Legion of Superheroes Homage to Starfire Issue 1

Long before Gerorge Perez introduced us to an alien Teen Titan from Tamaran, there was another heroine by the same name who did not survive the DC Implosion. She was a princess fighting aliens and as my friend Miki Annamanthadoo once said "With each subsequent issue, her costume became shorter and shorter.."

The first issue of this series caught me eye .A hot pink sky background helped . It shows Starfire who has a sword at the throat of her enemy as utters the words ..."You kept my race in chains, you ,murdered the man I love and you DARE ASK FOR MERCY ???" This screamed Re-Legion as it dovetailed into Legion mythos with Princess Projectra of Orando..

I found again, another CAF new artist called Peter Temple who had done a Projectra image I liked. He doesnt really do covers but was up for the challenge. I sent him the following background info compliments of Hero history on Major Spoliers.com so he could understand what I was aiming for.

Projectra becomes Queen of Orando after her fathers death. She marries Karate Kid, her teamate and long-time love. Their happiness was, sadly, short-lived as the Legion of Super-Villains reforms, more powerful and dangerous than ever, with a new creed: Each LSV member will KILL a member of the LSH to prove their loyalty. A traitor to one Legion, Nemesis Kid (I told you to remember this jerk) sets his sights on the man who once exposed his betrayal:Karate Kid.

The entire planet of Orando is teleported out of our dimension, and the LSV nearly succeeds, until Karate Kid sacrifices himself to stop their plot. As the LSV falls apart, and the Legionnaires regroup, Nemesis Kid finds himself on the receiving end of poetic justice (see the additional images below )

Nemesis is not impressed, quickly evolving a defense against her illusions, but Projectra keeps coming. He looks into her eye, and something that he sees there throws him. (see image below )

The man who could fight Superboy or Mon-El hand to hand hesitates, for a split second. Jeckie takes her opening, stepping forward and grabbing him by the neck as she explains just what a worthless sack of crap he is, and exactly what the words “I claim your life” mean when spoken by the Queen of a medieval world where knights and honor aren’t just things of the past.

Peter caught the icy anger I wanted and brought it to the piece . Chris Ivy as usual ramped it up several notches and inked the heck of it. I love the symbolic touch of the Yin/Yang ( Karate Kid's Legion Mission Board symbol ) hovering in the smoke.

My last post by John Watson gave us a beginng, this great piece gives us an ending but there is always a turn of the wheel ( or a DC reboot ) which gives us hope that Val & Jeckie will be reunited again.

I enjoyed working with Peter Temple and recommend him to others. He was fast also. He is working on some other pieces but I am glad he took a shot at "An EYE for an EYE'