Today in Comics History, March 6, 2995, The Alamo: And then Matter-Eater Lad ate General Santa Anna

Legionnaires was a weird comic, y'all.


from Legionnaires #28 (DC, August 1995),co-plot and script by Tom Peyer, co-plot and colors by Tom McCraw, pencils by Joyce Chin, inks by W. C. Carani, letters by Pat Brosseau

Today in Comics History, May 31, 2994: Brainiac 5 cracks the glass on his iPad 3000

from Legionnaires (1993 series) #0 (DC, October 1994); co-plot by Mark Waid; co-plot, script by, and colors by Tom McCraw, pencils by Jeff Moy; letters by Pat Brosseau

Comics at Housing Works: The Flash Sale will save very one of us!

Attention all my comics-buying fans: Housing Works Bookstore and Café will be closed Friday 4/26-Monday 4/29 for renovations, but on Wednesday 4/24 and Thursday 4/25, don't miss the Flash Sale: 30% off the whole store! And yes, that includes comic books! Even ones that aren't about the Flash!



I've added a bunch of new backissues for you to the Comics Cart, including a big run of '90s Superman ($1 each!) and every issue of post-Zero Hour Legion and Legionnaires, bundled year by year! Collect 'em all and they'll call you Brainy!

Where's Sugar and Spike?

HEY, DOLL-BOY! It's time once again to play America's favorite game, "Where's Sugar and Spike?" Polish up your spectacles and get your thinking caps on for another exciting adventure trying to find Sugar and Spike in time and space! And now, while you're getting ready, here's the theme song from "Where's Sugar and Spike?":

One sunny day in the neighborhood
Bernie the Brain did something good
He invented a machine to travel thru time
A piece of technology sublime!

But when bad Little Arthur came inside
The babies, they ran for a place to hide
They ducked inside the time machine
Now all through the years they careen!


Those babies are zippin' thru time and space
They might be flying with Enemy Ace
Or catchin' a cab into outer space
Where's Sugar and Spike?

Are they fightin' crime with Jean-Paul Valley
Or stopping a robbery in Crime Alley?
Hangin' out with Death at the Big Finale?
Where's Sugar and Spike?

You'll never know where those babies will stop
Are they with Liza Warner, Lady Cop?
Or maybe in the pages of Plop!
Where's Sugar and Spike?

Maybe they're riding a big T-rex
Alongside Bat Lash and Jonah Hex
Or maybe even Luthor (Lex!)
Where's Sugar and Spike?

Where's Sugar and Spike?
Where's Sugar and Spike?
Where's Sugar and Spike?
(In color!)

(Tonight's episode of "Where's Sugar and Spike?" is blogged before live studio audience.)

Oh my goodness, where have those babies gotten to now in Bernie the Brain's Time Machine? Why, they're on Earth-247 in the far future: the time of The Legion of Super-Heroes, to be precise! Now, in a superfuturistic world where everything is based on things that came from the twentieth and twenty-first century, can you find that mischievous pair? In other words

Where's Sugar and Spike?

Where are Sugar and Spike? They're somewhere there in among the Legionnaires, the Legion wanna-be's, various Science Police Guys, and caraciatures of K. C. Carlson and other members of the LSH creative staff that I can't identify. (Help me, Michael, you're my only hope!)

Anyway, start timing yourself...the latest game of "Where's Sugar and Spike?" begins...now!



Did you find 'em? Good for you, Doll-Boy!

Now, rate yourself on this scale:

• Under 10 seconds: You'd give Bernie the Brain a run for his grey matter!
  
• Up to 10 minutes: You are easily distracted by shiny objects, futuristic uniforms, and the snake version of Jeckie.
  
• Up to 1 hour: Yeah, I spent all that time looking for Double Header too, but you've got to stay on target!
• 1,000 years in the future or over: Contact Dawnstar for help and keep practicing.

Well, that's all the time we have tonight for "Where's Sugar and Spike?" Join us next time when Sugar and Spike wind up in the middle of the "DC One Million" crossover, and special guest-writer Grant Morrison brings us "The Sweetness That Sliced through Fractals Polygonically" and "Doll-Humanoid in the 853rd Century" in a story he could only call "The Svkjwxp that Shouted Blrgsxlp at the Heart of the Dwdhnxg!"

Separated at Birth: We're Knights of the Round Table

L: All Star Comics #3, Winter 1940-1941, art by Everett Hibbard
R: Legionnaires #54, November 1997, art by Jeffrey Moy, W. C. Carani, and Patrick Martin
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