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You could be right, Reboot, although the fact that Wildfire's speech continues onto the last page (where we see the LSH as they were when they won the war) suggests otherwise to me.
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I liked the reference to William S. Burroughs in Wildfire's origin. My favourite author and favourite Legionnaire linked up in a throwaway line like that was fun.
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I agree, rouge. The idea of Wildfire having a "literary" name creates all sorts of associations and expectations that may (or may not) have been intentional on the part of the creators.
As someone who is familiar with Burroughs work, perhaps you can identify some of those connections between Wildfire and Burroughs' writings?
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(2) The twist where they were supposed to fall in love with each other - thought it was pretty cool
(3) Seeing moments that were to come - continued tradition of knowing tidbits of the Legion's future, it made me think Blok, Quislet, and others could be joining one day and it was still early enough in the reboot where things hadn't been screwed up that bad, that it was reassuring that we'd see long lost character, so we could sit back, enjoy the ride and hope for new stories with old favorites.
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I'm not familiar with William S. Burroughs either. Always thought Burroughs came from Edgar Rice Burroughs as a tribute to the "John Carter from Mars" stories.
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