#Magnetic Kid

[sprockyeahlegion]

“Gooo!”

[splooosh]

“all the ancients were a bit unusual”

Keith Giffen

[evilhorse]

Surrender in the name of the Earth government!

[cantsayidont]

January 1990. The dilemma with crowded team books like LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES is that even if there's a consistent creative team with coherent plans, the sheer size of the cast means that some characters and plot threads tend to fade in and out. The first third of the previous LEGION book, by Paul Levitz, had indicated that there was something going on between Lightning Lass (Ayla Ranzz) and Shrinking Violet (Salu Dibgy), but by issue #51, following the death of Superboy and a bunch of other events, it appears to have cooled, and Ayla began quite aggressively hitting on Rokk Krinn's younger brother Pol (Magnetic Kid), who was considerably younger than she and seemed dismayed by her attentions. It's not exactly clear what happened with her and Vi: After the death of Superboy (on whom Vi had had a doomed and distant crush as a kid), Vi became significantly more brusque and abrasive with her teammates, but I'm not sure if Levitz intended to suggest that her harsher attitude was because she'd had a falling out with Ayla or if Vi's attitude was the cause of their subsequent distance; either way, it's tempting to read Ayla's flirtation with Pol as a reaction to it.

Pol died at the end of that series, and the first issue of this one revealed that during the five-year gap, Vi had been drafted into the Imskian army, fought in the war between Rokk and Pol's home planet of Braal, been involved in a war crime, and ended up in the stockade for refusing to keep quiet about it. During that time, she and Ayla had begun writing to each other, and the issue culminates in Vi, newly released from the stockade, deciding to join Ayla on the ranch of Ayla's brother Garth (the former Lightning Lad) on their home planet Winath. In the page above, from issue #3, Vi is now on Winath with Ayla, and they're clearly together. Here they are in issue #20, after rejoining the reformed Legion:

(Vi got her leg blown off by Roxxas in issue #10, and is grousing because Brainiac 5 has arranged a synthetic replacement that's obviously the wrong color. The reason their quarters look like this is that the new Legion headquarters on the Talus asteroid was previously a brothel.)

Ayla and Vi remained together after this, until the post-Zero Hour reboot in 1994 wiped out this timeline and no-homo'd them. They've been back together in some but not all of the various subsequent reboots.

[protytwo]

Legion Headquarters from LSH #22 by Greg LaRocque and Mike DeCarlo.

[lesterspiffany]

I’m guessing this is magnetic kid, not Cosmic Boy

[demigod-shenanigans]

Leo complaining about Jason pulling all the girls is even funnier when you realize the girls he’s pulling are like. Repressed queer girl destined by the goddess of love not to end up with him. Repressed queer girl that’s probably not even into guys. Drew.

None of them are girls Leo is even remotely interested in romantically. Percy also gets a lot of romantic attention—arguably more than Jason—and Leo isn’t bothered by that.

Buddy, I don’t think you’re jealous of the attention Jason is getting for the reason you think you are.

[lenichque]

post-divorce battle of erik's kids that are trying to bring erik and charles back together vs. the rest of the xkids from the mansion that are trying to keep them as far away from each other as possible

[ballnutty]

Hi tumblr….did you miss me….I’ve returned with some Marvel siblings in my style…..

[hyunpic]

DAILY HYUNJIN GIFS UNTIL HIS BDAY: love you and all your little things - everything is better when laying down

[chipper-smol]

When no one is looking...

[sprockyeahlegion]

“not bad”

[apirateslifeforbudgie]

Sneak peek of the Devil Fruit stickers I plan to offer on my ko-fi soon ✨

[evilhorse]

Legion of Super-Heroes #62

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jin Ling: Master Sleuth

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[protytwo]

Sensor Girl and everybody else by Greg LaRocque and Mike DeCarlo.