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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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Normally, I wouldn't go for the homage over the original, but the cover to #78 does a better job of showing how tense the situation really is. So, it.
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A tough one, but I'd go with the Adventure cover ...
forget how much I hated Vi's reboot uniform ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?
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From: The waters off eastern Long Island | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: The universe dying not enough drama for you?
And I love the colors on the Davis cover. The subtle blending in the violets and oranges is wonderful.
quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: forget how much I hated Vi's reboot uniform ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?
AND I was going to say how much I loved Vi's reboot outfit. I loved all of them, really. Individual but with team like basics and young and fun. sigh
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quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: .
About the ADVENTURE cover-- what in space is underneath their feet? Did the LSH upside-down spaceship land in bad '60's carpet factory?
I've always thought that was shadow, but that doesn't really make sense, since the Legionnaires shadows can be seen on top of it.
The floor in Adventure looks like metal tiles with a raised design place in alternate directions for better footing/friction. To me.
quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: forget how much I hated Vi's reboot uniform ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?
AND I was going to say how much I loved Vi's reboot outfit. I loved all of them, really. Individual but with team like basics and young and fun. sigh
I take it back, Shady ... I could never disagree with you
though I could have done without the flower in her hair ... what next? A hula skirt?
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From: The waters off eastern Long Island | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: forget how much I hated Vi's reboot uniform ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?
AND I was going to say how much I loved Vi's reboot outfit. I loved all of them, really. Individual but with team like basics and young and fun. sigh
I take it back, Shady ... I could never disagree with you
though I could have done without the flower in her hair ... what next? A hula skirt?
Silly.
But that IS what young girls do, ya know. They love flowers in their hair. And the reboot Legion was very young. I imagine in a year or so, she would have dropped the flower for a pullback or braid or something.
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From: Salem, Oregon USA | Registered: Aug 2003
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Adventure #352(?) is one of my favourite Legion covers precisely because the Legion aren't squaring off against the Fatal Five in a fight. Hasn't that cover idea been SO done?
This cover concept is completely unique and memorable IMO and the story elements it hints at (who are these new characters? heroes? villains? why do the Legion need to find them? how are they going to find them? will they be in danger splitting up?) make me want to read the issue a lot more than the prospect of yet-another fight would (not that I don't like a good fight in comics).
From: Australia | Registered: Dec 2003
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Adventure. i agonized over this one. i like them both very much.
don't like super boy or projectra's hair. but it has the Emerald Empress twice!
love alan davis yet, i've seen these poses way too many times from him. even though they are filled with tension and action. seems like they are hauling way too much nass though! why do they look like they are bolting haha
and hated the 'empress'. did she even have powers .... and Tharok's tank top is a big no no.
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
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Actually, Sarya didn't have any powers either. Everything she had came from the Eye, didn't it?
The reboot version was just a psycho BEFORE she got the Eye and liked doing the killing parts on her own rather than having the Eye do the job, I think.
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From: Salem, Oregon USA | Registered: Aug 2003
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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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quote:Originally posted by Candle: Actually, Sarya didn't have any powers either. Everything she had came from the Eye, didn't it?
The reboot version was just a psycho BEFORE she got the Eye and liked doing the killing parts on her own rather than having the Eye do the job, I think.
I think at one point she showed some eye-like energy radiating from her hands with which she attacked and knocked out either Sun Boy or Saturn Girl, I forget which, and she said something to the affect that some residual power from the eye remains in her for a short time after she utilizes it within close proximity to it at that time. My recollection is cloudy at best, but you get the gist of it. She never ever pulled that trick again after that though.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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#78 for me. I just plain like the style better.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: ... and the fact that "Empress," a psycho with no powers, was "created" by her home world to battle the Sun Eater ... seems like a fair fight ... was she supposed to sneak up behind the Sun Eater and slit its throat?
But wasn't that part of the scam by Chu? There wasn't a Sun-Eater in the reboot, it was all just a ploy to get the Legion and the Five together so the F5 could get rid of them. Now why the Legion didn't question Empress's involvement is another matter (though they kinda did with the Espionage Squad one step ahead of Chu already).
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