hobbies: flogging, carving exact replicas of friends and enemies, scheming against cretinous males.
favorite Legionnaires: the female ones.
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From: Taltar | Registered: Sep 2003
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Wow, Thora posted a Who's Who profile! Way to put forth even more of an effort!
Not only will this win you over some votes, the new gentler you is making a great impression on us LWers.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Brandon 23 Brooklyn, NY I work in an office, and I'm finishing up my last few credits of art school (BFA, Fine Arts [Painting]).
Let me just say I love what you guy call the "Archie Legion" derisively. I thought it was good for what it was, and it kept true to the spirit of the book for pretty much it's entire history up to the end of the Magic Wars. Admittedly, it fell off after a while (I guess it started slowly around Dark Circle), and Roger Stern did seem to be slacking off somehow (of course we have high expectations from his earlier work, especially on Action Comics). Anyway I was sad to see it go, especially since we had TWO TITLES!!! Some people just had it out for it from the beginning though.
I first met the Legion as a kid in John Byrne's Superman. I missed the second part in Action Comics, though. I bought every #0 issue that came out, and I knew that Waid was writing Legion at the time, but despite the ravings in WIZARD I didn't pick it up again until the Superboy crossover (I only got the Superboy issue, but later tracked down the Legion books). After that I picked up Legionnaires #36 on the shelf, bought it, and was hooked! Valor, Ultra Boy, and Element Lad became my three favorite male Legionnaires. It's since shifted slightly, I've come to love Gates as you can see. By the Emerald Eye saga it was my favorite book and I could barely make it through the mere two weeks between the two books. I was on LSH-L and the racdl Newsgroup site up until I went to college. BTW, anyone from that list migrate here? Everyone uses codenames now. Is the Legion of Super-Gamblers still in action?
I'll say my favorites are as follows in terms of Eras and creators:
Levitz (until it trailed off) most of the Reboot Shooter Superboy & The LSH Adventures era (dispite the lack of characterization... they're fun!) The Legion SW6 Legionnaires Legion Lost and Worlds (I liked the M'Onel issue, but the Spark issue was my second least favorite of the postboot, after LL #12.) TMK pre-Levitz, pre-300 v.2... especially when Joe Staton and Jim Janes were drawing
Waid is one of my favorite writers, and I fully expect to love the new series. I hope Gates, XS, and Kinetix make it in. I also like Peyer, what's he doing these days. It was his idea to make the 30th Century vegetarian. Waid did the same for Superman in birthright... do you think he'll do it in Legion? It makes sense for the 30th Century in my opinion. While I didn't like the tone of the 5YG stories as much, I have to say that Tom and Mary really know (knew) the Legionnaires' individual personalities. I know Waid will give us lots of characterization. I hope the pacing doesn't suck like it did in the reboot from Mordru on. The pacing and suspense was really working well before that.
Favorite Legion artists (no particular order):
Chris Batista (bring him back for the spin-off/2nd title!) Jeff Moy Phil Moy Lee Moder (his work hit a stride at a certain point) Mike Grell Steve Lightle Adam Hughes Curt Swan Keith Giffen (Mahlsteadt inks circa v.3 300's) Stuart Immonen Chris Sprouse Colleen Doran Alan Davis Scott Kolins
Incidentally, Gates and I read the same books! Well, that's all for me. Long Live the Legion of Super-Activists! Anything else that you want to share!
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Name: Dave Age: 35 Where I Live: Tyler TX What I do: Center Manager for largest Home Medical Company in the nation. ( ooh ahh)
Legion Info: Started reading the Legion way back.. Have always loved the concept and can not imagine the comic world with out one. Have always related to Timberwolf, but love all the characters.
Other things: I love to read all types of books. Have really gotten hooked on Peter David's Star Trek New Frontier and Sir Apropos of Nothing series ( he does it all) I enjoy horror films and really good slap stick..like the Naked Gun movies..
Glad you've decided to post. I swear there's a "Welcome" thread for you somewhere buried under the pages and pages of posts. Things move pretty quick around here, so don't be afraid to jump in and get your feet wet. We're a pretty good bunch one you get to know us!
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From: The Loser Cave | Registered: Jul 2003
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My name's Hollis. I live in Georgia (A suburb of Atlanta, actually). I work at a theatre to pay the bills (and by bills I mean Waffle House and Cigarettes) and fund my college payments. I live in a dream world, and I'm just fine with it. I've been doing creative stuff like comics and cartoons and videogames since I was young. I love being social in crowds, and always loved being the weirdo. I used to go to this old comic store near a fabric shop my mom loved and happened upon a copy of the Legion of Superheroes. I liked them, and the old guy at the shop (I loved that guy. he always smelled like old newsprint and mothballs. The smell of a quality comic shop, in my opinon ) gave me a copy of Legionnaires issue one on the house. I was hooked. I loved the art, the characters, _everything_. I started digging, and soon I collected every Legion comic I could find. I loved the dynamic, the setting, the drama, the loss (I was so young, so I was always choked up when I saw a shot of all the Dead Legionnaire statues. I know its stupid, but it's also childhood ) and what can I say...been a legion fan since. Other interests...well I love rpg games, be they PbEM, IRC, console, or otherwise. I love the improvisational creativity involved and all that. Movies? Uh, Boondock Saints, Igby Goes Down, and pretty much any Zombie flick Music? Uhm, I pretty much live by the Barenaked Ladies, but I love all music, from rap to country. Books? Clockwork Orange, anything by Douglas Adams. Heh, that's pretty much it. Sorry bout the huge post. I'm sure that's more than anyone wanted to know about anyone, heh...
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From: The Evil Anti-Moon!!!! | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote:Originally posted by bIZARRO nO.1: mE AM HATE YOU ALL SO MUCH, ME NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ABOUT ME!
If he really was a bizarro, he'd have followed trhat line with the information he just said he wouldn't share.
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada | Registered: Dec 2003
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Yay! I'm me again!! The crossover is out and the Legion-we-knew are Lost again. I don't know what the official positions of the board adminiatrators are but I've decided it was time to "navigate" back through whatever that funky-colored-special-effect was and see if I can locate Britonopolis and LMBP-HQ !!
Anybody wanna hold hands?
________________________________ Goodbye:
Superyellow Yellow Flash Kid Aquayellow Yellowbeast Boy Yellow Hawk Wonder Yellow and a very fond farewell to Captain Yellow Jr.
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Name: Benjamin Ronning Age: 20 (Born January 10,1984) Where you live: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada What you do: Eat, Sleep, Post... repeat
Legion Info: I started reading Legion comics with the old Adventure Comics my mom bought as a kid/teen. But really didn't get into buying Legion until the DnA stories.
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