Category Archives: Earth-2

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris
Showcase of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
The Legion of Justice, the greatest heroes of the 23rd century and heirs to the legacy of the JSA, is a new super-team for a new future! But while the Legionnaires do their best to protect and serve, are they serving the wrong side? Can the Utopian States of America be in reality a totalitarian state whose citizens — and Legionnaires — are kept under tight control and surveillance at all times? And is escape even possible? Meanwhile, a captive Mekanique watches as Vandal Savage and the android Futura make plans, and she plans an escape of her own.

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Epilogue: Meet the Legion of Justice

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list From the personal files of General Urbane, Supreme Arbiter of Federal Justice and Supreme Commander of the Legion of Justice: The Legion of Justice, current membership only: Heroic name: Canary. Real name: Regina (Gina) Lance. Appearance: Canary is an attractive, athletic young . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 7: The End of the Beginning

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list First Lieutenant Michael Gold was on duty at the Citadel of Justice, watching the video security monitors. It was one of the more dangerous jobs in the Utopian States of America. His duty was to report anything unusual directly to General Urbane. . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 6: Conspiracy in the Legion

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list After the Tuesday morning assignments were handed out, Gina Lance, Theresa Knight, and Rexford Tyler — alias Canary, Star Lass, and Timepiece — gathered in Rex’s laboratory. The girls were wearing backpacks, but Gina was skeptical about the whole adventure. “Terry, tell . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 5: The Discovery of Knight Base

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list Even a machine intelligence, when deprived of input by total sensory deprivation, might pass the time by replaying memories, and the human mind of Gloria Giles Farley — her human engrams having been transferred from her brain into a positronic brain — . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 4: Secrets Upon Secrets

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list Though she was trapped inside a dense column of super-cooled ice harder than diamond, Star Lass wasn’t worried. Even her many-times-great-grandpa Ted’s prototype gravity rod could shoot a heat beam, and her own cosmic rod, surgically grafted into her nervous system, was . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 3: The Battle of Yorktown

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list Action Team B: Kid Terrific, Star Lass, Golden Boy, Hourboy, Hawk Lad, WildCat: Over seven-thousand cities spread across the three continents and thousands of islands of the Utopian States of America sponsored annual Heritage Day celebrations — but not all on the . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 2: Mission Accomplished

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list “Greenfire! Respond!” Canary tried frantically to raise her teammate over the radio. “Relax, leader lady,” his voice came through the radio, and he sounded amused. “C’mon, you know electricity can’t hurt me. Want me to take out those blasters?” “No, damn it, . . .

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Showcase: The Legion of Justice, Chapter 1: Just Another Mission

by Dan Swanson, based on a concept by Tynnechris Return to chapter list Continued from Showcase: The Second Death of Mekanique The year 2285 in the twenty-third century: “Kid Terrific: monitor duty. Hourboy, Hawk Lad, WildCat: Ready Team. Star Lass: Officer of the Day. Golden Boy and Timepiece, you have the day off. You seven . . .

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Showcase: The Second Death of Mekanique

by Dan Swanson
Showcase of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
Following Vandal Savage’s defeat by the Suicide Squad, Mekanique reengineers her own timeline, ensuring that she continues to exist in her present form even as the future timeline of Metropolis where she was created is erased from existence! And as she counts on her former master, the future Vandal Savage from that timeline, to be erased along with it, she soon finds that Savage has a few twists and turns of his own!

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Showcase: The Second Death of Mekanique, Chapter 3: The Best Laid Plans

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list Mekanique watched as the time-wave erased the Joh Fredersen incarnation of Vandal Savage from existence in the year 2227. She focused on Savage’s face as all the colors on the screen started to fade. He was lethargic, and she was starting to think he would never realize his . . .

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Showcase: The Second Death of Mekanique, Chapter 2: Vandal Savage Takes a Tumble

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list As he fell into the bottomless pit of the ancient, malevolent, alien god Cthulhu, with both arms wrapped around his wounded stomach to keep himself together, Joh Fredersen — the identity by which the now-white-haired, clean-shaven Vandal Savage was known in the twenty-third century, where he ruled the . . .

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Showcase: The Second Death of Mekanique, Chapter 1: Futura No More

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list Continued from The Suicide Squad: Path of the Immortal Mekanique appeared in the control room of her fortress in Limbo, smugly satisfied with what she had already achieved. She had collected the empty mechanical body of Robotman and the amber-encased human body of Gloria Giles Farley, battered and . . .

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The Spectre: The Partner

by Dave Barnowski
The Spectre: The Five Earths Project
As Jim Corrigan gains a new partner in the GCPD, his partnership with the Spectre also changes. Corrigan must reassert his conscience to rein in the Spectre’s thirst for vengeance, which comes to a head during a homicide case involving a female meta-human with super-speed.

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The Spectre: The Partner, Chapter 3: Cry for Vengeance

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list April Catrella was wondering why they weren’t going for an arrest warrant. When she asked Jim Corrigan, he told her he’d seen too many judges tell him that he didn’t have enough evidence for a warrant. He wanted proof of Kazinski having super-speed. Corrigan had called for backup . . .

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