Topic: The Complete Continuity Match-Up Checklist: from Baxter to Levitz Relaunch (revised)
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quote:Originally posted by Vee: Or the simple answer which no one has mentioned... as a Legionnaire she is used to acting in emergencies. Most Titanians are not even though they may have powers which she does not.
Someone upthread may have mentioned the possibility that she was somehow 'gestalting' the power of the other Titanians, pooling all of that telepathic power to do things that no telepath could do (although I'm pretty sure they didn't use the word gestalt).
There's also the possibility that Titanians, already long-ago associated with mental changes as a result of the rings of Saturn, might have additional psychic powers on Titan, which they don't have off-world.
But none of that was mentioned, and for it to be assumed without any text would be like assuming that Braalians also can transform into a giant metal form, but only on Braal, so we've never seen Rokk do it before.
Sure, *we* can come up with explanations for how she appeared to do something not in her traditional power-set, but should *we* be the ones doing this?
I just pay for the comic, I shouldn't have to fill in the missing text, any more than I should be expected to color in an uncolored page.
[Although that sort of thing could be funky, and I'd love to see what Loser Lad would do with an uncolored version of a Legion book!]
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Eryk Davis Ester
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This may be a fairly minor, easily dealt with thing, but I noticed it when I was reading the issue:
Saturn Girl says something in this issue about never having been religious, but she and Garth baptized Graym on Titan in v3 #16.
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Tromium mentioned in her review that Dr. Aven seems to have replace Professor Vndaar as Imra's Titanian mentor, although I suppose she could have had more than one mentor.
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Imra's always been a space hussy, she probably went through mentors the way we go through chewing gum!
Or, being perhaps the strongest telepath of her generation, she might have had teachers and trainers and mentors politicking behind closed doors for the opportunity to work with her!
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: This may be a fairly minor, easily dealt with thing, but I noticed it when I was reading the issue:
Saturn Girl says something in this issue about never having been religious, but she and Garth baptized Graym on Titan in v3 #16.
Okay, it's in.
This one probably falls into the category of examples where Paul can't remember every little thing he wrote 25 years ago.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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It could be that:
a) She participates in religious customs, without considering herself particularly religious.
b) It was Garth's idea to baptize the kid
c) The "baptism" isn't really a religious ceremony, but some sort of similar, secular Titanian custom
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Over on the DC boards there's a thread about Saturn Girl in the preview for Adventure #12 claiming to be an orphan, *and* someone saying that a fan contacted Levitz on Facebook and it's just a mistake. This is now added.
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See here.
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I wonder if Garridian Ranzz was also just another mistake, not an intentional use of 5YL material. This one's probably okay, though, since I don't see why she would want to call him Validus.
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I'd say that, as with Aven, it is an intentional incorporation of later material. Paul probably realized how silly it was to call the baby "Validus" (especially with another monster Validus running around), and decided to go with the previously established name.
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Would someone please explain the whole Garridian mess for me? I thought that Darkseid basically stole Garridian out of Saturn Girl's womb before he was even born, and Saturn Girl didn't even realize she had a second child. The idea of Garridian didn't occurr until the 5YG. So this is a MAJOR difference from the original to what is happening now.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: It could be that:
a) She participates in religious customs, without considering herself particularly religious.
b) It was Garth's idea to baptize the kid
c) The "baptism" isn't really a religious ceremony, but some sort of similar, secular Titanian custom
I hashed this one out on another board and found very few people were concerned about this discrepancy. There's been more talk about Saturn Girl's TK, in fact, and that's something I didn't notice at all. But FWIW, after reviewing the Baptism issue:
* the ceremony took place on Titan, as you mentioned. So if it were Garth's idea, seems to reason the ceremony would have happened on Winath. * the Interlac displayed at the church was John 3:16, plus there were crosses galore, so it wasn't a generic, unspecified custom.
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quote:Originally posted by BouncingBear: Would someone please explain the whole Garridian mess for me? I thought that Darkseid basically stole Garridian out of Saturn Girl's womb before he was even born, and Saturn Girl didn't even realize she had a second child. The idea of Garridian didn't occurr until the 5YG. So this is a MAJOR difference from the original to what is happening now.
Yes, Darkseid stole the child without Imra's knowledge. However, she got the child back in one of the v3 annuals. Bizarrely, she and Garth still referred to the kid as "Validus" through the end of Levitz's run. The name "Garridan" is from 5YL.
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quote:Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: It could be that:
a) She participates in religious customs, without considering herself particularly religious.
b) It was Garth's idea to baptize the kid
c) The "baptism" isn't really a religious ceremony, but some sort of similar, secular Titanian custom
I hashed this one out on another board and found very few people were concerned about this discrepancy. There's been more talk about Saturn Girl's TK, in fact, and that's something I didn't notice at all. But FWIW, after reviewing the Baptism issue:
* the ceremony took place on Titan, as you mentioned. So if it were Garth's idea, seems to reason the ceremony would have happened on Winath. * the Interlac displayed at the church was John 3:16, plus there were crosses galore, so it wasn't a generic, unspecified custom.
Hmm... it's been ages since I've read that issue. I didn't remember it being so Christian-specific.
Maybe we can chalk it up to her now suddenly being an orphan?
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As long as 'new Imra' isn't parentless because of her high midichlorian count and some prophecy about bringing balance to the universe, I'm satisfied.
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