The Blight from the previous volume is referred to, and hinted at as possibly being responsible for fractious personalities above and beyond what circumstances would cause, which are slowly tearing the team apart. It’s mimicked by Pascal Alixe for the chapters he draws. There’s also an abstraction to the enemies the Legion face, and the layouts are messy, a deliberate disorientation reflecting the Legion’s circumstances, but a messy look is a messy look. In Volume 1 he moved away from the clear, glossy visuals common to earlier incarnations, but here Coipel reduces the cast to lumpy people or scratchy, angular forms, with lines on faces making it seem as if the women as well as the men have five o’clock shadow. The Legionnaires take turns to narrate successive chapters as they search for a way home.Ĭoipel’s brief seems to have been to alter the look of the Legion as drastically as the writers changed the status quo, but it’s not as successful. The introduction of Shikari provides an alternative encyclopedia to the politics and beings of their new vicinity, and she adds to the power dynamic by being an instinctive tracker. Abnett and Lanning have some Legion technology work, like their universal translators and communicators, but flight rings are inactive, a fundamental limitation to the Legion. Restricting their cast to a compact nine Legion members from all those available reduces them to a manageable core, and transporting them somewhere unknown, possibly beyond the mapped universe, opens new possibilities.
One of their members has placed the remaining Legionnaires in stasis until awoken by a hunted refugee name Shikari. Trapped in an outpost, they’re catapulted somewhere unknown to all their direction-finding and location tools. They subsequently decided to have a few Legion members cast adrift from their 30 th century familiarity as Legion Lost, under which title these twelve chapters were first collected in 2011. By 2000 the Legion of Super-Heroes franchise had completely lost its way and was turned over to the writing team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and artist Olivier Coipel, who made some drastic changes in approach as seen in Vol ume 1.
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