Roll Call
0 Legionnaires (), 37 Murran Spies, and 2 Spider Guild Agents.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Time-Scope
Wheel of Fortune / Hangman Season 3
by stile86 - 06/10/25 08:09 PM
Legionnaire Mastermind
by stile86 - 06/10/25 08:08 PM
What Turns you Off!!!!
by rickshaw1 - 06/10/25 03:06 PM
Share more completely random things!
by rickshaw1 - 06/10/25 03:05 PM
Bits Of (Random) Legionnaire Business...
by Korbal - 06/10/25 02:31 PM
The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5
by Chaim Mattis Keller - 06/10/25 01:07 PM
reading Legion from the beginning
by Eryk Davis Ester - 06/10/25 09:31 AM
Omnicom
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Page 3 of 3 1 2 3
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,284
L
Wanderer
Wanderer
L Offline
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,284
Set, I am also more of a classic Legion fan. I love the stuff before the Legion got rebooted and continuity became something that could be retroactively rewritten.

Set #1044885 06/09/25 03:39 PM
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,443
G
Legionnaire!
Legionnaire!
G Offline
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,443
Originally Posted by Set
As more of a classic Legion fan, I've always found some of the Reboot characters hard to get a grip on, but Candi has, at least in the books I've read, had the most compelling and fun characterization. Particularly on a team so full of people having drama, she was a breath of fresh air, just sort of cheering up the room with her sunny disposition and welcoming nature (which made me, as a reader, feel welcomed!).

I was annoyed at her death, to not even advance another characters story, but to instead destroy that character! (Kind of the opposite of fridging, in that the lady doesn't die to advance the dude's story, but to instead tear him down and show how unredeemably bad he was now).

On the other hand, regarding Candi's upbeat and pleasant personality being a breath of fresh air, Gates' curmudgeonry was also fun, if the exact opposite and not at all a breath of fresh air! smile

As much as I love Kid Quantum 2, I feel like she didn't get nearly as much personality or development as Candi or Gates (or Shikari or Kinetix or XS, who also seemed to get a bit of focus, as opposed to characters like GEAR and Thunder, who did not, that I saw).

These are really good points Set. Candi (once they finally settled on a personality for her during the Emerald War story) was a good character to have around due to her disposition, and it was also good to have a character with a totally different body type on the team, and a female at that. Jasmin didn't start getting much development until Legion Lost, when she became the star of the DnA era - and it was a good thing because she needed it, and she is still the first PoC to lead the team!

And now that you mention it - Johns basically played Kinetix the same way, just offing her to show how bad Superboy Prime was.


Interested in the Post-Zero Hour Reboot Legion? Check out:

The Reboot Legion Timeline

Fan Fiction: The Legion of Super-Heroes v4.1 (continuing the reboot from issue 126!) on LW or here (external)

Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 86,197
Unseen, not unheard
Unseen, not unheard
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 86,197
Originally Posted by Gaseous Lad
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
Jan's fate: at least on my first read, it held. It made sense in a way, if I don't think too hard about it. And it sure was sad...

Ibby, you touched on the challenge with this book - its a great first read due to the dramatic beats. A re-read is fun because you get to see the little details that are the clues for the Saturn Girl reveal, but it also exposes a lot of problems with the book. For example, Jan is more of a chemist than a transdimensional astrophysicist, and I don't care how long he had to live to figure out how to get the equations right without a computer in one try. That's a Brainiac 5 thing.

yeah, this bit - with Jan figuring out how to re-enter normal space - always gave me pause. Jan was never before shown to have the kind of scientific knowledge to make these complicated calculations!

Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 86,197
Unseen, not unheard
Unseen, not unheard
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 86,197
And I do find it a shame, that a female character (Candi) with such a different body type (and some angst about her looks!), was one of the casualties of Legion Lost!

Page 3 of 3 1 2 3

Link Copied to Clipboard
Hyperpath Console
Comment Guidelines: Do post respectful and insightful comments. Don't flame, hate, spam.
Forum Statistics
Forums14
Topics21,128
Posts1,054,160
Legionnaires1,733
Most Online53,886
Jan 7th, 2024
Newest Legionnaires
Dick Grayson's PTSD, Joe, Boy Kid Lad, Anonymous Girl, Mimi
1,733 Registered Legionniares
Today's Birthdays
Emergency Backup Cos
Random Holo-Vids
Member Spotlight
SLK
SLK
Michigan
Posts: 72
Joined: August 2005
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 8.0.0