Legion of Substitute Podcasters

The Dark Circle’s plot deepens, and Sister Laurel is not having it!

Paul “unboxes” the 2026 Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths “Absoluter Edition” (Our term not theirs), gets into This Week in Legion History, and then flashes back to some great Con interviews from 2011, mere days before the launch of the New52. Interviews include Mike Grell, Jack Briglio, Alex Serra, Katie Cook, Scott Chantler, Mike and Blair Kitchen, Ryan Dunlavey and Big Jim Miller What’s YOUR Fantasy 52?

Reep Daggle: Murderer! What has the Dark Circle done? Let’s find out in Part Two of Dark Circle Rising!

The Dark Circle starts making moves on the UP. We visit Orando and Durla, and see the Legion Espionage Squad in action!

The Subs share their thoughts on the announcement of the upcoming new Legionaries from Joshua Williamson and Hayden Sherman. All this, plus Reading Recommendations and This Week in Legion History.

The Subs try to juggle all sorts of variant Legionnaires, as the Legion faces the Time Trapper and everything is crazy!

In this episode, we start with This Week in Legion History, and then we go all the way back to episode 2 for a Supergirl episode.

Crazy things are happening to the Legion’s timeline. The Subs try on all their best purple robes to figure out who’s behind it!

A Sklarian named Kono frees the Composite Man from the Nova Express, stranding passengers and crew. The incident is used to fuel xenophobia against Durla. Enter the Legion, but something is different!

The Subs travel back in time to 2015 when they spoke to Legion artist Greg LaRoque: The Subs are joined by esteemed Legion artist Greg Larocque. Greg shares his early fandom of the Legion, and their inspiration Superboy, and gives insight into his career in comics, including his long runs on Legion and Flash, and the process of bringing comic book characters to life on the page. A big thanks to Erik Matthews for making this interview possible!

The Legion continue their guest appearance in Green Lantern Kyle Rayner’s book. Ganthet gives Kyle Rayner’s ring to Cary Wren, Kyle’s descendant, who becomes the new Green Lantern. Can she help the Legion defeat the faux Green Lantern Corps, and get Kyle back to his own time?

This episode observes the recent passing of Gerry Conway.We look at Conway’s extensive career in comics, our favourite Conway stories and his ability to bring new life to established characters while creating memorable new ones.Gerry Conway 1952-2026

Green Lantern Kyle Rayner gets stuck in the 30th Century, and the Legion is going to help him through it!

Two new members join the team, and two others leave. Meanwhile, the battle for Xanthu continues as the Khunds mean to destroy everything in sight.

Star Boy and the group on Xanthu are in trouble when they’re ambushed by two evil alien races while trying to save the planet from coming under the control of a third!Meanwhile, Karate Kid leaves Leland McCauley’s Workforce after sabotaging his latest experiment.

The Legionnaires take a day off to go to the beach, and the Subs join them!

Star Boy and Monstress visit Xanthu, while Apparition shares the truth about her past.

The DC Universe has many Earths. At times, they’ve been infinite! How many of them have had a Legion? Michael has figured it out, and in this episode, the one after 909, he’s going to tell you all about it.

While Paul is on vacation, we travel back 10 years to coverage of the Death of Superboy. All this, and a new This Week in Legion History!

While Paul is away, the inmates run the asylum as the Subs are joined by Tomorrow’s Heroes Today to discuss Star Boy’s secret origin!

The Subs catch up on the penultimate parts of the DCKO story, with Flash #30 and Superman #35.

Ferro wants to make some changes! All this, plus Stump the Subs, This Week in Legion History, and a listener shares their Legion All-Star Team!

Hoping to get her original lightning powers back, Ayla makes some shocking choices. It’s up to Live Wire to bring her back from the edge.

Karate Kid takes on Major Disaster in Karate Kid #2. Darren, Matt, Scott and Paul dig into all the details as we take the time bubble back to October 2014.

Darkseid’s Legion causes trouble for The Flash and Superman in these DCKO crossover issues!

Join the Subs as they hear a new take on Umbra’s origin. Also: This Week in Legion History and Stump the Subs!

The Subs look at Legends of the Legion 2, featuring Spark. They learn about life on Winath and meet some Lightning Beasts of Korbal. Listen in for all this, plus Legion News, and This Week in Legion History.

The Subs talk about their favourite comics of 2025 and what they’re looking forward to in 2026. All this plus This Week in Legion History.

The Subs discuss Legends of the Legion issue 1, focusing on the origin story of Ultra Boy. The group also share their favorite Ultra Boy artists. All this and This Week in Legion History.

We begin with ‘This Week in Legion History’ and then move on to a rerun episode, one that hasn’t been available on the feed for a while, from episode 323 in December 2014. It’s time for the holidays! Darren and Paul enjoy a viewing of A Christmas Story. You’ll Put Your Eye Out! Merry Christmas, and a Happy Holiday to all!

The Subs get together to record a commentary on The Flash Season 1 Episode 9. Next comes a look at the Supergirl story from DC’s I saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus special.

“The Legion of Superheroes are coming soon.” We learned at New York ComicCon 2025 that Joshua Williamson will write a new Legion book. But what Legion? Mark Waid had previously said a new Legion book is coming, and fans will be happy no matter which version of the Legion is their favorite. When we saw the “Legion Lost” survivors in Superman 29, including a Threeboot Legionnaire, this got us talking.  Who might have survived?  What if they came from a bunch of Legions past?   Adam Crouch, from The Legion Outpost podcast, and I thought, “What fun it might be to play editor and pick our own Legion!” Michael from the Legion of Substitute Podcasters, Derek from Tomorrow’s Heroes Today and Dave from The Legion Outpost join us to represent a cross-section of fan opinions.  This veritable Legion of Legion Podcasters join together for a special crossover recruitment episode.  We recruit a version of all the Legionnaires who appeared in multiple versions and then a few each who are unique to their version.  We share our choices and our opinions. Which Legionnaires would you choose?

Cosmic Boy, Live Wire and Saturn Girl’s mission to investigate Spark’s increased powers creates new problems for the team. All this plus Stump the Subs and This Week in Legion History.  

In what’s not quite the final episode, Derek and Brent, along with special guest Michael, track down where the Volume 5 Legion next appear … and there were more appearances than we first thought!  The Tomorrow’s Heroes Today podcast wraps with a look back across the series (and other appearances) and everyone shares their views on the Threeboot.

The Subs take a look at a DC Animated Universe version of the Legion.

The Subs get into the Legion of Darkseid’s appearances in the DC:KO event. Flash 27 and Superman 32 are the issues in question!

Brent and Derek are joined by Adam the Computer from the Legion Outpost podcast as they cover the final issue of Legion of 3 Worlds.  And they need all the help they can get as the three Legion teams are helped by even more variants.  Will they defeat Primetrapper?  Will Conner and Bart join the fray?  Where are the missing Legionnaires?  Which Legionnaires will survive and which will be changed forever (or at least until the next reboot)? Geoff Johns’ many threads are woven together as it all comes to a crescendo.

The Subs continue their look at the Legion’s Secret Files.

Derek’s turn to unjumble the names of the three Legionnaire teams.  The Retroboot founders and Superman head to the future to battle the Time Trapper.  The Brainiac 5’s head to the fortress of solitude with a hoard of Ranzz’s on their secret mission to bring back a former Legionnaire.  Polar Boy shows why he is the epitome of the Legion and retroboot Wildfire uses his brain while retroboot Dawnstar keeps him on the path.

The Subs take a look at the Legion’s origin as retold in Secret Files issue 1.

Johns and Perez throw it all into this issue.  Three legions, super-villains galore, Kabooms galore and the Flash family.  Brent, Derek and Michael try to keep it all straight but end up getting confused anyhow.

Brainy sees what things would have been like if he’d never been born, and Andromeda finds a cosmic anomaly. The Subs finish their coverage of Legion of Super Heroes 100.

The Subs continue in their discussion of Legion 100. Also Legion Trivia and this week in Legion History.

Using the sphere made up of the crystallized nexus of all earths from all parallel universes, Brainiac 5 , White Witch and Phantom Girl summon the Legions of three worlds to save their world from Superboy Prime and the Legion of Super-Villains.  Michael thankfully joins Derek and Brent to decipher the Perez double page spreads.  Trophy rooms, lantern rings, lightning rods, magic spells and sacrifice – this issue has it all (almost)!

While Paul Rages Against various Machines, we dive back to episode 46. We’ll meet Glorith and figure out if Beast Boy (Not him, the OTHER one) has gone bad!

Derek and Brent dive into the first issue of Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds.  Perez and John’s epic is revisited through a Threeboot lens.  Along with Superboy Prime they explore the 31st century Superman Museum and all enjoy the Easter eggs left, right and centre.

The Subs conclude Inferno’s miniseries and talk about Legion news of the past couple of weeks. All this, plus a round of This Week in Legion History.

It’s Canucksgiving, so we’re looking back at an episode from 15 years ago this week. Episode 105:   The Subs check out Legion of Super Heroes 303, and celebrate the return of the beautiful, but deadly Emerald Eye of Ekron, as well as its owner, the Emerald Empress. All this, and Supergirl shows us why Crisis 7 was such a big deal. As Sun Boy would say, “Mmrbl grrf grrmble!”

The Subs continue their coverage of issue 100, and discuss the Omega Act and the upcoming DC KO series. All this plus This Week in Legion History.

We look at what happened after Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 5, Issue 50.  Together with Michael from the LoSP we take a wander through Starman in the JSA, The Lightning Saga, Karate Kid and Una in Countdown to Final Crisis, Superman and the Legion of Super-heroes (Action Comics 858-863) Batman and the Legion of Super-heroes (Action Comics 864) plus the Legion appearance in DC Universe 0.   And it’s all leading to Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds … !