Hey Kids! Wanna Be a Super-Hero?
Think you have what it takes? Try out!
It’s easy! It’s fun! It’s fair!
Come to the Super-Hero Clubhouse in Metropolis
(NA, Earth) and give it a shot!
28 April 2958
Dear folks,
This job is working out real well. Mr Brande is a great guy to work for, and the people I work with are real swell.
Would you believe I actually get paid to practice magnoball? Well, that, and testing equipment, and learning some new languages keeps us pretty busy. Mr Brande even arranged for me to sign up for a few history classes at Metro U.
We spent most of today trying on difference costumes and posing for publicity cubes. Mr Brande says he wants to push us into “every conceivable niche market” whatever that means. Anyway, the flat attached is one of the hokier shots, though I think Imra looks cute in the green miniskirt. Garth hardly seems to notice, obsessed as he is with tracking down his brother.
The creds attached are OVER TWICE what we discussed when I left Braal, but still only about eighty percent of my Legion stipend. This job seems almost too good to be true. Tomorrow will tell, though — our first real assignment, involving something or other called a “Quintile Crystal.”
Regards to Pol and all my love,
Rokk
4 February 2023
Some fanboys wonder, “why wouldn’t [the Legionnaires] call the older Supergirl instead of the Supergirl they first meet? They are not held by the same time restraints,” and, “why not just induct her in when she is older, [don’t] they control what time they contact her?” After all, the more experienced Supergirl would surely be more valuable.
Yeah, but time travel can be tricky, and writers dare not employ deus ex machina, even unintentionally. Or, to explain it in continuo, I offer a little fan-fic, Circadia Senius to Brainiac Five (ca. 2960): “Time travel is ek-ek-expensive, so we stickickick to low-energy epicycycliclic nodes at almost one millennium backack and again at approkoximately seventeen years backackack of that. Or Mr Brande shuts down program, so…“