L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #52 pg 19

Over a year ago, I picked up a lot of three L.E.G.I.O.N. pages from eBay, all done by what I would call "unusual" artists, because none of them were mainstays on the title. This first one is pencilled by Scott Kolins, which is neat, because he would go on to be the main penciller of two separate Legion of Super-Heroes titles, but his work on this fill-in issue of an LSH spinoff series predates them both!

Here we see the team's R.E.C.R.U.I.T.S. (a task force of more inexperienced super-powered members) trying to honour the last wishes of their fellow team member Darius (that's his head Vril Dox is holding). Darius was a cyborg, and his last request before his body was destroyed was that the R.E.C.R.U.I.T.S. reunite him with his creator. No one knows who Darius's creator is, or where Darius even came from, but a brawl with Lobo (who had stolen poor Darius's head with plans to use it as a hood ornament for his motorcycle!) draws the attention of Vril Dox, who examines Darius's wiring and is able to offer some insights.

For a bunch of random characters who were introduced nearly halfway into the series, I always liked the R.E.C.R.U.I.T.S., so I'm happy to have a page that features so many of them (Davroth Catto, Zena Moonstruk, Amon Hakk, Borb Borbb, Bertron Diib, and Darius's head), and I'm especially always happy to find another page with Vril Dox on it. Kolins and Percy put an impressive amount of detail into this page, and I find some of it gets a bit lost in the coloured final version, so I'm happy to share the original art so we can all admire the details as they were intended to be seen. I particularly enjoy the hatching on Darius's head in the first two panels, and all that glorious futuristic lab equipment in panel four.