Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Opine re: the Nines!

I took it to be a deliberate thumb print. Mind you, I missed the meteor on the other cover. Not that it would have made a difference.

I have no idea what you two are talking about. Have you been lingering overlong in the Mayavale threads by any chance?

...but if you're on(to) something other than mist, IR takes place on some moon colony so that's a Space-Yeti! (And by extension the crab from The Comics? The plot thickens!)

25. HELLBLAZER vs. THE SPECTRE




26. MAZIE vs. DATE WITH DEBBI




27. THE SPIRIT vs. MAGILLA GORILLA




28. LEAVE IT TO BINKY vs. WILBUR

25. Spectre
It wins for the inking on the cloak. I don't believe Constantine got through that shelf without spilling things. Many hands make book work. It seems that it's the little people who have to fear the Spectre. Which is why Lex Luthor does so well in the DCU.

26. Debbi
Mazie loses points for having Eavesdropping Lad on the front cover. The dark logo backdrop is a bit gloomy. Gag slightly better, if not very believable on Debbi.

27. Magilla Gorilla
An old, but sure gag wins the day. Over in the Spirit, the perfect Halloween title, it's unlikely that the house would be right in the middle of the graveyard. It's as likely as him looking up the definition of kissing.

28. Leave it to Binky
Your standard Teenage fantasy. Well, one that would get past the code. Gloomy background again, but it has that 'Mazing Man feel to it, which is getting double points this week. Oh, you can tell by the posture that Wilbur is asleep. The two are too close to be fooled.

25. Hellblazer - prefer the eerie lighting, prefer bookshelves over giant Spectre. You know how some libraries charge you for the newest best sellers? Constantine has a way around that.

26. Debbi - Mazie is just a bit too stupid unless she's just setting up that guy. Debbi characters have more interesting clothes.

27.Spirit - Darwyn Cooke! And the kid's eyes look a little nervous, just that first sense that something's wrong. (I hadn't thought about the peculiarity of a house in a graveyard. In David Baldacci's Camel Club series, the lead character lives in a graveyard (he's the caretaker), although his cottage isn't in the middle of the site.)

28. Binky - for its historical interest. Does anyone join the French Legion anymore - or read Beau Geste?

ha, ha, ha, ha priceless...um...this is the French Legion site isn't it... oh crumbs... there's been a terrible mix up on google translate...

Will intrepid Private thoth be able to navigate his way across the internet desert to the proper website? or will his sidekick Devlin O'asis put a camel in the woiks? - Read on faithful reader, read on...

Hang a left at Fort Zinderneuf and you'll get to Weisinger Plaza.

Pvt thoth: Thanks Cramer....oh... and we're home. Good directions...but we've 20 pages to fill...
Devlin O'asis (mutters): ...and we didn't get to visit the Oasis El Nooki…
Pvt thoth: And they said I'd get my just deserts, with the emphasis on deserts!
Devlin O'asis: Mine's a strawberry mousse, Sir.
Pvt thoth: No Devlin... not desserts...

...and how they laughed until they realised it was brought on by heat stroke...

The Spirit's HQ is indeed in Wildwood Cemetery

That Darwyn Cooke Spirit series is *so* good....

29. ACTION COMICS vs. JACK ARMSTRONG




30. PICTURE NEWS vs. CRIME AND JUSTICE




31. BIG TOWN vs. MOD WHEELS




32. COOKIE vs. FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

29. Jack Armstrong - more action being chased by other drivers than crashing through a wooden post. Is the Mystery of the Midgets about a car race?

30. Crime and Justice - the art's a bit rough, but I like the paintbrushed "Justice" over "Crime". There's a lot happening: gas station on fire, odd-coloured car careening over the cliff, police arriving from the other direction.

31. Mod wheels - because it's mod and the explosion is spectacular. The cartoony faces clash with the realism of the cover, though.

32. Cookie - If he's the funniest kid in town, it must be a dull town. Still, points for positive attitude. On Freckles, why is June so angry? And why does she have her name written all over her sweater?

29.Jack Armstrong
What idiot put a fence on the track on AC? Superman, jealous at not getting a cover spot. I'm going with Jack due to the other cars, the gradient fill in the the background and Crime Lab being the strip of most interest.

30. Picture news
The car on crime and justice has gone off the slope at an odd angle. Its passed a burning house with two oblivious guards in front of it. And the car looks like a dinky toy. Picture News has crooks being caught in the power of... The Green Mitten. Sadly, the bikini reference was just about bombs.

31. Big Town
The car on mod wheels is the best thing about either cover. But I'm not sure what has blown up or why. Big Town is about to show us that Steve Mason is an ancestor of Ron Karr.

32. Cookie
They look cute in a lucky to be alive sort of way. By the time I figured out what June's expression meant I could have read an issue of Cookie.

21. FLARE. I thought she was a Dazzler knockoff at first (I thought the console was a keyboard) and was somewhat charmed by that for some reason. The cityscape on the other is pretty nice, but the rest is pretty Whitesnake video and I guess I'm not in the market for that today.

22. CHASE. C.O.W.L. almost there, just not quite prime time. Chase just OK for me but polished.

23. IVAR, TIMEWALKER. The "texture" on IR gives you a little something different, but it's not enough for me. Over on I,T the watch face is missing...replaced by space? Starfield! Limited palette is great.

24. LOVELORN. The ATR sentiment is A+ but the art is lacking. Not only the figures, but look at how the Lovelorn indica and color choices give you a whole package. Plus Lovelorn is nucking futs.

25. SPECTRE! Hellblazer is fine. Spectre is LIKE DAMN.

26. DATE WITH DEBBI. Dammit Mazie, that's your name on cover, you should have the best line. Although the best line available is lousy, it's still better than the fakey setup question. Debbi, in the meantime, has her shit together!

27. Aw man! The Spirit is beautiful. And check out the little details like the mid-century lamp cluster, the drink with straw, the ghoul's red tie, and Ebony turning the page. But Magilla looks like such a chill Gorilla I wonder if the ghost will be able to spook him. I gotta know. MAGILLA GORILLA.

28. BINKY. But I'm probably going to flick him on the head when I pass by.

33. NIGHT THRASHER vs. SHADE THE CHANGING MAN




34. POISON ELVES vs. QUEEN & COUNTRY




35. ROCKET RACCOON vs. WEIRD MYSTERY TALES




36. WARLOCK vs. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES

33. Night Thrasher
Despite being issue 9, both covers feature number eights; Shade on the throat and Thrasher just above the T in the logo. The text on Shade is pretentious and loses to Thrasher. Although it has its Image trappings, it has a better twisty background monster.

34. Poison Elves
For simplicity of design in a cover with a lot of nice detail. There's a laser cannon pretending to be a camera on the roof of the building in Queen & Country (boy, did that series tank as it went)

35. Weird Mystery
Rocket is all Evil Dead. But only Weird Mystery gives us a Legion candidate in Summoner Lad!

36. Legion
Marvel numbering makes the Premiere issue #9. Warlock has weird musculature. I guess that explains his expression and his space quest to get rid of it. On Legion Laurel is stealing Comet Queen's role. The space hoop she's flying through seems a bit needless. But she does get the win for a recognisable facial expression. This is the basic cover of Legion #9. My copy has the enhanced feature of a biscuit stain obtained by tea dunking gone wrong on it.

29. ACTION COMICS. I don't know what shit they're busting up, but it's a whole package with that logo. The Jack Armstrong logo drags on its action!

30. The sequence of event on C&J doesn't track. (And is that a green cap -- possibly nelly -- flying off the driver?) PICTURE NEWS although the coloring needs to be fixed!

31. BIG TOWN. The 2 different Mod Wheels styles don't go.

32. COOKIE. I can not for the life of me figure out if there is a joke on the Freckles cover. June has a mega-personalized sweater (I presume this was a fad at the time) and the car has a bunch of sayings (which I know was a fad for a while) but what's the connection? Maybe it's just that June wants to hang with Freckles but his wheels are also no-go and their other friends won't beat feet? Okay, I like Cookie even more now!

33. SHADE. LOOK I'M EXTREME vs LOOK I'M WEIRD. Well, now you know where I vote with my fake internet dollars. (I kinda like the lines of the Shade artwork but that title/text, yikes.)

34. QUEEN AND COUNTRY. I don't understand the gravity of the situation on PE. Are those rocks floating? Would a person (or poisonous elf) be able to bear its weight standing like that? It's not wildly off, but doesn't read right to me. Q&C pretty quietly dangerous. You have to look closely to see the gun one is toting. Or the security camera.

35. ROCKET RACCOON. Blue-purple-pink package!

36. LSH. While the other has some good point, it also has that 70s Marvel too-many-cover-lines problem. And it also looks like a long bathroom line is another problem being experienced by the Warlock fella. LAUREL knows how to work a promo holo!

37. DEMO vs. COLONIA




38. TALES OF THE BEANWORLD vs. GOD IS DEAD




39. AMETHYST vs. VENUS




40. BLACK PANTHER vs. DEATHLOK

41. DOLL MAN vs. SUPERMAN




42. BATMAN vs. AZRAEL




43. FREEDOM FIGHTERS vs. BLUE BEETLE




44. ARCHIE AND ME vs. BULLWINKLE AND ROCKY

33. Shade - fully weird cover; Thrasher's normal look clashes with the background.

34. Poison Elves - quiet and haunting, the relaxed pose with the blood-dripping sword. Q & C looks desolate, but static, despite the breeze blowing up sand.

35. Weird Mystery - That kid looks so happy that the beast is mangling Dad amid that pastoral scene that it's super-creepy. I'm sure Rocket can handle Groot gone mad and the post-apocalypse.

36. Legion - Andromeda looks carefree and happy; Warlock looks constipated. He's gripping that cloak in agony. It's just uncomfortable.

37. Demo - Colonia spells trouble, but the hard to read expressions on Demo create more interest.

38. Beanworld - silly but God is Dead is boring.

39. Venus - more going on and I find the art better.

40. Black Panther - peaceful and beautiful.

41. Doll Man - chasing a headless man is more interesting. But what is it with superheroes and busting through walls?

42. Batman - simple and dated, but the yellow overwhelms Azrael.

43. Blue Beetle - real sense of desolation.

44. Bullwinkle - the Riverdale sweater gag is too corny. Bullwinkle is supposed to be corny, so that works.

37. Colonia
There's a bird perched on that shelf with a story that must be told! Later, I noticed Adam Ant has wandered in. "Demo is ruling my entire universe," claims someone on its cover. Hyperbole = lost points for me. Two people breaking up while sitting at a table is incredibly dull. Haven't they seen any of the Romance covers Teeds puts on here?!

38. Beanworld
Beanworld taps into something really primal here. Look at the love the little being has. It's climbed a mountain to either claim the gift, celebrate it or both. Nice palette too. The "God is dead" part of #8's cover was so wide it wouldn't fit out a comic shop door. I'm glad they've reigned in the breathless shock value of the title to only half the cover this time. >yawn<

39. Venus
Amethyst is just too creepy for woids. Besides, all the woids have been taken to fit into the Venus cover. It's a book length feature, and most of the words in that book are on the cover. Inside, it's just puzzles and games!

40. Deathlok
The Panther cover is very fetching. But are the birds leaving someone who has died? Are they forming someone who was once close to the Panther? I'm trusting in the certain gravity of the falling wall over in Deathlok. The head and shoulders over the logo should have been dropped for this one.

41. Doll Man
Are you about to commit a knife crime?! Then you've probably lost your head?! Relax and read a Doll Man comic instead. There's lots to like on both. The simpler, but classic Superman. The Doll Man poised for leaping. The odd villain (a runaway toy?). But Doll Man "lashes into action" and that's always going to win round here.

42. Batman
Like 41. there's two styles here. Azrael adds superfluous detail. It seems that he's facing Doctor Light rather than someone with a searchlight. Classic Batman wins. The first draft of that cover had Robin behind Batman, so I think this version works better.

43. Blue Beetle
Withering Werthams! The youth of our nation has been turned against our four color heroes! I can't help but think The Ray should have spotted the trouble from above. Was this not some sort of unofficial Marvel crossover? Beetle wins because of the nice sunset, reinforcing the image of the end of the superheroes. Kord's slumped shoulders are an improvement over Firestorm's from 13.

44. Archie & Me
A real struggle to find anything appealing on either. The fourth wall breaking smirk on the Archie one gets a small victory.

On Freckles: The kid spends all his time on the car. He's even writes little thoughts, reminders and mementoes on it. Sick of being ignored, June figures that if she writes little reminders, of who she is on herself, the kid will think of her as kindly as he does the car.

37. COLONIA I suppose.

38. BEANWORLD. GID has nice tone-on-tone, but what information, emotion, or mood is being imparted here?

39. Goddess damn it, VENUS, look at what I said to Mazie. There's all kind of stuff happening and you -- the titular heroine -- are doing kind of NOTHING. You -- or rather, your comic -- only win due to the beautiful art, including the planets/stars in the white sky.

40. BLACK PANTHER! Simple yet not. Light blue + black + white = YES.

41. DOLL MAN. Headless Tuxedo Stabby Man is hilarious!

42. AZRAEL. YEAH I SAID IT. What's up with that Batman cover, anyway? It seems to be catching B&R by surprise, almost like THEY were the criminals. They didn't really go that way in the beginning, did they? Presenting them as anything other than heroic?

43. BLUE BEETLE. Stronger line. Freedom Fighters...sure, they happen to be strolling down the alley RIGHT NOW. Too bad it's day, that "caught by spotlight" might be appropriate there.

44. BULLWINKLE AND ROCKY. Ha!!

45. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO vs. SUPERFRIENDS




46. AZTEC ACE vs. ADVENTURES OF THE FLY




47. SPACE WAR vs. BLACK MAGICK




48. THE FILTH vs. LUCIFER

49. CAPTAIN FLIGHT COMICS vs. AIR ACE




50. FIGHTIN' AIR FORCE vs. CONTACT COMICS




51. AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES vs. BLACK TIDE




52. SEA DEVILS vs. BULLETMAN