Comments on: Hero History: Mon-El

By: Ivory Bill Woodpecker

Ivory Bill Woodpecker — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:05:22 +0000

Kudos to Darrell Lawrence for the “What happened to Eltro?” speculation. I never thought of that. :)

By: Ivory Bill Woodpecker

Ivory Bill Woodpecker — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:03:48 +0000

AOL Time Warner has more money than Brande & McCauley put together. Why don’t they just be big about it and pay the Siegel estate royalties for Superboy?

“Stay back or I’ll…I’ll eat something.” :D

By: Darrell Lawrence

Darrell Lawrence — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:41:54 +0000

Pre-Crisis Mon-El and the most current Mon-El are most likely one and the same.

The “Valor” that appeared in the Valor series, having come to Earth to seek out his father after the invasion? That would most likely be…. Eltro Gand!

Think about it. The same person cannot exist in the same place at the same time. There was Valor in normal space and Mon-El in the Zone at the same period of time, which isn’t possible.

So the solution is that when the Trapper kicked Eltro out of the “mind” of Mon-El in the 30th century, he kicked him into the 20th century, with his body that was emptied from when Eltro “revived” Mon-El in the Legion’s time.

The “Valor” that died during Zero Hour was really Eltro, and it was the real Mon-El that appeared out of the time stream during that time period.

A couple more thoughts regarding Mon-El:

His punch of the Time Trapper reset the time stream, right? And Superboy-Primes wall punching ALSO reset certain aspects of the time stream, right?

So what if the two “punches” caused time waves that collided with each other?

And my last thought: Mon-El is said to be more powerful than Superman. Superboy-Prime is said to be more powerful than Superman.

So who’s more powerful, Mon-El or Superboy-Prime? I’d love to see a story of JUST those two facing off: An “unhinged from years in the Zone” Mon-El taking on an unhinged because I’m a brat” Superboy-Prime.

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:10:40 +0000

I think there’s a perfectly good explanation for why it took Tom Welling so long to get Lar out of the Zone, at least from “our” perspective. Two words - personal timeline. From Tom’s perspective, Mon-El was in the Zone for the space of one story. Once M’onel was released in the future, having spent 1000 years as a phantom, Tom couldn’t release him in the past without messing up the future, which is actually his personal past. Because of that cute memory wiping thing that Saturn Girl did to Tom when he went back to his present, which is actually the past for both “our” present and the Legion’s present, he wouldn’t remember why he couldn’t free Valor but the knowledge kept him from doing anything to change the future, uh, the past… whatever.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:55:56 +0000

Links with proper attribution are always welcome, Carol. Thanks for the kind words!

By: Carol A. Strickland

Carol A. Strickland — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:47:53 +0000

What a GREAT Mon-El history. FABULOUS! Dare I say it — SUPERB!

Mon’s always been my favorite Legionnaire and usually tops my list of favorite superheroes, period. It’s good to see him treated so thoroughly here (and yep, I caught the missing pinky reference as well but that was merely in reference to that hussy Shadow Lass), and it makes me want to go back and review some stuff that had grown misty over the years.

It also saves me the trouble of compiling my own Mon index. Mind if I link to this from my site?

By: DCM

DCM — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:29:02 +0000

Because he was exposed to lead fatal to Daxamites like himself Mon-El was put in the Phantom Zone to keep him alive until a antidote was found 1000 years later he was released and given a antidote when it statred to wear off he was put back in the Phantom Zone briefly he was released permantly when the antidote was improved.

By: Joe Bergeron

Joe Bergeron — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:57:05 +0000

If someone had had sense enough to make an LSH movie back in the 80s…can anyone imagine a more awesome Mon-El than Kyle MacLachlan? The man was born to play the role!

By: CJHD

CJHD — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:10:05 +0000

Mon-El is a true hero.He was the only 1 in the phantom zone who wasn’t sent there for any crime he sent 1000 years there because of his lead weakness.Jor-El discovered the phantom zone and created the projector pressing a black button sends someone there and pressing a white button releases them.

By: Hari Seldon

Hari Seldon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:45:58 +0000

Thanks for Mon-El/TimeTrapper, etc saga.

I just picked up a recent issue of Superman (#674) and Mon-El appears in it-perhaps an Untold Story?