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Is anyone else worried what the characterization of Shadow Lass is gonna be like in the new series, If they move back to the Pre-Umbra days she's just gonna be a useless character crying over Mon-el all the time. Her character really stood out in the last 2 incarnations of the Legion as a very competent & independent person with some edge, I'm gonna miss that.
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I'm not worried, since Mon-el isn't currently dying of lead poisoning, but I can understand your apprehension. At the start of his second run, Levitz' Shady was fabulous & heroic.(Great Darkness Saga & right after) In the middle of his second run, she became a bit too catty for me.(First half of Baxter series) Near the end, I wouldn't say she was wimpy, but the search for a cure became her only reason for being, and while that's certainly noble and heroic, perhaps it got annoying because it seemed to drag on for too long. I'm hoping that in the current run, she and Night Girl are portrayed as a fierce and fearless GIRL-POWERful team!!
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When she started getting over the top catty is when I stopped enjoying her. The same could be said for Tinya. Hopefully we won't return to that level of cattiness.
I guess that's why i always preferred Nura and jeckie.
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I just hope we get to see her in between all the focus on the founders and Green Lanterns and such!
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i didnt enjoy catty tinya and shadow lass. i had that in school didnt need to pay 75 cents for it.
yeah, shady is one of my favorite characters but she got overwhelmed by Mon-El back then. even though she was her planet's champion. hopefully if tehy renew the romance they will show how amazing and cool she is and is the equal of the uber Mon-El.
which was kinda starting to happen in the end of 5YL, when she had a mohawk.
didn't like insecure bitchy umbra from the archie series tho. did like sullen tortured umbra from legion lost. (after she was blighted)
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Anyway, Paul Levitz gave an interview on io9.com where he strongly hinted that the Shady/Mon-El relationship might be over*. So we might be seeing a more independent Shady in the new book.
* If indeed, it took place in this reality after all.
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As I said on FB, that watercolor of Tasmia is highly reminiscent of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of night, sex, change & death!!
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Wait... the Hindus have a goddess of sex changes?
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The Lo3W presentation of Shadow Lass as being able to drain the yellow solar energy out of a Kryptonian (or Daxamite) really shifts the perception that Shady was in a mix-matched power dynamic with Mon.
She becomes, quite literally, able to shut him off like a light, which is kind of cool.
If her light negating / absorbing fields were shown as able to negate or dampen other types of radiant energy, such as blaster fire (and she should already be able to create an area in which laser weapons won't work...), it might serve to make her a bit more defensively impressive in a universe full of bad-guys who carry energy weapons, instead of pistols.
As for the really important part, her personality, I like that she sometimes came off a bit arrogant. She's *the* planetary champion of Talokk VIII, the equivalent of the entire Justice League, all rolled into a single strong-willed woman, for a *world.* Earth has thousands of super-people flitting about, and some of them, like Superman, have larger than life legacies, but the 'legacy' on Talokk VIII is that of her family, not some alien hero.
I could see her rolling her eyes at the raw ego and earth-centrism on display when fellow Legionnaires, often from diverse worlds with no connection to Superboy at all (and, increasingly being portrayed as pre-existing the 20th century!), get a bit fan-boy-ish about Kal-El.
Have they no pride in their own worlds? What about their own world's heroes? Just because the headquarters were paid for by an Earther (who turned out to be a Durlan anyway...), does that make it right to shun one's own culture and embrace the heroes of earth instead?
[Obviously, out of story, we know that the reason why earth-born or earth-raised heroes are the famous ones with legacies, is because that's where the comic books were written, and not about Vrgxlplat, the universe-saving Cnidarian from Slugor Six, but just because we haven't read any stories about a 23rd century Titanian or 18th century Durlan saving the universe and leaving behind a legacy of heroism that inspired generations of Titanians and Durlans to come, doesn't mean that those worlds didn't have heroes, who would mean every bit as much to them as Superman would mean to Earthlings.]
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quote:Originally posted by lil'rhino: As I said on FB, that watercolor of Tasmia is highly reminiscent of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of night, sex, change & death!!
If all the Hindu Goddesses look like that, I might convert.
quote:Originally posted by Owl Lad: This rendition also reminds me of Storm from the X-Men.
Odd that this gorgeous pic...
quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
...and the costume she's wearing also reminded me of Storm all of a sudden when it hadn't occurred to me before. It's obviously reminiscent of the look Tasmia bore during the Superboy/LSH era. Was Dave Cockrum, who created Storm, also the one who first drew Tasmia in that era's costume? The most obvious similarity between their looks was the tiara thingie holding their respective hair up.
Even more eerie is this post:
quote:Originally posted by Power Boy: hopefully if tehy renew the romance they will show how amazing and cool she is and is the equal of the uber Mon-El...which was kinda starting to happen in the end of 5YL, when she had a mohawk.
Tasmia sported a mohawk at some point during 5YL? Who else do we know who had one (and apparently does again) for a long time?
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