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I love the Brain-Globes! Respect them, or they will crush you!
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I just have to recall my introduction to Grimbor and I start smirking just like I did twenty-plus years ago. Incidentally, I don't have my Legion comics at home, sadly. This meant that when I tried to explain to mr_cleome that the character existed in a "normal," as opposed to underground, comic, he refused to believe me until Cracked.com backed me up.
Frankly, I'm almost as dumbfounded that they got Grimbor into the cartoon, though at least there they left out Charma, and tactfully avoided referring to him as "Bondage Master."
[snickers, chokes on beer]
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Shouldn't that be part of the thread where we get to rename the Legionnaires ? Hey, why not ? [snerk]
Oh, and though I did have a few comics from the "Superboy and..." era (at one time), it makes me sad that I only know this gem via the internets.
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Cosmic Boy's bustier costume. Is there any practical purpose behind this, other than titillating female (and sometimes male) readers?
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I can honestly say that back when I first saw it, I hardly took any notice at all of Cos' bustier outfit. Given how many guys it apparently disturbs and unsettles, however, I have since retconned it into "the gift that keeps on giving." [snerk]
Undergear catalogs for all the het-boys in the room ! I'm buying !
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I rather enjoyed Cos' 70s disco costume. Besides, I'd think that it would disturb the het boys a lot less than Colossal Boy's bondage/SM getup. All that was missing from that one was a portable sling and a St. Andrew's Cross.
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Colossal Boy's Cockrum-designed costume was, I thought, a classic, although it did seem a bit busy for someone whose only power was to become a giant.
I never understood Grell's redesign of the costume with the bare arms and legs. Why keep the headpiece if you're going to bare more? It's like going out in hot weather wearing shorts and a long-sleeved shirt.
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quote:Originally posted by Wonder Lad: All that was missing from that one was a portable sling and a St. Andrew's Cross.
Well, that's what fansites are for. [snerk]
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I never understood Grell's redesign of the costume with the bare arms and legs. Why keep the headpiece if you're going to bare more? It's like going out in hot weather wearing shorts and a long-sleeved shirt.
Well, that's my point. The goal is not to be practical. The goal is to make every character in every issue of every comic into subjects for MST3K's classic rendition of "Toobular Boobular Joy." That level of impracticality is built into pretty much every super-female's costume in the entire history of the genre. So if I have to roll my eyes at this tradition, I think that everybody else should also have to. Misery (or at least exasperation) loves company, y'know. [grin]
As a fun exercise, you could also emulate that somewhat-infamous Superman cover that's somewhere on the Superdickery page;The one where Superman is freaking out because all of a sudden all his friends are the other gender-- but in the same costume. At least one comment I saw mentioned that if you look at Wonder Woman's costume on a guy, you get a clear image of just how stupid it is. [blasmphemy]Which is true. It is stupid, and it should have been shopped years ago. It is kind of hard to shout credibly about female liberation when you're the only one in the room still running around dressed like a 1940's pinup.[/blasphemy]
(One of my favorite things about the Justice Lords ep of the JLA cartoon was the redesigned Wonder Woman, but maybe I'm just weird.)
Try imagining how a male would look running around in a costume, like, say, that retro negligee' thing Ross' Shady is wearing now. If your answer is, "A guy would look like an idiot," maybe the truth is that it's idiotic no matter whose wearing it.
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I liked all the space-pinup costumes. Honestly, I can't even think of one I didn't like. Besides, who the hell knows what fashion is going to look like 1000 years into the future. I'm sure that 40 years ago, people didn't have a clue when teens today would be dressing like (hell, I'm not *that* old and I shudder at some of the things I see some of them wearing). Of course, we won't talk about how little fabric has been involved in some of the Halloween costumes I've worn in the past.
As an aside: cleome, you sound like a boy after my own heart
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well, some men's fashions would look ridiculous(sp?) on women. Who wants to see a woman dressed like Ben Franklin? Not me. I very enjoy the fact that women are beautiful. Clothes that are cut to fit...work.
I frankly think Grell either forgot to tell the colorist what the "skin" tone portion should have been colored, or that he watched Rocky Horror Picture Show and decided to see what he could get past the censors, and was surprised. Kinda like Whats his name from the Gong show and the girls with lollipops.
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