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As October approaches, I'm thinking of scary beings that have appeared in Legion comics. I'm campaigning to have them spotlighted in the upcoming Museum of Legion Arts exhibit over at Bits.
Off the top of my head:
Devil Fish Hate Face Validus The Hag Hagga Furball Jungle King's Legion of Monsters
okay... I need to look through the books...
Anyone else able to think of any off the top of their heads?
I also love the Resource Raiders (that gray matter thing again).
Mordru's vampire pal Vykros (sp?) would be an appropriate Halloween addition as well.
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I always think it's fun to go back and look at the fairly non-scary looking scary monsters from the Adventure Era and do sketches of them as they might appear in a movie today.
"We must give additional credit to Siegel and Hamilton for most of the bizarre monsters and weird alien creatures that wandered around the early Silver Age landscape.
Edmond Hamilton created The Legion of Super-Monsters, the Super-Moby Dick of Space, Camelephants, space-rocs, the Morvennian Fear-Beast and the Maw creature that killed Beast Boy, among others.
Siegel dreamed up the Brain-Globes of Rambat, Megalaro, the Negative Creature, the first Lightning Beasts, the Flame Beast that revived Sun Boy's powers, the Ultra-Energy Beast that gave Ultra Boy his powers (iirc, not sure), and many others."
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There's also quite a few Legionnaires that would have been right at home in some of those classic 50s horror flicks, with a slight touch of tweaking...
I'm thinking:
Blok
Brainiac V
Catspaw
Chameleon
Colossal Boy
Computo
Double-Header
Ferro Lad
Gates
Gear
Infectious Lass
Insect Queen
Invisible Kid
Matter-Eater Lad
Monstress
Night Girl
Phantom Girl
Porcupine Pete
Saturn Girl
Sensor
Shadow Lass
Spider Girl
Tellus
Timber Wolf
White Witch
Any others that are just on the edge of monstrification?
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Tangleweb would be a good Reboot version of a monster. Space Spiders have always creeped me out for some reason. And he did kill a Legionnaire.
I'd like to see the Legion take on more monsters and creepy space crawlies actually. Let's see some survival horror in the Legion books. It would be a nice change of pace to the standard foes (ie robots, generic armies headed by some megalomaniacal villain, etc.) that they usually face.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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You could argue that Element Lad and Mon-El might also be at home in a supernatural tale.
Element Lad because he was essentially the "gravekeeper" for his entire planet.
Mon-El because he spent a thousand years in a place dominated by people who were neither living nor dead.
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