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Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1 · Nov 2019

After all the hype, this was a mite disappointing. There's no actual Legion content: The only real link to the LSH (besides the really cool cover) is the presence of the Science Police in Tommy Tomorrow's time.

The story takes immortal protagonist Rose Forrerst through four eras of the future, which appear to be sequential.

1. A near-future world in which a visibly-aged Supergirl is President
2. The future of Batman Beyond
3. Kamandi's postapocalyptic era after the Great Disaster
4. A gleaming future of Tommy Tomorrow and the Planeteers

Continuity-wise, this is a mess. The Supergirl future is likely 20+ years from now, so about the 2040s. The Batman Beyond future is supposed to be set around 2040. The Great Disaster has never been dated, but the period from the present day to Kamandi's time has been constrained by the fact that Buddy Blank lived through the Disaster and raised his grandson, Kamandi. On the outside, let's say 75 years form now, or in the 2090s. Tommy Tomorrow's Planeteers are set in the 2050s.

The last three periods, at least, belong to three different Earths: Batman Beyond on Earth-12, Kamandi on EarthAD, and Earth-1 for the Planeteers. To complicate things even more, Kamandi and Tommy Tomorrow are supposedly alternate versions of the same person.

So far there's no attempt to explain or reconcile any fo this. Perhaps that will come with the second part. With a thousand years between today and the Legion's time, there's certainly plenty of room for all four of these futures (and more!) on the same Earth—if DC can let go of things like Buddy Blank and its attachment to the mid-21st century.

If it were me, I'd make the Supergirl future 25 years from now, Batman Beyond around the same time (maybe 5-10 years later), the Great Disaster a few centuries later (say, the 2500s), and Tommy Tomorrow perhaps a century before the Legion (i.e. the 2900s). If Buddy Blank must be Kamandi's grandfather, I'd say put him in suspended animation or something.

This all harks back to the one convention that always wreaks havoc with the Legion's continuity: the insistence that the Legion's time be exactly 1,000 years in the future.