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?
Posted by Sir Tim Drake on :
Tellus?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Organus. Tenzil's Eyeful Ethel apparition. Mordru's zombies.
Posted by Kid Quislet on :
A must: Brain Globes
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.
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Great contributions! Thank you.
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.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The Every-Ten-Years Monster is pretty creepy...
Posted by Matthew E on :
The creepiest one of them all might be one who was actually a pretty nice guy:
Queeg, of the Science Asteroid.
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Written by Trommium in the Shooter thread:
"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."
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
IT'S ALIVE!!!
I've called it. October is Monster Month in the Museum at Bits.
PLEASE create something for this, whether it's written or a visual submission.
We GOTTA keep the Museum alive!!!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
What was that weird tracking animal in Tinya's Legion Worlds story? That should be in there, somehow.
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
I always thought Dvron was pretty creepy (those ginger kids scare me...)
Posted by Star Boy on :
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?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Posted by Blacula on :
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.
Posted by cleome on :
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.
Posted by Candle on :
Good points.
And Gates has already been featured on a horror movie poster on one of the reboot covers!
Cannus Lamprey Nightwind Gas Girl the double floating fishies Comet Queen Variable Lad - regular and powered up (yeesh)
Posted by future king on :
I think by far one of the scariest, ugliest get-ups in today's comics has to be the hideous costume that Tyroc is sporting these days. I know I'm scared every time I have to look at it! Peeeee-uuuoooook!!
[ November 01, 2010, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: future king ]
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
When I saw this thread title, I was like, "Ah, how awesome!" Then I saw that I started it!
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