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Honestly, I'm kinda hoping that Giffen will draw the arc he's doing with Levitz. I mean, yeah, he's basically only doing a Kirby pastiche at this point, but it's damn good Kirby pastiche.
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quote:Originally posted by Jay Kay: Honestly, I'm kinda hoping that Giffen will draw the arc he's doing with Levitz. I mean, yeah, he's basically only doing a Kirby pastiche at this point, but it's damn good Kirby pastiche.
If it's anything like the Annual he did awhile back with Vi and Ayla and the Emerald Empress, I could dig it. That was a neat style.
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quote:Originally posted by Jay Kay: Honestly, I'm kinda hoping that Giffen will draw the arc he's doing with Levitz. I mean, yeah, he's basically only doing a Kirby pastiche at this point, but it's damn good Kirby pastiche.
If it's anything like the Annual he did awhile back with Vi and Ayla and the Emerald Empress, I could dig it. That was a neat style.
Yeah, I forgot he did that--I was more thinking of what he was recently doing in OMAC:
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One thing I really liked about this issue was that you could feel how much Jan disliked pirates without his coming out and saying "Hey, my entire planet was murdered by pirates", which I thought was pretty sweet writing.
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Great seeing Chuck and Luorna again this issue. Lu's reaction to Brainy was right on, and I loved her interaction with Dream Girl. I wonder which females on the team like Nura?
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quote:Originally posted by EmeraldEmperor: Great seeing Chuck and Luorna again this issue. Lu's reaction to Brainy was right on, and I loved her interaction with Dream Girl. I wonder which females on the team like Nura?
Many of the Legion ladies (Imra, Jeckie, Dawny, Nura, all 'alpha females' in their own way) don't really seem to have any friendships with each other, and the only two who do, Tinya and Shady, are treated to the strange double standard that female friends are somehow 'catty' or 'cliquish,' while male friends, like Thom and Dirk, or Brin and Blok, escape such negative stereotypes.
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I have mixed feelings about this issue. I really liked all the charactisation - even Hadru - who having gotten used to be the big fish at the academy is showing how out of his depth he suddenly feels. This is something I've seen with students who have moved to London after being something special in their hometowns and they are shocked by how much they still have to learn. Good to see him start to bite back against Rokk too. Jan was spot on. Wonder if Rokk will take Hadru's admitting he wasn't fully trained up in basics with Lydda?
Not sure if I'm entirely happy with the Comet Queen subplot - surely Brainy could have drafted in Imra or Aven or one of the displaced Titanians? Well, fingers crossed this isn't a subplot that Paul will drag out ad infinitum.
Both Lu and Nura came across as bitches imo. Not that that is a bad thing, just a bit harsher than I expected. Funny how defensive Nura is of Brainy, understandable given that they are both seen as potentially weak Legionnaires as their abilities are cerebral.
Now can we have Ayla, Vi, Shady, Jacques and Tinya get a bit of panel time. I'm over Lu and Chuck already - they can get shipped back to the Academy and do their thing there and make space for the many characters who they are starving of panel space. Sorry, I'm not a huge fan of them despite their handling of the Dominators in 12.
The pirates were fun - about time we saw some Braalians trying to make something of themselves - given that Braal has been shown as a poor downtrodden planet in every 'boot it's a wonder that this hasn't come up before. Potentially their natural abilities could make them invaluable to the UP, so if they aren't being utilised it's no surprise that some of them turn to piracy. Wonder if the woman with the great hair is called Frake?
I really like the grouping of Cham, Jo and Glorith, hope we see a bit more of them together.
The art was far too Dikto-ish for my taste, blocky and awkward looking. It may grow on me but given how spoiled we have been in the last few years with phenomenal artists it's no wonder I'm not really appreciating it.
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Not only is Hadru finding himself in a pond the size of Lake Superior now, but he's finding that knowing how to use a chemistry based power requires some knowledge about the science. And it's one heck of a complicated science!
I don't appreciate Scott Kolins as much as I should, I guess. I'd pay an extra dollar a book for Jimenez or Coipel or Kitson. sigh
Anyway--is it just me, or was Dream Girl implying that Duplicate Damsel has a thing for Brainy? O_O
I assumed that Nura was referring to Brainy being indirectly responsible for the death of Lu's first body by his invention, Computo. If that story line is still history that is.
Well, it would probably explain why she's openly hostile towards Brainy, but that wouldn't explain why Nura would say that Lu's feelings towards Brainy are "conflicted."
Other than their pseudo-flirtation during "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires," Brainy and Lu have been shown to be quite close, such as when he consoled her when she "lost" her powers before her wedding, or the touching scene where he left her his force shield belt.
Don't see the point of Paul foisting Tharok into Brainy's spotlight story if he the UP supposedly "executed" the cyborg genius--he must have survived somehow, and is still the top prospect for the person controlling Comet Queen...
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quote:Originally posted by Harbinger: Now can we have Ayla, Vi, Shady, Jacques and Tinya get a bit of panel time. I'm over Lu and Chuck already - they can get shipped back to the Academy and do their thing there and make space for the many characters who they are starving of panel space.
Agreed. Ditto Lydda, Mysa, Blok, Tenzil, Quislet
quote:Originally posted by Harbinger:
The pirates were fun - about time we saw some Braalians trying to make something of themselves - given that Braal has been shown as a poor downtrodden planet in every 'boot it's a wonder that this hasn't come up before. Potentially their natural abilities could make them invaluable to the UP, so if they aren't being utilised it's no surprise that some of them turn to piracy.
We have seen Braalians a few times - in the Science Police and at Metropolis Spaceport as well as criminals, but by and large there should be more Braalians, Imkians, Talokians etc seen rather than just sentients from random planets
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: ^^I thought that was a nice allusion to the the rest of the girl Legionnaires' hating Nura in her first story.
Choice quote from Lu: "I feel sorry for any Legionnaire who has to work with her."
But that was a LONG time ago and Lu was only reacting to Nura pretending to be a snob in order to further her plan to save them. Nura's certainly more than proved herself since then.
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Read it yesterday, most definitely had the feel of classic Levitz to it. It seems like LSH is finally starting to get back on track but sales are in the fourth-dimensional crapper...
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Fingers, toes and eyes crossed (which does make typing rather difficult) that with Giffen coming back the storylines will attract more readers. If the book gets cancelled it would be an absolute heartbreaking travesty.
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