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Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....

I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - PALADIN (eff YEAH!!!)
XVI- Quislet, Esq.
XVII - Invisible Brainiac
XVIII - none
XIX - none
XX - Quislet, Esq.
XXI - thoth lad
XXII - Ann Hebistand
XXIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXV - Invisible Brainiac
XXVI - Quislet, Esq.
XXVII - thoth lad
XXVIII - Quislet, Esq.
XXIX - Eryk Davis Ester
XXX - Invisible Brainiac
XXXI - Invisible Brainiac
XXXII - Ann Hebistand
XXXIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIV - Invisible Brainiac
XXXV - none
XXXVI - thoth lad
XXXVII - Ann Hebistand
XXXVIII - Invisible Brainiac
XXXIX - thoth Lad
XL - Invisible Brainiac
XLI - thoth lad
XLII - Ann Hebistand
XLIII - thoth lad
XLIV - thoth lad
XLV - Ann Hebistand

Return of the living thread.

I've liked Dan O'Bannon films even when I had no idea of his involvement. Return of the Living Dead being one of them. I would have got that from the video store based on the garish cover.

What's your opinion of "Lifeforce," Thoth?

(Co-written by Dan O'Bannon & Don Jakoby.)

I’m not Thoth, but I haven’t read it. I’ll look it up

It's not a book, it's a movie.

The film does take a lot from it's source book, Colin Wilson's Space Vampires. IIRC Wilson wrote this and two others, including The Mind Parasites, as a challenge to write some Lovecraftian stories after he criticised some work in that area.Wilson would also write the Welsh based Return of the Lloigor, as a nod to Lovecraft.

It's worth mentioning the book, as some of the clunkier bits in the film are a result of keeping parts that should be dropped and adding some parts that don't quite work. The ESA scientist, who happens to get a giant sword delivered to him in the film, being just one example. The pointless masochism of a nurse in the film for another.

But overall, it's a film that I really like. It has a layered approach, with each part of the film revealing something else. Simultaneously getting to the core, while increasing in scope. Nigel Kneale's (frequently pinched) Quatermass stories have the same structure, and it's no coincidence here.

So Dan O'Bannon, as with Alien, had a great time mining the sci-fi/horror sources he loved, for a property that already had a foot firmly in both genres. Hooper got a massive budget from Cannon, who were looking to establish themselves. Good effects people with a plot that keeps getting bigger. The Director's Cut is well worth a watch.

Time to cut some peppers and chorizo for dinner

Thanks for the review, Thoth. I found it insightful and thoughtful.

Hooper brought a lot of energy to the project, and made the best use of the big budget and seasoned effects crew. It's almost as if he was out to prove his Poltergeist naysayers wrong, and he did.

I have seen the Director's Cut, and I like it even better than the theatrical version. I especially appreciate the extra scenes of the space mission.

Poltergeist is an original character in Harbi’s fanfic!

I admire Harbi's writing talent and her ability to expand the Legion mythos by taking it to places never before imagined.

And what a large cast she juggles well too

Are we ready for the return of....

And, of course, decades later, Marvel came up with a Juggler ripoff. His name was Oddball.

I nicknamed my Natu in Pokemon Silver "Oddball", once upon a time.

Green Lantern Soranik Natu was not a favorite of mine at first, but I came around to liking her.

The mid-noughties Green Lantern stories don't hold up well, but they did introduce several characters with potential.

I always found the GL Corps very fascinating! such a lot of cool GLs!

I agree, although I often feel like the GLC is still waiting for a talented creative team to come along and do the definitive version.

While Alan Moore's back ups in Tales of the GLC were good, and have been mined for all they are worth by DC, he was just one of a number of writers, and not the first, to provide interesting stories for that feature.

Oh, I agree that there have been good GL writers over the years (John Broome, who created a lot of the concepts introduced in the Silver Age, is my personal favorite,) but there's never been a writer-artist team who have wholly satisfied me (I adore Gil Kane, who drew all of the Broome scripts, but his style wasn't yet fully formed.)

To give a more relevant example, the original GLC miniseries from 1981 has a great story diminished by ugly Joe Staton art.

Both Harbi and razsolo have done some interesting things with the GL Corps in their respective fics.

Yes. I also love what Harbi has done with the Shazam mythos in her fics.

and the Legion Academy!

What I admire most about Harbi, and this also applies to Raz, and GL, and Omni, and you yourself, Ibby, is how each of you has managed to contain their stories within one single continuity. I wish I could do that, but after all these years, I'm still on a quest for a continuity I don't get tired of after one or two storylines.

Thank you, Ann, I appreciate that! I think one thing we all have in common, is we chose continuities that we liked, and just kicked off from a certain point in time - and kept going onwards.

I'm sure you will be able to do the same, once you do find a continuity that suits you