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Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I thought this was the all-KLAATU thread!

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Originally posted by MLLASH:
Kantuu Can Do!

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Shoot, Lashie! I was gonna quip about "going far with a Kantuu Attitude", butcha beat me to the pun...
 

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Posted by deanlegion on :
 
I recall adequate art from Jimmy Janes and terrible inking by Frank Chiaramonte. The same team that brought us Captain Frake. Even though this is pretty much a criticsm (sp?) I still think back on the whole Janes era fondly, because I was in my early teens, feeling fairly lonely, but loving the Legion. AWWWW..... (Is there an AWWWW graemlin?) Naturally, Lash, you make me want to dig out the issues and re-read them and do some sketches of characters from the story, namely Kantuu himself...
 

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Posted by Pov on :
 
Make sure you do the female starship pilot from the second part of the Kantuu story, Dean!

I liked what was probably a throwaway story point, that the fighter pilots were all women because their reflexes were faster than their male counterparts, who were relegsated to air traffic control.
 

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Posted by deanlegion on :
 
Wow, for some reason, the writing felt like some kind of trying-too-hard Marvel comic. Even though Kantuu accidentallly smashed the portable mining town and swatted a few fighter ships, he never really seemed like a big threat. This story definitely didn't rate two issues. The art was only adequate as I mentioned above. I can't help but wonder if the story could have been more memorable/enjoyable if it had better art, like by Jim Sherman or someone.

I have to acknowledge Pov's comment about the female pilot, Tage. She was just harassing the heck out of the sensitive, wispy Rin! I mean, yeah, he is kind of a girly man, but she was relentless! She made cracks about his "male intuition" how mining too much has "colored his thinking", he's "moody" and how bad it would be to let an "emotional psychic" like him handle the Kantuu crisis. Yeah, the women have better reflexes, and the men are better at the command base. I think Tage was right about Rin though, because while the other guys are sayig stuff like "Launch squadron two!" Rin's back there thinking, "Lord help them! That creature is so huge-" Tage felt pretty bad when Rin got squashed, though.

I have sketches coming...
 

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Posted by deanlegion on :
 
And what's up with Rin's blueish greenish hair?
 

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Posted by deanlegion on :
 
Uh, I don't mean to pick on the guy.

Don't hate-celebrate! It's Rin Day!

How bout a "Lord Help Them!" smiley featuring the teal haired Rin?
 

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[ September 23, 2007, 07:34 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by MLLASH on :
 
bah.
 

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Posted by Sketch Lad on :
 
:rin:
 

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Posted by Sketch Lad on :
 
:lord help them:
 

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Posted by Sketch Lad on :
 
bah.
 

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Posted by MLLASH on :
 
Click HERE to see Kantuu's only cover appearance!

He's a genie in a bottle... you gotta rub him the right way!
 

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Posted by Fat Cramer on :
 
Kantuu certainly could have been revived for a later story, given the sloppy manner in which he and his fellow djinns were disposed of. Luornu commanded him to return to his bottle "till the end of time" and all the bottles were put "safely on the moon".

A few options: the Time Trapper messes with the end of time and out comes Kantuu and his pals. The Magic Wars release them, overpowering the command given by Lu. When the moon blew up, they could at least have been displaced, rather than destroyed - to be discovered and let loose by someone else.
 

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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
I wonder if Starlight/Starbright were connected to the djinns...
 

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Posted by MLLASH on :
 
I retract my "bah" above... Kantuu is now smiley-ized! (see previous page)


I wonder if Tage originally hailed from Taltar...?
 

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Posted by reckless on :
 
You have to love the cover. "The Thing in the Jar" is quite possibly the stupidest tag line ever. It's like the cover editor forgot to put any text on the cover and then, about 5 minutes before the deadline, realized he needed something dramatic. Hmmm . . . okay, Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel are back. We can put that down. And then there's that genie thing . . . and genies come from jars . . . so, I know, "The Thing in the Jar." That sounds scary.

The only thing stupider would have been to write "The Guy from the Lamp."
 

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Posted by Superboy-Supergirl on :
 
I DREAM OF JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
 

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Posted by lowercase mllash on :
 
was kinda cute
 

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