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i think i'll start on the Levitz and Giffen interviews, first !!!

i wanna read what Paul say's about the RE-BOOT, now that you have mentioned it LASH !!!

Matthew.

Levitz's comments surprised me, too. Full marks for honesty, though.

I had hoped that the whole "Put the members names in a hat" story had been an Internet rumor. But no.

Y'know what?

JIMMY JANES got a raw deal.

I'm looking at several of his finished-pencil covers (pre-inks) and they totally rock.

They should have published his entire LSH run uninked, 'cause the finished product looked weaker.

His stuff actually looks GREAT in black and white....

Just got mine....

What I find interesting (artwise)is how many pencillers prefered/liked/admired Jack Abel's inks...among them, Nasser and Sherman (who seemed to prefer them!).

I really love the book. Glen, if you're out there, you did I great job

Mike

I've been sayin!!!! On the DCMB whenever I mention this, people will actually put blank posts around mine as if to move away! I'm NOT crazy, I'm NOT crazy...I'm not the ONLY crazy, I'm not the ONLY crazy!

Well I was severely disappointed in the Giffen interviews. I expected he would be this straight-jacketed ritalyn deprived dribbling shaker with a palsy in his drawing hand but he is a very empathic character. Wait, gotta look that up. Yeah! Empathic!

Really, this is some of the best money I've spent in a long time. The drawings are a treat, as well as the insights and personalities.

Plastino is my kinda hard case. Held up for his own, and his illustrations were beautiful. I could have gone for a few more pictures of those.

Mindy Newell's description of how Giffen & Levitz got excited about ideas-- Giffen being akin to an acid-tripper and Levitz being akin to a pothead-- was very funny I thought, as were her "this is NOT an endorsement of drugs! Drugs don't help you write" comments.

She sounds like a funny lady.

I've been glued to my copy of the Companion!

Hmmmm, there's a boorish joke or two in that...

{ I've been glued to my copy of the Companion! }

Somewhere in there is a racy joke involving an episode of "Star Trek" (the original series), featuring Zefrem Cochrane ...

NOTHING comes between me & my Companion!

I was reading my Legion Companion on the subway yesterday and 4 strangers came up and asked me about it!
Unfortunately, none of them were do-able.

lil'rhino

Haven't got my copy yet, but wow, that's surprising how Sherman and Nasser felt about Abel. He certainly turned in a finished product that was a lot less faithful to their pencils than Rubinstein or McLeod's inks were. No offense to Abel (who I've read was a very nice fellow) but I always felt his inks were just a slight step up from Vince Colletta.

Blast!

Did any of them have inner beauty?

Who knows. I didn't get to look inside them. We were on a crowded subway car after all!

lil'rhino

I found Mike Nasser's comment about being contacted a couple years ago to provide the art for a Legion series written by Busiek very interesting. I wonder if this was pre- or post- Lost?

The only thing I know of a Busiek penned Legion is that Kurt once said that he was either approached or was talking to someone about the Legion and ultimately he decided he didn't want to write about this Legion because it's no longer the Legion he knew -- it's the Levitz Legion that he'd be interested in (or something like that).

Does every discussion or news thread have to have innuendo about sexual acts? *sigh*

I simply say this and pass on.

We ARE on the same board, aren't we, Grey?

In all seriousness, I HAVE to get this. Soon.

I can't find it anywhere! Suggestions?

You can order right from TwoMorrows here .

I just got mine in my subscription delivery today! It looks great-- can't wait to get home and delve into it.

Finally got mine in the mail yesterday. Hopefully this weekend will give me some time to go through it and enjoy.

Finally got mine. Only read so far most of Part 1 of Shooter. I think I'll take my time on the book and read it over the next few weeks. I love all the commissioned Swan work.

All in all, this has been a very good year for Legion. I mean, hey, besides everything else, we got Legion World too!

In December, maybe I can remember to start a "Legion Year in Review" topic or Poll for commentary and comparisons on events and publications.

Remember when many of us were wondering Coipel's departure was a momentum killing blow?

I tried six local stores on the phone, hoping to bring my custom their way, and one finally had it. Four copies of it. (As of Wednesday, three were left at Amazing Comics & Cards (amazingcomics@att.net) in eastern Long Beach, for those looking in the L.A. area.)

Simply far too, shall we say, amazing for words. In sampling the interviews, I'm already shocked that Glen Cadigan was able to so greatly vary the questions he asked. And to anticipate so much. He even asked James Sherman about one of my visual contributions (a scan of the art I own from Dawnstar's "Who's Who in the DCU" entry) months before I sent it to Glen.

The book design -- unfortunately, uncredited -- also makes the most out of including hundreds of items of variously shaped artworks and logos. And of flowing text around them in a highly readable manner. The typography is excellent. I feared too much would be squeezed into too small a physical package, but it was not.

Much more to be read this weekend, my current health permitting (also why I'm playing catch-up on threads this morning).

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