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04/16/2004, 11:53
Continuing with a series of threads on some of your favourite Clix characters and the best comics they’ve appeared in.
Please feel free to post your favourite storyline, issue or one-shot about the featured character. Give a description too, if you’re up to it. Who knows, maybe someone who hadn’t given this character a chance might change their mind and check out your recommendation.
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Cosmic Boy
My favourite story:
Mettle
From Legion of Super-Heroes (v.2) #297
Writer: Paul Levitz
Artists: Keith Giffen
One of my favourite Cosmic Boy stories was “Mettle” set in the Levitz-Giffen era of the Legion, shortly after the Great Darkness Saga. The story opens with Cosmic Boy trashing a Science Police Transport carrying prisoners to Takron Galtos. Three of the Prisoners are the terrorists captured by the Legion in the previous issue after they had set off a contained nuclear explosion in a Metropolis neighborhood and tried to hold the rest of the city for ransom. One of the families living in the attack zone was Cosmic Boy’s.
Cosmic Boy tears into the cruiser looking for blood, out-muscling a number of SP Officers along the way, before Night Girl (his girlfriend from the Subs) knocks him out. She, and the rest of the Legion (who arrive shortly after she does) take Rokk to the hospital. When he comes to, he reminisces about his life before the Legion and we get his view of his early days with the group, before he gets word on the status of his family. His dad and brother are in serious condition. His mom doesn’t make it.
Rokk, sucker punches Night Girl and goes after the terrorists a second time. The Legion pursues, but Sun Boy instructs the team to hold back and observe. Rokk hauls the thugs out of the cruiser using the iron in their blood. He begins to manipulate it in a bid to boil their blood and kill all three of them very painfully. He stops at the last minute, imaginig their vital signs flatlining like his mother’s did. “I’d be no better than you,” He sobs and lets them go, back into police custody. Sun Boy says he knew Rokk would make the right decision, but had to do it on his own. Tired and grief-stricken, Cos flies away, still a true hero.
This was a great issue, focusing on a character I had felt little for previously, but walked away a big fan of. Not only did Levitz use these incidents to amp up Cosmic Boy’s power to Magneto-like levels (He tried several things with his magnetism he’d never done before – Iron in the blood, flying under his own power on Magnetic currents, manipulating computers, etc), but he really humanized a character who’d been in the background for some time (He had ceased being the perennial leader long before this issue, and it wasn’t for a few years yet that he’d return to that role).
Rokk’s personal tradgedy was very touching, and it was very uplifting to see him remain a hero and not stain his hands with blood by the end of the story.
Just another Legion gem from Paul Levitz.
Please feel free to post your favourite storyline, issue or one-shot about the featured character. Give a description too, if you’re up to it. Who knows, maybe someone who hadn’t given this character a chance might change their mind and check out your recommendation.
Up next:
Cosmic Boy
My favourite story:
Mettle
From Legion of Super-Heroes (v.2) #297
Writer: Paul Levitz
Artists: Keith Giffen
One of my favourite Cosmic Boy stories was “Mettle” set in the Levitz-Giffen era of the Legion, shortly after the Great Darkness Saga. The story opens with Cosmic Boy trashing a Science Police Transport carrying prisoners to Takron Galtos. Three of the Prisoners are the terrorists captured by the Legion in the previous issue after they had set off a contained nuclear explosion in a Metropolis neighborhood and tried to hold the rest of the city for ransom. One of the families living in the attack zone was Cosmic Boy’s.
Cosmic Boy tears into the cruiser looking for blood, out-muscling a number of SP Officers along the way, before Night Girl (his girlfriend from the Subs) knocks him out. She, and the rest of the Legion (who arrive shortly after she does) take Rokk to the hospital. When he comes to, he reminisces about his life before the Legion and we get his view of his early days with the group, before he gets word on the status of his family. His dad and brother are in serious condition. His mom doesn’t make it.
Rokk, sucker punches Night Girl and goes after the terrorists a second time. The Legion pursues, but Sun Boy instructs the team to hold back and observe. Rokk hauls the thugs out of the cruiser using the iron in their blood. He begins to manipulate it in a bid to boil their blood and kill all three of them very painfully. He stops at the last minute, imaginig their vital signs flatlining like his mother’s did. “I’d be no better than you,” He sobs and lets them go, back into police custody. Sun Boy says he knew Rokk would make the right decision, but had to do it on his own. Tired and grief-stricken, Cos flies away, still a true hero.
This was a great issue, focusing on a character I had felt little for previously, but walked away a big fan of. Not only did Levitz use these incidents to amp up Cosmic Boy’s power to Magneto-like levels (He tried several things with his magnetism he’d never done before – Iron in the blood, flying under his own power on Magnetic currents, manipulating computers, etc), but he really humanized a character who’d been in the background for some time (He had ceased being the perennial leader long before this issue, and it wasn’t for a few years yet that he’d return to that role).
Rokk’s personal tradgedy was very touching, and it was very uplifting to see him remain a hero and not stain his hands with blood by the end of the story.
Just another Legion gem from Paul Levitz.