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Two other things of note from the interview: the baseball game in Adventure #12 was a riff on an old Superboy story, The One Man Baseball Team, which appeared in the Adventure issue that featured the Beast Boy story.
Re: R.J. Brande, Paul says "I ripped off his speech pattern years ago from a great Pol Anderson character, Nicholas van Rijn, wonderful science fiction character... a futuristic Scandinavian rich baron of space, who alternated between being surrounded by serving girls and outsmarting aliens, outsmarting other civilizations and making gazillions of dollars. Brande doesn't do the serving girls because it's the wrong species for him."
I haven't read Anderson's books with the van Rijn character, but here's some of what Wikipedia has on him:
Nicholas van Rijn (2376 to c. 2500 A.D.) is a fictional character who plays the central role in the first half of Poul Anderson's Technic History. He is a flamboyant capitalist adventurer, and is Dutch, apparently a resident of Djakarta. His speech is bombastic and heavily laced with unconventional constructs, puns, oaths, and words from various Northern European languages, in particular Dutch, German, and possibly Danish. Although he frequently employs malapropisms such as "Angular-Saxon" or "hunky-dinghy," they are often so devious or apropos that it is difficult to believe they are unintentional. Anderson seems to have enjoyed writing this sort of dialog, and some of his more minor characters have used a similar patois.
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Quite honestly I though that it was speculated somewhere that he is trying to depict a French- Canadian accent (after all, his name is a French one).
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I like that he's giving Matter-Eater Lad a page in #6 after seeing our reaction to the one line write-off.
And I'm excited to get to vote for Legion leader. I wasn't a Legion reader when the previous reader elections were held, so I'm glad I get to be a part of the new ones.
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As much as I don't appreciate his one-line writeoff of Tenzil, I **LOVE** that he listened to fans who were upset by that (I wasn't the only one!!) and is making it right.
I think it pays to sometimes follow the oldschool-fanboy-pleasing-isms of Geoff Johns. (At one time, back in the day, Geoff seemed to be writing comics just for ME...)
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Levitz always gives a good interview!
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Excuse me but can you please direct me to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles?
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You notice how Paul avoids, as much as he can, any subject related to Green Lantern? It make me wonder if this is something he supports or was just given orders to oversee.
The idea of a 31st century group of Lanterns is not a new one ... the recently cancelled cartoon/comic beat them to the punch with that one.
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