So, who do you think he is, really?
Posted by Dain on :
The young son of Lyle and Ora of the Knights of the Galaxy?
[ March 17, 2007, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Dain ]
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Along with Guy Who Could Be Star Boy in an Orange Costume: The Chorus Lads.
Chorus, as in "Hooray for Superboy, our new member!"
Posted by MLLASH on :
Obviously, in the original-- and therefore REAL-- version of the LSH, Coluans are honkys!
This is one of the earliest examples of a LSH retcon.
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
I don't know who he is, but I hear he's formed a support group with The Guy Who First Played Anakin In Return Of The Jedi.
Posted by lil'rhino on :
Protractor Lad
Posted by Superboy-Supergirl on :
so i guess from that issue on the Time Trapper aka Cos was mucking up the time stream to prevent zero hour...though we should be grateful...saturn girl became a blonde, lightling boy became a lad, and cos stopped pulling down girls dresses with his eyes and started using his hands.
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
I just realized this thread lacks the panel in discussion -
(Thanks to Pov! )
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Oh, so that's how he was originally colored!
Looks like Bob Crane of "Hogan's Heroes."
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
an all-white super-hero club doesn't seem "futuristic" anymore.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
That was B5 at a time when he was experimenting with his amazing Skin Pigment Deceptotron. However, the effect could only be maintained for an hour and was considered useless for espionage purposes.
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
That was the team's original genius, Poindexter Boy. Unfortunately all historical record of him was expunged when he spoke out against Rokk shortly after Superboy joined.
He was sent to the UP Gulag and Brainiac 5 was recruited quickly to replace him. In soviet times they'd airbrush people out of photos, in modern times they use photoshop. In the Legion's time the prefered method is time travel.
In the reprint we see Brainiac because he actually time travelled, abducted Poindexter for transport to the gulag and posed for this photo to show Rokk that the mission was complete.
Posted by lowercase mllash on :
Maybe he's ---THE REST!
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
That was actually a triplicated Triplicate Girl, when she was still Triplicate Boy. It's a little-known secret that she took ProFem shortly after Superboy first joined so that she could pursue her crush on him!
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
The original preboot Doro!
Posted by Power Boy on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Maybe he's ---THE REST!
He totally is.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
No way! The rest would never stand to applaud!
Dude in foreground with the back of his head towards us may be the Rest, however!
Posted by Leap Year Lord on :
Posted by Power Boy on :
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: No way! The rest would never stand to applaud!
Dude in foreground with the back of his head towards us may be the Rest, however!
Ede !!! Don't slap me! The rest is an emotional topic I know but ... Jeez!
Posted by cleome46 on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: an all-white super-hero club doesn't seem "futuristic" anymore.
One thing that rubbed me the wrong way during the whole Earth Man arc: His allies, the "earth firsters," were way more racially diverse than the Legion itself is.
What kind of message was that? Somebody really didn't think it through like they should have...
Posted by Set on :
quote:Originally posted by cleome46: One thing that rubbed me the wrong way during the whole Earth Man arc: His allies, the "earth firsters," were way more racially diverse than the Legion itself is.
That was a weird scene. Around that table, it seemed like the artist had very specifically included exactly one person of each ethnicity, which felt very 'meta.'
It was like they were trying to pull away from the all-white Justice League of Earth (not that it was easy to tell that Golden Boy or Radiation Roy were white...) and the nazi-evoking uniforms of Earth-Man and the flunkie troopers, and say, 'see, it's not just white humans that are crazy racists, it's *all* humans!'
Perhaps it was part of the attempt at making Earth-Man seem more sympathetic, by putting out there that all the other 'races' were racist, so he wasn't that bad... If so, it seems to have failed.
I also found the background images in the prison escape from Takron-Galtos odd, because many of the prisoners were aliens, and yet it seemed that every single science police officer in the background was human.
I doubt the writer/author meant to give the impression that a racial profiling humans-only police force is rounding up tentacly folk without due cause for 'driving while green' or whatever, and packing Takron-Galtos with anyone who isn't square-jawed and clean-skinned, but that's certainly one interpretation of that artistic choice.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Maybe they were trying to show that in the 31st century, racism transcends the obvious physical differences and focuses more on where you were born? There was an issue or two where the earth-firsters attacked Titanians, who could definitely pass for Earth natives.
I also remember Earth-Man calling Wildfire and Dawnstar Earth-born Legionnaires who are now traitors, despite neither looking like your typical Earth native.
I do agree with you that the Legion could stand to be more diverse - not just in terms of representing the various modern-day ethnic groups but also in terms of non-humanoid aliens.
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What kind of message was that? Somebody really didn't think it through like they should have...