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quote:Originally posted by Candlelight: I noticed. I guess I'll call it 'The Culling', though.
I had zero interest in Blackest Night and whatever the last Titans thing was where they were all wasting one another right and left.
When I heard about this, my eyes glazed over all over again. Bleah.
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I would assume he's still recovering and not on active duty yet. I did translate the Interlac but its in one of the legion facebook's and i cant access it at work so i'll post it later but it appears to be names...not heroic names though (at least my opinion) someone said one of the names was Japanese in origin..i think the was the female: Otaki i think that's what the interlac translted as.
The male was something else but not standard english/american way of how a name usually is.
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quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: Anyone with sharp eyes able to translate the Interlac words that might be the names of the two 'possible recruits' D-Damsel mentions? Looks like they're on the cover of August's issue, too.
Looks like Otaki for the woman and Mwinadji for the man. That's an odd name, but in a group with people named Reep Daggle and Luornu Duorgu and Tinya Wazzoo of Bgtzl, I guess it's not *that* odd...
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"Otaki" is a city in New Zealand.
"Otaku" is apparently someone obsessed with anime.
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20 pages became the standard for DC with the 'holding the line at $2.99' promotion. It was a way to keep their books at the more wallet-friendly $2.99 price (this is assuming one would consider $3.99 UNfriendly for a comic, which I do for the most part) while also saving money by cutting costs (page count).
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20 pages in LSH #9. And the first page showed one panel, 4 characters standing around, 11 words that revealed nothing new or interesting.
If we have only 20 pages, make them count, please.
Compared to other fine comics I'm reading now, this one is not up to speed yet.
Still...Long Live the Legion.
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From: Groga | Registered: Aug 2003
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Random observations;
On pages 14 and 15, we get to see the message board symbols for Harmonia Li (Chinese character for Harmony), and then Glorith (a tree?), Dragonwing (a bat wing), Chemical Kid (a beaker) and Comet Queen (a capital Interlac letter-looking thing). Squint at Glorith's tree-symbol and it could also look like a mushroom-cloud...
On p. 6, Gravity Lad also has a SP symbol, and I don't recall the SP having a mission monitor board style symbol before.
Gravity Lad's joined the SP? Neat. I knew he'd followed Power Boy (who had been offered an SP job) to Takron-Galtos, but I didn't know that he'd also signed up.
I'm probably never going to love Harmonia Li, but her costume is pretty cool.
The Dominators have long had an obsession with tinkering with the meta-gene. It's interesting to see them fielding super-powered aliens like Dys, whose power turned out to be very useful against Brainy, the one Legionnaire who is most dependent on gear to function.
I like that their teleportation tech is so clearly limited as well, requiring them to black out an entire continent of their homeworld to open a portal to earth from their homeworld.
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I love the idea of teleportation and characters who can teleport but it CAN make things a little TOO easy sometimes, so I also am onboard with the downside to the Dominators' teleport tech!
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH's back: I love the idea of teleportation and characters who can teleport but it CAN make things a little TOO easy sometimes, so I also am onboard with the downside to the Dominators' teleport tech!
Indeed. When I was younger, I questioned why Nightcrawler had what, to me, seemed like ridiculously limited teleportation powers (a half mile or a couple of miles, tops, disorients passengers, etc.), but, from a narrative standpoint, his powers are just about perfect. He gets to BAMF all over combat and do awesome, awesome stuff like in the beginning of the second X-Men movie, and not mess with the tension of escape scenes and the like.
I totally didn't appreciate how well-designed he was, compared to longer-range teleporters who end up suffering the Star Trek problem of having to have their powers inexplicably not work whenever they would mess with the dramatic needs of the moment, or, worse, get conveniently forgotten if the writer doesn't want to use them...
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I liked that there was just about enough action this issue. The last one gave us too little story. I wonder if the Fatal Five and Dominator storylines are related?
Curious that Star Boy didn't get an "info box" when non-Legionnaire Gravity Kid did...
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I really enjoyed this issue and hopefully the book will continue along at a better pace and more action scenes. I also wondered about Validus being back? This leads into another question concerning Irma & Garth- if the legion is now supposedly only 5 years into their careers...how do we explain a legionaire couple with two 5 year olds??
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quote:Originally posted by jdpinball: I really enjoyed this issue and hopefully the book will continue along at a better pace and more action scenes. I also wondered about Validus being back? This leads into another question concerning Irma & Garth- if the legion is now supposedly only 5 years into their careers...how do we explain a legionaire couple with two 5 year olds??
I get the impression that Paul Levitz is completely ignoring the 5 years in dictat, just like he ignored a lot of Geoff Johns set up work.
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yeah except that in the recent Legion origin mini series it states the Legion has been active for 5 years and they keep referring to the Legion Lost crew as teens"
Hopefully he does ignore that editorial dictate...because it just doesn't work but then agin it's a comic book so...
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