Colorists

Dave Sharpe Letterer

Ryan Sook Cover

Bryan Hitch and Alex Sinclair Variant Cover Artists

Brittany Holzherr Associate Editor

Brian Cunningham Editor

Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Superboy created by Jerry Siegel.

By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family.

Our cover shows Superboy being welcomed into the Legion of Super-Heroes with his very own Legion Ring. It's beautiful. It's joyful. It's exciting. And also heart-breaking. I will forever mourn Jon Kent's lost childhood (he basically went from 10 to 17 overnight, while Damian Wayne has been able to stay 13 for a solid decade). But, this is not a Superboy blog, nor a Legion blog, so those complaints are neither here nor there. This is an Impulse blog, and since Bart Allen didn't appear on the variant cover, we're going to skip it.

And since this is an Impulse blog, we only care about the background images of one page of this comic. And those images appear as holograms in a museum in the future. We see the current group of Young Justice remembered in the Hall of Heroes a thousand years later, as well as the Teen Titans lineup of Bart, Conner, Cassie and Tim working under Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven. The latter is most surprising, but it seems that continuity has been restored somehow.

Bendis defecting to DC from Marvel was probably the company's most high-profile creator acquisition since Jim Lee. As such, he was essentially given the keys to the kingdom. He got Superman, Young Justice, the Legion and more. And he likes to periodically weave his titles together, creating the burning need (in geeks like me) for some answers as to how the pieces fit exactly. Naturally, the longer we wait for a resolution, the more worried I become that we won't get one, or, equally bad, the answers provided will be rushed, contradictory and unsatisfying (see Scott Lobdell in the New 52). Time will tell. In the meantime, let's look at the new ads:

Two pages dedicated to the new Legion of Super-Heroes series launching out of this title, which Bendis calls the biggest thing he's ever done in comics.

Joe Hill presents Hill House comics. A new line of comics dedicated to bone-chilling horror featuring new and well-known creative voices.

A DC Nation interview with Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity artists Mico Suayan and Mike Mayhew.

Next time, we return to Young Justice #9.