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Kill This Thread XXX

The following rules were established by Kent Shakespeare at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:

The rules:

1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!

2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and response nses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.

3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.

4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.


Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....

I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - PALADIN (eff YEAH!!!)
XVI- Quislet, Esq.
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - none
XIX - none
XX - Quislet, Esq.
XXI - thoth lad
XXII - Ann Hebistand
XXIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXV - Invisible Brainiac
XXVI - Quislet, Esq.
XXVII - thoth lad
XXVIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIX - Eryk Davis Ester

I like the subtitle of this one, "Luornu's Thing." Preboot Lu is a brunette, like me. And Bendisboot Lu is adorable:

New Lu is my favorite redesign!

She does look quite interesting although I imagine the espionage side of her powers (splitting to make people think she is somewhere else) won't work so well if the three all look so distinctive. Also I really want to know if she still can merge and split or is she just some sort of three-body person now.

She said that the three bodies share knowledge and experience whenever they integrate, so it seems that she does still merge. I suspect Bendis is wanting to emphasize that aspect of her rather than the usefulness for espionage.

I hope Bendis comes up with some creative, cool uses of Lu's power. Most of Lu's greatest moments came from her creativity and relatability.

Writing her power is a challenge. Even the great Adventure Era Legion writer Edmund Hamilton admitted that he struggled.

But when done well, it's beautiful.

PS glad you like the subtitle, Fanfie. It seemed fitting!

Chemical King?s power really stumped a lot of writers.

Even harder to write than Element Lad's powers.

DnA turning Element Lad into an insane pseudo-god in Legion Lost v.1 was very controversial, but I have never had a problem with it. LLv1 is my favorite Legion multi-parter of all time.

I feel the same, Fanfie. I was sad for Element Lad, but it was done in a realistic way. And DnA were careful to explain why it happened, and showed that it could have happened to anyone basically (after all that Jan went through).

I didn?t like it. First they get trapped light years from home and they put their greatest thinker Brainiac 5 in stasis. Next, IIRC, Element Lad was also made immortal. I don?t see anything that would make me think of him as immortal.

To be fair, Quis, there was a good reason for putting Brainy and company in stasis. Element Lad had to do it, because they were falling into the rift. Element Lad only survived because he had transmuted himself into tarnium, the one element that could survive in there. And he couldn't be sure that doing the same to the others would let them survive.

That was also the explanation for how he became immortal. Entering the rift changed his physiology.

True but once through the rift why not take Brainy out of stasis

Because the rift had thrown them outside of the universe, and Jan couldn't be sure that they would survive.

First, the Legion went through the rift, and were thrown outside the universe. Then, they re-entered the universe, ending up in the Kwai-verse. It was only at that point when it became safe to take everyone out of stasis.

Eh, I can tolerate plot holes if the story has plenty of good qualities to compensate, which I feel Legion Lost does.

There's also that If the pacing and narrative work, I can forgive a few plot holes too!

And the story beats, too! That's something that I don't see enough of in modern comic books. There's that certain extra spice lacking in the scripts.

A lot of them do seem terribly by-the-numbers. Not very satisfying.

N3V3R US3 NUMB3RS AS L3TT3RS

Never utilize a lengthy word when a diminutive one will suffice

Or know your Elastic Lads from your Shrinking Violets.

I think Elastica's second (and final) album, "The Menace," is an unappreciated gem. And I don't even like their self-titled debut that much.

"Numb3rs" was an TV crime drama where an FBI agent and his Mathematician brother used mathematics to solve crime, a bit like "Bones". Quite fun if you are a geeky nerd like me. I gave a DVD of it to my daughter for Christmas one year because she has been doing her Bachelor of Science Honours in Mathematics.