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Anyone wonder why Ras Al Ghul isn't involved in more wholesale genocide in this story? Why concentration camps if your goal is to reduce world population?
quote:Originally posted by doublechinner: It just occurs to me looking at these panels that one of the really cool things about the Adult LSH and LSV is that the heroes and villains actually LOOKED like adults -- receding hair-lines, love handles, wrinkles.
That's what I love about this story - now that I'm older. You figure the legionnaires are in their 30s, since we see some of them with children, babies to about 10 years... they certainly didn't age well. The stress of superheroing, I guess... Was this the impression of young writer Jim Shooter? Artist Curt Swan would have been 47 himself at this point - maybe he was drawing himself.
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004: I'm more interested in the two new additions to the trio...
One of them looks like Beauty Blaze, who some say was rebooted as Inferno.
The other one could be a descendent of Myx (I'm not even trying to spell that name) who, IIRC, wore an iron mask. He may have called himself Ulthor, which was actually "Luthor". (There's a word to describe when you rearrange the letters of a word and then try to figure out the real word, but I can't think of it right now.)
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From: Newburgh, NY | Registered: May 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Yellow Kid: Anyway - this story in S/B with the LSV might keep me onboard for a while if the rest are as much fun as this. At least it means I'll pay attention to it for a while where I was flat out ignoring it previously.
I know a lot of people aren't thrilled with S/B, and I admit to only having come on board with Supergirl. The stories might only be average, too, but I've found that they're fun. Loeb clearly loves some of the old elements of the DCU and really seems to want to show how much he loves them. I'd say his goals have less to do with fitting perfectly into continuity and more to do with making a fun read. As I see it, that's not all that different from the Silver Age.
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From: Newburgh, NY | Registered: May 2004
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Cool, another new word. First hebitudenous and now reversionary. Fun and educational at the same time. Legion discussions really do space-rawk.
From: Smallville Sector : Greater Metropolis | Registered: Jun 2004
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Ironically, I bought Legion Archive #6 (which contains Adventure #355) this week. I read Superman/Batman Friday night, and I'm in the middle of the adult Legion story right now. I buy one, maybe two, Legion archives a year, and I had never read the Adult Legion story previously. Just happened that I got it the same week this story comes out.
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From: Palm Bay FL | Registered: Aug 2003
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Oh holy crap, that's cool. I don't read Supe/Bats, but I jumped in for this arc because of Pacheco, and the LSV. And it's been a wholly entertaining story.
I'll still likely bail when it's done though.
J
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From: Everywhere, nowhere... | Registered: Dec 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Reboot: [QUOTE]Reversionary crap. Which requires it to have previously existed, since there must be a state to revert TO.
Read the post before you trash it for something it didn't say.
And I'm sick of DC reverting to stuff they'd moved beyond.
My mistake, Reboot. Of course, I still disagree because I find the older stuff to be far more fun and interesting than the "dark, edgy" stuff that's been around ever since.
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