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Pal Lad is like the Jimmy Olsen of the re-reading thread, showing up just enough to maintain his LMB membership!

Where's Tinya? Forgotten again, I guess.

It was sort of funny that the strongest Legionnaire among the baby group was the one crying for Mommy.

That barrette annoyed me throughout this story. She didn't have it in the initial panels, then it was there, non-functional, more like a decorative comb.

I guess we could include Dream Girl in the Legion Rejecters Club; they may have required her to leave, but she resigned of her own free will.

How carefully did she read that Constitution? She cited different passages for the same offense, making false charges against a Legionnaire.

Rann Antar - rejected from the Legion, returned years later to destroy Dawnstar with his secret lead feather power. Untold.

The atomic war planet and the Iron Curtain of Time were interesting. Does anyone talk about the Iron Curtain anymore, or is it being forgotten? I wonder what term they would use if writing today.

Dream Girl tied in with the Time Trapper story - that would have been a great line to follow.

I do like Hamilton's various planets and how he has assigned great scientific knowledge to Naltor and expertise in bio sciences to Daxam.

So THAT'S why her wings fell off! Brilliant, FC!

I wondered about that, but then decided that she may be actually be citing two different passages in the Constitution, since the first time she is citing the rule against making false charges, while the second time she is citing the Legionnaires responsibility to punish the offender.

I don't know why, but I did find the de-aged Legionnaires hilarious! Little Garth bullying poor Violet and Chuck and Jo just having fun with their powers.

For some reaosn I always had the impression that Nura had antennae.

YES!

The first Teen Titans comic I ever read with Lilith in it, she said something about her antenna and I thought she meant it literally. I kept looking for a panel that showed it and never came across it. I was a mere waif at the time though and had only read Legion comics up until then. I guess I was used to Chameleon Boy and thought, hey! one of the Titans has antennae too!

Speaking of antennae, what purpose did Mantis's antennae serve and where did they come from? Isn't she just a normal Earth human with advanced training from the priests of Pama? I never did find any reference to them in the text of any of the comics I ever saw her in.

I just hadn't analyzed my impression as much as you have, Pal just saw your earlier post on the subject now!

I wonder if that's why Mysa was given antennae in her later appearances - as a shout out to the original Nura barette?