Justice League of Earth
3005 - Kirt Neidrigh stirs anti-alien fanaticism on Earth with the Dominators gone and Earth Gov in shambles. He begins assembling the Justice League of Earth. Membership: 29-year-old Kirt Neidrigh, 30-year-old Klint Stewirt, 24-year-old Roy Travich, 25-year-old Sussa Paka, 32-year-old Myke Chypurz, 19-year-old Horace Lafeaugh
3007 - Kirt Neidrigh stages the discovery of a crystal tablet proving that Superman was human. The Justice League of Earth goes public and stages a coup to control Earth's population. 27-year-old Dirk Morgna, who was being used by the League as a fuel source, is brought out of his coma and helps the Legion of Super-Heroes defeat the League with his nova blast, expending the last of his powers. Kirt is defeated by Val Armorr. Membership: 31-year-old Kirt Neidrigh, 32-year-old Klint Stewirt, 26-year-old Roy Travich, 27-year-old Sussa Paka, 34-year-old Myke Chypurz, 21-year-old Horace Lafeaugh
Members
Over the course of the Legion of Super-Heroes long run, one idea introduced early and seemed to persist throughout their entire history was that the Legion held regular tryouts to expand their ranks, leaving an ever-growing catalog of rejected candidates. All of those rejected heroes took a variety of paths, with some of them just disappearing after one or two appearances, some going on to become members of the Legion of Substitute Heroes... and other going in a wildly different direction.
The Justice League of Earth's StorySeveral rejected Legion candidates appeared in various versions of the Legion of Super-Villains, so it wasn't a completely new idea when Geoff Johns introduced a team made entirely of Legion rejects in the pages of Action Comics in 2007. Some members had gone on to become members of the actual Legion, while others barely had one or two appearances under their belt. The innovation here was that their team, the Justice League of Earth, was actually using anti-alien xenophobia to build an Earth-first regime... a story that managed to feel right at home in that era of the Legion.
We are going to do this story almost verbatim, as it's a great threat to throw at the reformed Legion in the later part of their timeline. This means we need to build up each of these rejected Legion candidates, but once that's done we really didn't stay too far from the story more or less as it appears in canon. Also, the team introduced the idea that these characters were actually all rejected for reasons more complex than originally given out, and we're adapting those ideas as well. It's a little bit labor intensive to get this small group in play, but we really do think this is a great addition to the world of the Legion. |